There is no list.
Most apps that send a person to your door start with a grid. Plumber. Electrician. Cleaner. Cook. You find the box that fits and tap it. If no box fits, you close the app.
HUFA starts with a sentence instead. You write what you need, the way you would say it to a friend. You put a starting price on it. That is the whole front door.
Here is why.
The things people actually need do not sit in boxes. Someone has to be at the flat when the AC technician comes, sometime between 10 and 1. Someone has to go with a mother to a routine appointment and keep the family updated. Someone has to count the stock in a shop tonight. None of these is a trade. Each of them is a person being there, paying attention, and reporting back.
A grid cannot hold this. Every new kind of job needs a new tile, and the list grows until nobody reads it. Worse, the grid teaches you to think in its terms. You stop asking for what you need and start asking for what the app offers.
A sentence has no such limit. “Be home for the AC technician, 10 to 1” is complete on its own. So is “Drive my car to the service and back.” The person reading it knows what the job is, where it is, and roughly how long it takes. They can decide in a few seconds.
The starting price does the second half of the work. It tells a Hufer what the job is worth to you before anyone picks up the phone. It is a starting point, not the final number. The two of you settle the final price on a call or in chat after a Hufer accepts.
So the flow is this. You post a job in a sentence with a starting price. A Hufer nearby accepts. You agree the final price on a call or chat. You give the Hufer a Start PIN when the work begins and an End PIN when it is done. You pay in the app after the End PIN.
Nothing in that flow needed a category. The sentence carried everything.
There is one more reason, and it matters to the Hufer side as much as to yours. When a job is a sentence, the Hufer reads it as a person reads a message. They know who they are helping and what the day looks like. A tile that says “Errands” tells them nothing. A line that says “We have a family function this weekend. Can you help with the last-minute running around between the house and the hall?” tells them everything, including whether they want the job.
That is what we mean by humans first. The request is written by a human, read by a human, and accepted by a human who chose it. The app sits in the middle and keeps the record: the price you agreed, the two PINs, the payment.
If you have something in mind and are not sure it counts, write it anyway. The only test is whether it needs a person there. If it does, it is a HUFA job.
More from the blog
- Two PINs, one job.Every job has a Start PIN and an End PIN, four digits each, held by the requester. What they are for and what follows from them.
- What a Hufer job is.Ten jobs, read together, show the shape of the work: being there for someone who cannot be. And who takes them.
- Bangalore first.HUFA works in Bangalore, pincodes starting 560. Why one city, what first means, and the one number that decides the next.