Launching in Bergen County, NJ

Your neighborhood,
closer.

NEARO connects neighbors with spare hours to nearby gigs, quick help, and meetups.

5 weeksidea to working app

80+on the waitlist

100beta testers lined up

The problem

Plenty of people have an hour. Nobody has a way to find it.

Small local jobs still move by word of mouth. Job apps want full-time hires with experience, and local groups live in chat threads that go quiet.

Parents
Free between school drop-off and pickup, but no job fits a 9-to-3 window.
9am–3pm
Students
Want pocket money after class or on break, without a long-term commitment.
Evenings, breaks
Retirees
Able to work, but face age barriers and long commutes for small paychecks.
Within a mile
Neighbors who need help
Snow on the driveway, leaves in the yard, a bug in the kitchen. Today, not next week.
Same day

Most local jobs come through friendsNewcomers without connections get left out.

Postings go unansweredNo phone, no email, owner never around.

Group chats dieHard to agree on when and where, and hard to know who to trust.

What NEARO does

One app for everything that happens within a mile of home

Help

Post a gig in a minute

Describe the task, set the pay, and neighbors nearby see it right away.

Urgent · Same-day pay · Neighbor requests

Earn

Pick up work nearby

Filter by distance, time of day and language. Apply in one tap.

No experience · Short shifts · Korean-speaking

Groups

Meet the people next door

Find active local groups by interest, or start a meetup for right now.

Meet Now · Schedule · Group chat

Find gigs that fit your day

By situation

Urgent
Same-day pay
No experience needed
Remote
Korean
Super easy

By time

Short hours
One day
Up to 3 days
Up to a week
Up to a month
Mornings
Evenings
Weekends
Weekdays 9–3

Live product

Built and ready for beta

A few screens from the NEARO app. Tap through, or swipe the phone.

Get beta access

Sample data · Fort Lee, NJ

How it works

From post to paid in four steps

01
Post
A neighbor posts a task with time, place and pay. Posting is free.
02
Match
Nearby Heroes apply. The poster checks reviews and picks one.
03
Pay is held
The poster pays through NEARO Pay. Stripe holds the funds.
04
Done
Funds release when the job is complete, and both sides leave a review.

$0to post a gig

15%matching fee, paid by the poster

100%of the pay goes to the Hero

Freegroups, plus paid badges and local ads

Status

Where we are today

Product

Gig posting, search and filters
Applications, matching and chat
Local groups and Meet Now
Easy Mode for older users
Korean, English, Chinese, Spanish
NEARO Pay with Stripe, final integration
AI assistant that posts and finds gigs by voice

Market

$12.9B

20% of US households posting one $40 gig a month.

353Khouseholds in Bergen County, our beachhead

NY, NJ, CAfirst launch states

$124Kmedian household income in Bergen County

3,000+real users, our 3-month goal

	Built for	Who does the work	Community
TaskRabbit · Angi	Bigger home projects	Vetted pros and businesses	None
Craigslist	Anything, anywhere	Strangers, little trust	None
Meetup	Events and networking	No work	Broad, not local
NEARO	One-hour gigs, same day	Neighbors with reviews	Local groups built in

Team

Two founders, both sides of the market

Rachel Kang

Co-founder & CEO

The supply side. Has started and run businesses since high school and brings local services to customers.

Licensed real estate agent in NJ and NY since 2024
30+ deals and about $3M in volume in her first year, at 19
Leads product, design and strategy; built NEARO with AI tools

Haeun Kim

Co-founder & COO

The worker side. Four years in the workforce, and the gap NEARO fills is one she has lived.

Leads operations, user research and marketing
Ran the usability tests that led to Easy Mode
Owns go-to-market in Bergen County's communities

Both full-time · No outside developers · Ready to relocate to SF · NEARO Networks LLC

Be first on your block

We're opening NEARO town by town, starting in Bergen County.

Your neighborhood, closer.