Reassurance

Inspiration

Not having steady employment is a difficult situation to be in. As a team, we've all felt the struggle of being a 1099 contractor or working for a service like Uber, Lyft, TaskRabbit, etc. Illness, injuries, or being let go while not having the safety net with unemployment or worker's compensation traditionally offered to W2's can be devastating.

What it does

Theoretically acting as a pass through bank like Simple, we can take a fee from all deposits as a premium. By doing so, can provide insurance on the average wage earned and payout based on days accrued as a 1/4 of days of deposits made.

How I built it

Using the Capital One API as a basis for what a "bank" could be. We added a layer with Elixir on top of the API itself to provide for the calculations for the platform itself. We used React Native for the customer to interact with the bank.

Challenges I ran into

Before we came to this idea, we constantly pivoted until late Saturday night which gave us very little time to develop. We had to work through the product viability which included legal and logistical hurdles we had to cross.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We pivoted 7 times and managed to build something despite only having a few hours left.

What we learned

The viability of an idea is beyond just technology. The contractor/"gig economy" is a growing, vulnerable segment of the workforce that's not slowing down.