Suitor | Hire Verified Help by the Hour

Suitor is a two-sided marketplace for hiring a verified person by the hour. One side needs a plus-one for a wedding, a second pair of hands on moving day, or company at an appointment. The other side offers exactly that at a rate they set themselves. We designed and built the whole product, from the booking flow to the payout rails, for iOS and Android.

Gig apps cover rides and deliveries, and staffing agencies will not touch a four-hour booking, so people were asking favours or picking strangers off classifieds.

Both roles had to live in one app without turning it into a dating or staffing product.

Trust and money had to be solved together, verified identities, safe meetings, and payment that lands fast.

One app, two roles, post a booking as a Suitor or earn as a Sought, with no second download.

Bookings that carry date, time, location and purpose up front, accepted or declined with one tap.

Identity verification on every profile and an SOS button on every active booking that dials 911 instantly.

Clock-in and clock-out so the bill matches the hours actually worked.

Stripe Connect payouts. The Sought receives 90% within 24 hours, the platform keeps a flat 10%.

In-app chat with optional video messages, plus maps and address search for every meeting point.

Discovery. Defined what the product is not, which shaped every safety and payment decision.

Design. A short onboarding and a booking form that removes the back-and-forth.

Build. Single Flutter codebase, Go backend for profiles, bookings, messaging and clock events, Stripe for payments, Google APIs for location.

Launch. Shipped to the App Store and Google Play in a three-month timeline.

Live on both stores with hiring and earning in one place.

Payments held safely during the event and released within 24 hours of clock-out.

A marketplace where the safety rails and the payment rails are the same rails, built in from day one.