About BidMyJob

Getting a small job done should be simple. In practice it means ringing round people who never call back, or using a platform that charges the tradesperson for the privilege of quoting, a cost that ends up in your price whether you see it or not.

BidMyJob started in July 2026 as an attempt at something plainer. Post the job. Let people who actually want it put a price on it. Choose one. Nobody takes a cut, so the price you agree is the price.

It is built and maintained by one person rather than a company with a sales team, which shapes what it is: no lead fees to protect, no pressure to grow faster than the service can stand, and the freedom to fix something the week it is reported.

Everything here depends on people nearby. Not on clever software, not on advertising — on whether someone three streets away is willing to come and cut a hedge, shift a wardrobe or clean an oven. No amount of engineering substitutes for that.

That is the honest difficulty of a site like this, and we would rather say it plainly than pretend otherwise. A marketplace with nobody in it is useless to the first person who tries it. Every early member is doing something slightly generous: joining something that is still small, on the strength of what it could become.

So the people who post the first jobs in a town, and the ones who place the first bids, matter more than anything we build. They are the reason the next person finds something useful. If you are one of them, thank you — genuinely.

It is also why there is no commission. The money for a job done in your town should stay in your town, with the person who did the work.

BidMyJobis built from scratch rather than assembled from off-the-shelf marketplace software, and runs on its own server rather than someone else's platform. That keeps the running costs low enough that charging commission is unnecessary.

Jobs are matched to people by real distance, not by postcode prefix. Every job and every member is geocoded, and matching works on the actual miles between them and the radius each person sets. When a job is posted, everyone in range who does that kind of work is emailed within seconds.

Analytics are first-party and cookieless. Visits are counted using a one-way daily fingerprint that cannot be reversed or linked from one day to the next, so we can see what is working without tracking anyone across the web or storing anything on your device. There are no advertising trackers following you from this site.

Most marketplaces grow by buying attention. Advertising stops working the day you stop paying for it, which is why platforms that rely on it end up needing commission to fund the next round. BidMyJob is built to grow a different way.

Every job posted and every member who joins creates a real page about a real place: the work open in that town, the trades available there, what those jobs typically cost locally. Each one is generated, structured for search engines and submitted for indexing automatically, within seconds of being created. Nobody writes them by hand.

That makes growth compound instead of decay. A tradesperson who joins in a new town does not just become a bidder — they become a page that answers somebody searching for exactly that trade in exactly that town, which brings the next customer, whose job becomes another page. The network and its visibility grow together, and neither has to be paid for twice.

It is slower than advertising at the start and far better afterwards, because the pages do not disappear when a budget runs out. It is also the reason the no-commission promise is sustainable rather than a loss leader.

The aim is straightforward: enough people in one area that posting a job reliably gets you two or three real bids the same day. Density beats reach, so the focus stays on building that properly in the South West before going wider.

Beyond the usual trades, the categories that matter most here are the ones nobody else serves well — practical help and companionship for older people, and freelance support for small businesses. Work that matters locally and that the big platforms treat as an afterthought.

Longer term, the most useful thing BidMyJob can offer is honest local pricing: what a job actually costs round here, drawn from real jobs rather than national averages.