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summary
hour.ly is an hourly-job matching engine for the gig economy that starts with a food and hospitality beachhead, built as an MVP by one developer and marketed locally in NYC. it aggregates Craigslist and Indeed plus its own profiles, adds photos and background checks, charges employers a $15/month subscription, and reports 800–1,000 visits per radio spot with roughly 25% conversion on those ads. claim: focused vertical + aggregation drives supply so demand follows.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Hourly and gig economy intro
- 1:30Craigslist failures explained
- 4:15Bootstrapping two-sided marketplace
- 6:43Startup husband-wife dynamics
- 9:09Craigslist aggregation bootstrapping
- 11:16Why now for hourly networks
- 13:42Scaling Hourly like Craigslist
