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 🙏
0k downloads with zero spend is a masterclass in organic reach. The '60-second hire' is your wedge to kill Upwork, but as the feedback mentioned, your landing page has to stop sounding like a 'One Stop Shop' and start sounding like a stopwatch.
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Your post says "hire in under 60 seconds." Your landing page says "One Stop Destination to Freelance | Hire Talent | Collaborate." That's the gap right there.
The 60-second claim is your strongest differentiator. It's specific, it's measurable, and it immediately separates you from Upwork/Fiverr where hiring takes days. But the landing page buries it completely. A visitor who lands on your site without reading this post has no idea speed is your thing.
A stronger headline: "Hire a freelancer in 60 seconds. No proposals. No waiting. Just chat, hire, pay."
The current headline could describe any freelancing platform ever built. The rewrite tells me exactly why this one is different.
Two more things:
Your "How It Works" section says "submit proposals" in step 2. But your entire pitch is that you eliminated proposals. The landing page is contradicting your own differentiator.
You have 10K downloads and a 4.8 star rating. That's real traction. But the page shows "10K+ Current Active Users" in small text with no context. Put that front and center with the rating: "10,000+ downloads. 4.8 stars. Rated by real freelancers and clients." That answers "does anyone actually use this?" before the visitor even asks.
Hi Dinaagaren!
10k downloads and 4.8 stars means the product works. The client-side problem is almost always a positioning and landing page problem, not a distribution problem.
One thing I'd look at immediately: when a potential client lands on your page or app store listing, is the first thing they see "hire in 60 seconds" or is it a feature list? The 60-second claim is genuinely differentiated — most hiring takes days. That single number should be the headline everywhere, not buried.
The second thing: "pre-vetted international freelancers" actually works against you for the speed message. Vetting implies process and time. If the whole promise is 60 seconds, every word on the page needs to reinforce that — not introduce doubt.
For client growth specifically: the fastest path is probably finding one category of job that gets posted repeatedly (logo design, quick copy edits, data entry) and owning that niche first. "Hire a freelancer in 60 seconds" is broad. "Get your landing page copy written today" is a reason to open the app right now.