It’s your last day to move out, you’re exhausted, and the buyer who just paid $800 for your couch wants it delivered. You can’t lift it alone. You text friends, post online—nothing. No help shows up. Buyer leaves. Deal dead.

And you think, “I would’ve paid someone $50 just to help for 15 minutes.” But no one was available when you needed them.

Now imagine if local help was just one tap away. A neighbor, a student, someone nearby looking to earn—pinged in seconds. No friction. No middlemen.

There are people out there who want quick, honest gigs—but they’re lost in spammy listings, chasing bad leads.

Craigslist and Facebook once connected people with community-driven simplicity. Then big platforms added fees, friction, and facelessness.

GigMarket is bringing the soul back to local work—with smart, human-first tech that just works.

Our Origin Story

“When I first landed in the U.S. nearly 20 years ago, I didn’t know a soul. Craigslist became my lifeline—my first bike, my first gig, my first apartment. It shaped how I survived here.”

— Doug, Founder

Years later, while flipping furniture out of 15 packed U-Haul units, Doug hit a wall. Customers wanted to buy heavy furniture and he had no one around to help. That’s when he thought “what if I could just say what I needed, drop a pin, and someone shows up within 15 minutes?”

And GigMarket was born.

The Problem Isn’t the Help. It’s How We Find It.

We don’t have a shortage of people who need flexible work. And we don’t have a shortage of people who need help with quick jobs.

There’s no simple, trustworthy, instant way to connect those two things.

Craigslist used to come close. Take it from our founder who arrived in the U.S. 20 years ago with no money, no job, no connections. Craigslist helped him buy his first $40 bike, find his first apartment, and land his first gig. It was scrappy and clunky, but it worked!

Over the years, platforms like TaskRabbit, ANGI, and others have replaced it. But, they have gotten bloated with fees, corporate overhead, and friction.

They lost the heart of the marketplace model. That feeling of, “Hey, neighbor. Need a hand?

GigMarket is the Solution ✅

GigMarket is the modern-day marketplace built on the old-school values of community, trust, and hustle. It’s Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace, reimagined. We’re getting back to the lovable simplicity of old platforms with 2025 tech under our belts.

We’re a community-first marketplace where people can:

1. Get local help instantly
2. Pay fairly and directly
3. Work on their own terms

We’re built for 2 groups – everyday people who want fast, affordable help and skilled local workers who want consistent income without chasing listings.

Just real people helping real people on a platform that makes it instant, safe, and seamless. We’re bringing back the community, one gig at a time.

Why Now?

The gig economy isn’t just growing—it’s reshaping how America works. Over 60 million people now earn income through gig work, and the market is on track to surpass $1 trillion by the end of the decade.

Meanwhile:

1. Households spend over $500B a year on everyday services—like moving, hauling, repairs, and cleaning
2. Urban renters and homeowners are constantly posting last-minute needs—but can’t find reliable, local help fast
3. Workers want flexibility and cash gigs, but they’re stuck chasing leads across outdated platforms

There’s no fast, trusted, modern marketplace built for these hyperlocal, everyday jobs.

We’re building the infrastructure that unlocks the real potential of the gig economy—right in your neighborhood.

What We’ve Built (With No VC & No Corporate Backing)

In just 2 years, we’ve bootstrapped our way up and grown with our community.

1. We’ve reached 25,000+ users in the Washington DC metro area
2. Moved $10 million+ in gig job volume
3. Generated $10,000+ in Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR)
4. Acquired users for just $0.5

Future projections are not guaranteed.

Most importantly, we’ve proven that people still want simplicity, speed, and trust. And they’ll pay for it.

How It Works:

For customers, it’s as simple as posting a task and getting matched with a nearby, rated worker. Then, they pay through the app with secure, transparent pricing. There’s no ghosting and no complicated scheduling.

For workers, a $50 a month subscription gives them unlimited access to local gigs. Our system uses smart matching to make sure that they get jobs that relate to them without bidding or chasing.

Our platform handles the chaos through instant matches, trust scoring, predictive pricing, and filtering.

What Makes Us Different?

GigMarket combines the trust and simplicity of old-school marketplaces with today’s smart tech. But here’s what makes it even more game-changing:

1. AI is Coming – We’ve spent 2 years collecting real, raw gig data from actual users. With your help, we’ll build the GigMarket AI Engine—matching workers, pricing jobs, and boosting trust at scale.
2. No middlemen. Just a smart tool. Just results – We streamline the transaction and empower both sides.
3. It feels local (because it is local)– Real people. Real neighborhoods. Real work.

Revenue

At scale, GigMarket could becomes a $100M+ revenue business across America in a short time (not guaranteed) driven by three powerful streams:

Here’s how our bottom-up sizing works:

At 50K users per region:

1. Transaction Fees: $140K–$160K/month
2. Worker Subscriptions: $20K/month in recurring revenue
3. Local Advertising: $14K–$16K/month
4. Target Users: 3M gig workers by 2027 - 2028
5. Serviceable Users per City: Estimated Average 50,000+ active users per major metro
6. Revenue per region (based on 50k users per region): ~$185k monthly (from subscriptions, commissions, ads)
7. Total Addressable Revenue: With just 3M users across 45-50 cities, GigMarket could generate a minimum of ~ $100M Captured ARR (or $600M Total GMV), representing only a fraction of the national market

GigMarket is positioned at the heart of a massive and fast-growing opportunity. The Global gig economy is surging toward $582 billion by the end of 2025, growing at 17% annually—yet no single platform has claimed the crown. The space is wide open for a trusted, human-centered leader to emerge.

What our users say about us:

What We’re Raising and Why

We’re kicking off with a $200K raise as Phase 1 of a $2M plan to complete the GigMarket Engine and build the next generation of trusted, local marketplaces. Where would this money go?

This round gets us to 50,000 users in the D.C. region, and additional 25k more users in other cities, fully deployed smart matching AI, and launching in 1-2 new cities. And ultimately bring $75K monthly recurring revenue. We’re also redesigning the entire app experience to make it smoother, safer, and more community-driven—giving users a better way to connect, transact, and get things done.

From there, we scale to 10 then 25+ metros using a proven formula and the revenue engines to back it.

Why We’re Raising on WeFunder

Community is at the center of all that we do. We didn’t want to raise from VCs who would pressure us to maximize fees or strip down the product to extract value. That’s not the future we want to build.

We believe in platforms that serve people. That’s why we're asking our customers, supporters, neighbors, and community to be our investors.

Imagine a World Where…

1. You tap your phone and trusted local help arrives – quickly.
2. College kids, single moms, and skilled workers earn $50-$500 a day!
3. AI handles matching, pricing, trust-scoring, and safety automatically
4. Every city has its own thriving GigMarket community.

That’s the world we’re building. And it starts here, with you.

We’re Already Moving Fast. Join Us.

We’re not pitching an idea. We’re scaling a product that’s already working. The momentum is real, the numbers are real, and the vision is clear.

There’s a massive hole in the labor economy. We’re filling it with the first truly modern infrastructure for local work.

If we succeed? We become the backbone of how America gets stuff done.

So the only question is: will you be a part of the early believers who helped make it happen?

Invest in GigMarket today and support our mission to bring community back so you never have to go without an extra helping hand again.