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GigPostmortem

Why This is an Opportunity

Every freelancer has taken a project that felt profitable but actually wasn't — this scratches a universal itch with a fun, slightly snarky UI. The data compounds over time making it stickier the more projects you log.

Key Pain Points

  • You finish a 3-month project and have zero idea if your effective hourly rate was $120 or $14
  • Scope creep happens gradually so you never realize how much free work you gave away until it's over
  • You forget how painful a client was and accept their next project out of optimism, then regret it immediately
  • Tracking profitability in spreadsheets is something you set up once, use for two weeks, then abandon
Market Opportunity
Freelancer & Agency Project Profitability and Financial Management Software Market
Current Size (2026)
$1.8B
Projected (2036)
$5.6B
CAGR
12.1%
This market is projected to grow 212% over the next 10 years, reaching $5.6B by 2036.

Original Discovery

Freelancers and agencies finish a project, move on, and never figure out if they actually made money on it. GigPostmortem is a dead-simple post-project autopsy tool — plug in your hours, expenses, scope creep moments, and client headaches, and it spits out a brutally honest "was this worth it?" scorecard with a profitability breakdown and a "would you take this client again?" rating you can reference next time they come knocking.

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