Built a freelancing app to hire in under 60 seconds — looking for feedback on growth
Hey everyone, 👋
I’m Dinaagaren, a solo founder.
I recently built GiniGigs, a mobile-first freelancing app designed to make hiring fast and simple.
What it does:
- Hire freelancers in ~60 seconds
- No proposals — just chat → hire → pay
- Pre-vetted international freelancers
- Built for quick, real-time hiring
Current traction:
- 10,000+ app downloads
- 60 freelancers onboarded
- 4.8★ app rating
- Zero marketing spend so far
Tech stack: Flutter, Node.js, MongoDB
Challenge:
I now have freelancers on the platform, but growing the client side (people posting jobs) is the hard part.
I’d really appreciate feedback from founders or builders here:
What would you focus on next to attract more clients?
App: https://shorturl.at/cRu9m
https://shorturl.at/pM7l3
Thanks for reading 🙏
Thanks for sharing this. I’m also learning how sales partnerships and appointment setting work for software/AI services, so this was helpful.
agree once the starting list is right, the rest becomes much easier. Ive seen that when the targets are already close to the problem, even light context is enough to make outreach feel relevant. the heavy research usually becomes necessary only when the audience itself is too broad, which is where most of the time gets burned.
The research step is what separates the 1-2% reply rates from 10%+. Most people treat it as a manual-per-prospect task, which means it gets skipped or half-done.
The pattern that works: systematize the information gathering (what does this company actually sell, what signals are happening for them right now) and use that to generate the hook. The email writing part is the easy step — it's getting the context fast enough to make each email worth writing that's the actual bottleneck.
The research step is what separates the 1-2% reply rates from 10%+. Most people treat it as a manual-per-prospect task, which means it gets skipped or half-done.
The pattern that works: systematize the information gathering (what does this company actually sell, what signals are happening for them right now) and use that to generate the hook. The email writing part is the easy step — it's getting the context fast enough to make each email worth writing that's the actual bottleneck.
The hardest thing about B2B is that you're often selling to someone who didn't budget for your category. They need the result you provide but never planned to pay for it.
The products that win here usually create a new budget line (by being categorically new) or steal from existing budget by making the ROI comparison obvious. Which of those are you trying to do?
The research step before any outreach is where most of the leverage is. A tight ICP with deep context on each target outperforms broad lists with generic copy. The channel rarely fails - the targeting does.
The research step is what separates the 1-2% reply rates from 10%+. Most people treat it as a manual-per-prospect task, which means it gets skipped or half-done.
The pattern that works: systematize the information gathering (what does this company actually sell, what signals are happening for them right now) and use that to generate the hook. The email writing part is the easy step — it's getting the context fast enough to make each email worth writing that's the actual bottleneck.