GigRadar.io — Never search for jobs again.
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With some advice given from some expert product builders, I decided to not aim for a crappy MVP in 30 days.
Instead, I decided to launch a nice waiting list and spend time testing and polishing the value proposition for GigRadar.io
Can I release GigRadar in 30 days?
The development stalled for a while why I was focused on other projects like Scalifier.com
Then I ended up in a private entrepreneurial mastermind group where we did some goal setting.
They pushed me to define a very ambitious goal for the next 30 days.
And I agreed to accept the challenge to release a public version of GigRadar by August 7.
I also have to get 50 sign-ups as the target metric.
If I fail, I have to pay a $5,000 penalty to the mastermind group....
It's real. Today is Day #1.
Updates in this tweet thread
This week I rolled out the first working version of GigRadar.io to the list of private testers 🎉
I have been working on the MVP for a little bit over 1 month, and I am impressed with how much value the app brings in it's first release:
- Notify users of new matching gigs from Upwork
- Send periodic digests over email
- Real-time notifications via Slack
It's exciting to have 2 active users already with more to come!
Before answering what GigRadar could be for you, I want to tell what it is for me:
- I way to stop wasting time on browsing job boards for work
- I tool to maximize the effectiveness of my proposals
- A way to track and manage my freelancer marketing activities
- A tool to manage relationships with my freelance clients
It's been over a week that I discovered this amazing community of people building products in public.
Hence, it was decided that GigRadar will now continue to be built in public. I will start sharing on twitter and then let's see if we can do some live sessions as well.
I feel like it is a great way to get early feedback on the product, as well as validate the core idea.
After spending a week on Nusa Penida (an island near Bali, Indonesia), being completely worn out from 2020, depressed about my business and work, and totally disappointed in hired programmers, I realise that maybe it is time that I am confident enough to start something i a complete indie way.
We were working with a freelancer to develop a data collection architecture that will scan Upwork jobs and notify us of the ones that match our search queries. We really needed a tool like this as part of our toolkit 🛠 for Scalifier.
But freelancer moved the kick-off date for the project over and over again, resulting in us missing the deadlines.
After another delay, I said fuck that.
I speak to my partner Max @ Scalifier, and we agree that I take a complete ownership and responsibility for the new B2C product that will allow freelancers to stop manually scanning job boards once and for all.
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Your website doesn't seem to be working.
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Thanks, Barry. It’s not up yet.
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Oh okay got it. You can use the product I'm building in the meantime for free to get a quick landing page up with integrated email signup form so that you can start collecting interested user's emails and engaging with them. It's called LandingPing, just sign up and create your page.
Here's a quick example of a landing page for LandingPing itself: https://www.landingping.com/landingping-hsbTSSXWUt
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Hey! Thanks, I will take a look. Currently working on the app's front end react app. Landing comes a bit later ;)
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