{"id":146548,"date":"2021-12-03T22:08:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T22:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=146548"},"modified":"2021-12-03T22:08:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T22:08:10","slug":"lads-went-from-flogging-sweets-at-school-to-running-viral-app-worth-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/lads-went-from-flogging-sweets-at-school-to-running-viral-app-worth-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"Lads went from flogging sweets at school to running viral app worth millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two pals who used to flog sweets at school are now running a multi-million-pound business.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver Jacobs and Joseph Black, both 25, are the brains behind the free app UniTaskr that helps a student pay their way through university.<\/p>\n<p>So far they have offered almost \u00a311million worth of jobs to cash-strapped students.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph said: \u201cWe really want to make it so that no student has to leave university because they can\u2019t make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want them to lack the opportunity of expanding their talents just because they can\u2019t afford it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Since launching UniTaskr two years ago the pair, originally from Hertfordshire, now have 20 staff and 190,000 members.<\/p>\n<p>The app connects students to employers who pay for skills such as digital marketing and design. Fees range from \u00a35 to test and review a product, to \u00a320 for writing a blog, while more steady work can bring in \u00a3250 a week or more.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article25613888.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/0_PA-Real-Life-Oliver-Jacobs-and-Joseph-Black-Unitaskr.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Oliver said: \u201cOne single mum said the jobs helped her to feed her baby through the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to reports from the Hertfordshire Mercury, employers simply post the details of the task they want to be completed and how much they are willing to pay for it on UniTaskr, then the student registers their interest and, hopefully, gets hired, or an employer can browse through qualified students and approach them directly.<\/p>\n<p>While they started the app under the name \u2018UniDosh\u2019 in 2016, it was only in 2019 when Joseph and Oliver relaunched as UniTaskr in the autumn that they began to find success.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters <\/i><\/b><b><i>here<\/i> <\/b> .<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article25613890.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/0_PA-Real-Life-Oliver-Jacobs-and-Joseph-Black-Unitaskr.jpg\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<figure data-mod=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article25612866.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615\/0_JS252285518.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>Pals yank dead friend out of his coffin to take him on one last macabre motorcycle ride<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/@trinitymirrordigital\/chameleon-branding\/publications\/dailystar\/img\/logo-schema-dailystar.png\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Their most successful feature was called \u2018Shout,\u2019 facilitating students to make money as \u2018nano-influencers\u2019 \u2013 someone with anywhere between 500 and 5,000 followers on social media \u2013 posting on behalf of companies looking to increase their profile.<\/p>\n<p>Now UniTaskr\u2019s success has been recognised by TikTok which, according to Joseph, stated that the app has the largest network of nano-influencers on one platform in the world.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWe didn\u2019t even know what that meant at the time. We initially thought of the platform just for finding jobs, but Shout turned out to be our biggest success story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are 180,000 nano-influencers on our app that can reach a whopping combined 500,000,000 people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/how-lads-went-flogging-sweets-25613735\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two pals who used to flog sweets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":146547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lads went from flogging sweets at school to running viral app worth millions - Pre Coin News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/lads-went-from-flogging-sweets-at-school-to-running-viral-app-worth-millions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lads went from flogging sweets at school to running viral app worth millions - 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