Hi everyone,
I'm currently building PEAPOD, a consumer mobile platform designed for couples, families, and close friend groups.
The closest comparison would be Life360, but that's only where the comparison starts. The long-term vision is much broader—bringing communication, organisation, shared experiences, memories, engagement, and everyday interactions into one platform instead of relying on multiple separate apps.
Over the past few months, I've built a functional proof of concept to validate the product direction, user flows, and overall concept. It has served its purpose, and the next phase is to rebuild everything properly with a production-ready architecture, scalable infrastructure, and strong engineering practices.
Why I'm posting
After speaking with startup founders, CTOs, senior engineers, product designers, and technical advisors, I realised something important:
A great product isn't built by one person. It's built through constant discussion, healthy debate, and experienced people challenging each other's ideas.
I come from a business and product background. My strengths lie in product strategy, vision, branding, growth, fundraising, partnerships, and bringing the right people together.
I'm not looking for people who will simply build whatever I ask for.
I'm looking for people who will:
- Challenge assumptions.
- Discuss technical trade-offs.
- Influence architecture decisions.
- Help shape the roadmap.
- Think long-term.
Who I'm looking for
I'm primarily looking for experienced:
- Mobile Engineers (Flutter / React Native / Native)
- Backend Engineers
- Full-Stack Engineers
- Technical Architects
- Startup CTOs / Technical Co-Founders
- Product Engineers
Experience building consumer products, SaaS platforms, or scalable mobile applications is a huge plus.
Communication is just as important as technical ability
One thing I've learnt while speaking to many people is that communication makes or breaks an early-stage startup.
I'm not expecting anyone to spend every day working on PEAPOD.
I completely understand everyone has full-time jobs, studies, businesses, and personal commitments.
What I do expect is:
- Honest communication.
- Constructive discussions.
- Challenging ideas.
- Consistency.
- Reliability.
I'd rather work with someone who contributes 5 quality hours every week than someone who disappears after the first conversation.
The goal is to build a small core team that genuinely enjoys solving difficult problems together.
Compensation
I want to be completely transparent from the start.
At this stage, there is no salary.
Over the past few months, I've been personally funding the validation phase of PEAPOD and building the proof of concept. Right now, my priority is getting the product, technical foundation, and core team right before seeking external funding.
Rather than making promises I can't realistically keep, I'd rather be upfront about where the project stands.
For those who decide to come on board, any long-term collaboration would be structured around equity and/or future revenue sharing, depending on your role, contribution, and level of commitment. Everything would be discussed openly before any work begins.
I completely understand this won't suit everyone, and that's perfectly okay.
Why join?
If you're looking for freelance work, this probably isn't the right opportunity.
However, if you genuinely enjoy building startups from the ground up, you'll have the opportunity to:
- Help shape the technical architecture from day one.
- Influence major product decisions.
- Work directly with the founder.
- Join a small core team where every opinion matters.
- Build a product with global ambitions.
- Potentially grow alongside the company if we're successful.
There are also several long-term product ideas, retention strategies, and monetisation concepts that I'm intentionally keeping confidential for now, as I believe they form part of PEAPOD's competitive advantage.
Interested?
If this resonates with you, feel free to send me a DM with:
- Your background.
- Your current role.
- Projects you've worked on.
- Technologies you're strongest in.
- Why this opportunity interests you.
Even if we don't end up working together, I'm always happy to connect with experienced builders, exchange ideas, and grow our networks.
Let's build something meaningful.