[pjc50]

> there should be a way for people to raise funds quickly in those dark moments when they need it the most

gofundme

> an app that would enable people to raise funds by offering services to their community

Taskrabbit?

> creators can begin receiving orders from their supporters, discuss details, create customized offers, and more. On an agreed-upon date, creators would complete their tasks, the supporter would confirm that the task has been completed, and creators would get paid

Kickstarter, except kickstarter fronts the money which is often necessary for completion.

You have built a two-sided market. This is very difficult, because you need to recruit both sides of the market. And you need to convince them that you can handle money.

> I'm an introvert. I have a small group of friends, I work remotely, and I don't use social media like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or LinkedIn.

Unless you get a co-founder who does, or some sort of marketing lead, your chances of success are zero. Your best hope is to find some sort of community which needs this service and persuade them you can help. I think Kickstarter got started with comics and board games: raising money for printing costs. You will also need to decide what you want to do when the "community" who want to exchange money for "services" is sex workers.

Work out your route to market before writing any code, if you want to make any money.

[krispetek]

> gofundme/Taskrabbit?

Yes, Taskwer has elements of both. As I said in my previous comment, it's different from GoFundMe in a way that campaign creators don't have to ask for donations, instead, they can offer services to people in their community. Taskrabbit gives taskers the ability to offer various tasks and people go there in a search of someone who will perform those tasks. Rating system is very important there and taskers with best rating will get most of the jobs and new members will have much harder time getting them. It takes quite a while to build a reputation and this is what I wanted to avoid with Taskwer. Taskwer is for people who need to raise funds quickly by offering services to their friends, friends of their friends etc, much more similar to GoFundMe in that way.

Thanks for advice on marketing, that is something I don't know how to do but I will have to learn obviously.

[danpalmer]

> Yes, Taskwer has elements of both. As I said in my previous comment, it's different from GoFundMe in a way that campaign creators don't have to ask for donations, instead, they can offer services to people in their community.

There are two clear ways to do this: charity or work. GoFundMe is charity, TaskRabbit/etc is work. Unless you can communicate very clearly why the middle ground of not-charity-not-work is better, I don't think you'll be able to compete with service that have a much clearer proposition.

I've read your post/comment and I don't really understand the difference between this and GoFundMe/TaskRabbit. It seems some users would use it as basically a TaskRabbit replacement, and some would over-value their time because it's sort of a donation platform. If I (and others on this thread) have read a lot of detail about the platform and don't understand the core value, I don't think someone reading a ~10 word advert will on Facebook will, and that's the format you'll need to be able to win on.

I suggest coming up with a very succinct way of pitching the service that makes it obviously better than a job or charity (both of which have many existing solutions). I wish you the best of luck with that.

[danpalmer]

...having read the site a bit more, it seems there's another angle – the project. This doesn't really change my point, but Kickstarter does fund projects (not products), so again I feel that it needs to be explained why Taskwer is better than Kickstarter for a project.

[hluska]

When you start to validate the idea, you’re going to keep hearing “we use in person networks to solve the problem”. I can’t see a good way through that objection while earning revenue. Can you?

[wiedelphine]

Building stuff is always impressive so well done on that. For me it feels a bit like you are saying the audience for this is 'people who want their friends to pay for them to do stuff'? My question would be if I know these people socially, why do I need a website to handle this?

As others have said, I think there are fairly clear mental models for exchanging money: charity or jobs. At the moment, what you seem to be describing is a jobs model, but with added complications such as a campaign and a set end date?. Its not clear me what value I get as a person paying things as a result of these added steps, so why would I use this over another market place?