Built a freelancing app to hire in under 60 seconds — looking for feedback on growth

Real feedback rather than encouragement: 10,000 downloads alongside 60 onboarded freelancers suggests most of those downloads were people looking for work, not people looking to hire. That points at an acquisition-surface problem before a growth problem - the store listing, screenshots and first screen probably read as "find gigs", so a potential client bounces before signup. Worth checking what your store page looks like to someone who has never heard of you and wants to hire, not to a freelancer.

The number I would want before spending anything on client acquisition: of the clients who hired once, how many hired a second time? A marketplace that cannot produce a second hire has a retention problem wearing a demand costume, and paid acquisition only makes that more expensive. If the repeat rate is healthy, buying clients becomes rational because each one pays back over months.

One angle from my own side: I build a billable-time tracker for independents, and the thing freelancers raise with me constantly is proof of what they actually did. So "chat, hire, pay in 60 seconds" makes me ask what the client sees for their money afterwards. Speed is a good hook, but what brings a client back is usually the record, not the speed.

So: what is your repeat-hire rate so far, and do you know how the clients you do have actually found you?

That’s solid traction, especially with zero marketing 👀
Curious — with 10k downloads, what kind of feedback are you getting from freelancers vs clients?
I’ve seen in marketplaces like this, growth bottlenecks are often already visible in user conversations (onboarding friction, trust issues, unclear value, etc.), but it’s hard to piece together when it’s coming from different places.
Have you noticed any repeating patterns yet on why clients aren’t posting jobs?