Hire a marketer, skip Upwork
Updated October 2026
Posting “need someone to market my app” on a big freelance site usually means a flood of copy-pasted proposals, a day of reading them, and fees added at checkout. For a small, first marketing job, that's a lot of overhead.
What hiring on Upwork involves (October 2026)
- Writing a job post, then reading and screening proposals.
- Clients pay fees on top of the price: a marketplace fee and a contract-initiation fee.
- Choosing between hourly and fixed-price contracts with milestones.
Fees change; check Upwork's pricing for current numbers.
The short way
- Post in about a minute: your link, the channel, what a win looks like, a rough budget.
- Get up to 5 fixed-price offers. Each says what, by when, how much. No essays to read.
- You pay the offer price, nothing on top. The money is held until you approve the work.
- Ghosted? Refunded. A week late with nothing delivered refunds automatically.
When a big freelance site is the better choice
If you need ongoing, hourly work across many skills, or a large pool to choose from, a big marketplace fits. For a first, scoped piece of distribution for a new app, a small fixed-price job is faster to buy and easier to judge.
The short version
Shoutyard is the distribution marketplace for vibe coders. Post your app in about a minute, get up to five fixed-price offers from real people who like this work, and your payment is held until you approve it.
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