Tapping Into a $756M Market With Their Piggyback Product

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• We earned $50k+ on UpWork, but spent 100h+ to get those gigs – until today

Ricardo Batista tells the story of how he and his co-founder were fed up spending lots of time pitching gigs on Upwork…

UpWork and others do a bad job at filtering and matching, so we scratched our own itch and built gigsent.com

I like their thought process…

• Here’s a frustration we have with Upwork.
• Upwork is a massive platform (18M freelancers, $756M annual revenue).
• So lots of other people also have this frustration.
• Let’s build a product that eases that frustration.

No idea if their product is good or if it will make much money – that will ultimately depend on their marketing efforts – but the idea seems solid.

Do you use a popular product or service regularly?

Are there any big problems with it?

If so, consider creating a “piggyback” product or service to solve that problem.

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