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SYDETASKER FOUNDER: Colin Milligan WEBSITE: sydetasker.com W H AT I T D O E S: Connects homeowners with local “taskers” F O U N D E D: 2020
Sydetasker platform helping homeowners knock out their to-do lists By Maredithe Meyer, staff writer
ilwaukee entrepreneur Colin Milligan and his company Sydetasker are helping homeowners tackle their to-do lists. Milligan, who is chief executive officer and co-founder, created Sydetasker to help homeowners complete everyday tasks that they are too busy or unable to do. Sydetasker’s software helps connect users in need of services to local and independent contractors. The app provides a labor force of verified “taskers” that users Colin Milligan and Zaid Altahat, co founders of Sydetasker. can browse for hire. The customer assigns a task, and payment for that task is held secure until the job is marked Once he knew he wanted to develop a platcomplete by the customer. Businesses using form, Milligan sought help from Zaid Altahat, Sydetasker get alerts when a service they can professor of computer science at the University provide is needed. of Wisconsin-Parkside. Altahat is now co-foundSydetasker generated $90,000 in revenue er and chief technology officer at Sydetasker. in 2021, pocketing approximately 17% of each To date, approximately 4,000 users have paid job that was completed. downloaded Sydetasker. Those users have “One morning, me and my college roommostly come from Craigslist, where Sydetasker mates got up and realized, ‘Oh, the house is ads have been strategically placed, and social kind of dirty,’” Milligan said. “We didn’t really media. want to clean it, and we thought a college stu“People feel safe using our platform,” dent could probably do it at a lower rate than a Milligan said. “They know that there’s a person professional cleaner.” behind it who makes sure that the jobs get This was his initial exposure to the odd jobs done.” market. Noticing high demand for cleaning and Aside from $10,000 won recently on a handiwork services, Milligan began putting recent episode of “Project Pitch It” on WISNflyers up around Oshkosh, where he attended TV Channel 12, and $5,000 awarded through college. He took on different tasks as a side the Titan Accelerator at UW-Oshkosh, company hustle until realizing there was another way to leadership has been bootstrapping up to this serve customers: developing a platform. point. “I didn’t really know anything about the Moving forward, Milligan said, he’ll seek industry until I started cleaning on my own,” further guidance from area accelerators and Milligan said. financial assistance from angel investors. n
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