For investors
We’re building same-day local labor, for the pain my brother lived for fifteen years.
Rush Gigs is a real-time marketplace for immediate local work. The app is live in New England. We’re in our first-users phase. This page is the honest one — no patent claims, no fabricated comparables, no “closing soon.”
The problem we know firsthand
My brother TJ has owned a construction company for fifteen years. In that time he’s personally hired hundreds of laborers for short-term and same-day jobs. The same problems show up every week:
- ·A worker doesn’t show up — and the only way to find out is to wait.
- ·He needs two more hands by lunchtime — and Craigslist is the best tool available.
- ·Workers who’d happily take a four-hour gig have no way to signal “I’m free right now.”
- ·Indeed, Upwork, ZipRecruiter are built for full-time hiring cycles, not for needing help today.
That’s the gap. Rush Gigs is the tool TJ wishes he’d had, built by his brother, who’s spent twenty years building consumer software in Massachusetts.
What we built
A two-sided mobile app, live on iOS and Android. The mechanics that matter:
Available-now flag
Workers tap one button to go live. Employers only see workers who are actually around and ready to start.
Auto-expiring jobs
Listings close when the work is done or when the start time passes. The map is always current — no zombie postings.
Map, not feed
See nearby workers and jobs as pins. Drag a radius slider. No endless scroll, no “you might also like.”
Hire in chat
No applications, no résumés, no recruiter middle layer. Tap a pin, message, agree on time and price, get to work.
Why us
Milad — engineering
Twenty years building consumer and platform software in Massachusetts. Most recently at Meta. Handles the apps, the marketplace backend, the real-time matching layer. Solo engineer for now — the app exists because he wrote it.
TJ — operator + domain
Owned a construction company for fifteen-plus years. Hired hundreds of laborers for same-day gigs. Knows the workflows, the language, the trust signals, and the failure modes. Handles customer acquisition and product feedback.
Two-person team. Capital-efficient. Tech expertise plus lived domain expertise — both rare individually, almost never paired.
Stage and ask
- Product
- Live on iOS and Android.
- Stage
- Pre-traction. First-users phase.
- Geography
- New England. Most activity in Massachusetts.
- Team
- Two co-founders. No outside engineers yet.
- Raising
- Seed.
- Use of funds
- Local marketing in New England, customer acquisition on the contractor side, and one or two engineering hires when marketplace liquidity warrants it.
- What we won’t promise
- Traction we don’t have, a TAM number without a citation, or a closing date we can’t guarantee.
If this fits your thesis
Drop a note through the contact form. We’ll reply within one business day with the deck and a time for a thirty-minute call.