http://needgap.com Find your customers by the problem you are solving for them. Wed, 19 Jul 2023 23:59:00 +0000 A lot of people who freelance already use too many tools in the stack. e.g. a lot of freelancers use Freshbooks, Asana, Toggl, Jira, Calend.ly to manage their business. They have either to integrate it or manually rewrite information between apps. Not to mention some features missing like simply tracking invoices sent/invoices paid.<div><div><br></div><div>Also, many people right now are quitting their jobs and moving to freelance, and they are worried about how to choose the right tools, which won't be very expensive (for example they were working in enterprise segment, and they had all the tools paid by their company - now they have to buy it on their own).<br></div><div><div><br></div><div>There are number of solutions which lacks some of the features of "all-in-one" stack, or are too expensive to buy.</div></div></div> 3 points posted by tomw /problems/359-typical-freelancer-needs-to-use-too-many-tools-freelancer-productivity 359 Fri, 11 Feb 2022 00:07:00 +0000 One of the biggest pain point for someone in the gig economy, is to know the value of our time; How much should I charge my clients for the work?<br><br><div>For someone making an entry into the freelance work, there might not be much options than to undercut the competition in pricing. But once we have gained some reputation for our work, Calculating fair market price for our effort is hard.</div><div><br></div><div>I feel there is a need gap for tools which help freelancers calculate the fair price for their time.<br></div> 5 points posted by Yogesh Basu /problems/220-how-much-should-i-charge-for-my-freelance-work-freelancer-calculator 220 Sat, 17 Apr 2021 02:52:00 +0000 <div>Developing IoT&nbsp; or other hardware products at scale as a small startup or as a solopreneur is hard as <b>building hardware involves various nuances such as design, development, supply-chain, logistics, manufacturing, quality control etc</b>.</div><div><br></div><div>The <a href="https://startuptoolchain.com/#freelancer">freelancer ecosystem for software</a> is robust enough that a minimum viable software product could be built using Gig workers, But assessing a gig worker for a hardware product is not as easy because unlike a software not two hardware product is exactly same and the <b>freelancer marketplaces lack specific features to address issues with employing the gig worker for hardware development</b>.</div><div><br></div><div>I think there's a need-gap for a marketplace which enables end-to-end hardware product development using gig workers.<br></div> 3 points posted by Abishek Muthian /problems/324-finding-makers-for-our-product-hardware-freelancer 324 Fri, 05 Nov 2021 06:07:00 +0000 Covid 19 has caused a lot of unemployment worldwide. <div><br></div><div>Although there are many freelancer apps out there, most of them operate based on a commission model system. By charging many poor freelancers for <b>every</b> single work/project they do on those platforms.<br></div><div><br></div><div>If Netflix has been so successful, by delivering extensive and diverse content, a freelancer app might succeed as well. Using similarly the same business model. <br></div><div><br></div><div><b>On this app</b>: Freelancers pay a monthly fee and they can generate as much work as they can, without being ripped off on every single job they do by those bloody commissions. </div><div><br></div><div>I will like to see some thoughts on the matter. Thanks !</div> 1 points posted by [email protected] /problems/150-monthly-payment-freelancer-app-freelancer-flatfee 150 Sat, 22 Aug 2020 18:48:00 +0000