Investor briefAs of 5 November 2026
Demand is our bottleneck.
A task marketplace: post any task in the app or through ChatGPT or Claude, a real person does it, and HSTLE holds the money until you approve.
67
tasks posted by outside people in the week to 5 November. 2 paid in.
The problem
Nobody owns tasks.
Stand in the passport queue.Never mind.Pick up a parcel.Never mind.Fix my résumé tonight.Never mind.
Quick commerce solved products. A task still goes to whoever you know, or dies before anyone is asked.
Why now
AI can research anything. It can’t stand in a queue.
Someone has to be the person it calls. ChatGPT and Claude can already post a task to HSTLE for a connected account; the account holder picks the person and pays.
How it works
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Post it. One line and your price. Posting is free.
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Someone does it. The first person to say yes, or the one you pick.
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You approve. They’re paid. Until then, HSTLE holds the money.
The live app. Example task and names.
Where it works
In person
the Mumbai region.
Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai, out to Virar and Panvel.
Remote
posted from anywhere.
By a verified account, no phone number needed. The work is paid in rupees, into an Indian bank account.
Traction
20 of last week’s outside tasks were taken by a worker. 18 were cancelled by their posters before paying.
You pay when someone takes the task, not when you post, because asking for money first needs more trust than a new app has. Getting posters to pay at that step is what this round buys.
Supply
4,583 people signed up since 22 October, after an SEO update to hstle.in and a reel.
In all, 924 people hold a full ID approval, and 448 people sent 1,270 applications in the 14 days to 5 November. 58 tasks are done; 57 were posted by HSTLE to test the payments.
Business model
HSTLE keeps ₹10 and 10% of the price.
The poster pays the price plus ₹10 when someone takes the task; the worker gets 90% of the price. Gateway and payout costs come out of HSTLE’s share.
Competition
The real competitor is somebody’s cousin.
- Somebody’s cousin. Free. No ID, no set price, no rating, no recourse.
- Snabbit, Pronto, Urban Company InstaHelp. Home chores from a set list at set prices, at the door in 10 to 15 minutes.
- Fiverr. Remote work, sold as fixed‑price packages.
- HSTLE. Any legal task at the poster’s price, in person in the Mumbai region or remote, the money held until the poster approves.
A set list breaks on an open task: the pricing, the training and the promise.
The round
Raising a pre‑seed round.
Terms on the call. It pays for a Neighbourhood Lead who lives in Bandra, Juhu or Andheri and recruits posters by name, then an operations hire.
Both of us work on HSTLE full time.
Aquleem Sayyed
Founder
Built HSTLE’s apps, web, backend and payments; sold 250+ cars at Exotic Cars in Mumbai; London School of Economics.
Priyanka Rana
Co-founder, growth and brand
Marketing head for Zeqon International’s luxury interior brands; grew SaffronStays’ 500k+ follower community.