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Sumit Nirmal

Connecting the next ...ย โ€ขย 3m

Ever been ghosted after delivering real work? In my final year at IIT Kharagpur, I was already working on the idea of PeerHire. Then something happened that gave me the momentum to push harder. Through YCโ€™s co-founder matching platform, I met someone who said his friend needed a website and offered me $1000 to build it. I knew there was a chance it could be a scam, but I decided to take it as a real-world test. I built the website exactly how he wanted. His friend liked it and told me to do some revisions. I revised it and gave him another version. After that, he started ghosting me. The excuse was: โ€œmy friend isnโ€™t interested anymore.โ€ Of course, the payment never came. It wasnโ€™t the money that bothered me. It was the fact that I had invested my most valuable resource โ€” time โ€” only to realize again how fragile trust is in freelancing. This incident didnโ€™t start PeerHire, but it gave me conviction. It reminded me why a decentralized talent marketplace that enforces trust, payments, and fairness needs to exist. Thatโ€™s the journey Iโ€™m on with PeerHire.

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