Satnica is "Tinder for gigs", a job matching app for students in Croatia, and I founded it. Swipe through gigs, apply in one click, work a real, legally covered job instead of a cash-in-hand one.
The brief
Student work in Croatia mostly runs through word of mouth or informal arrangements that skip the paperwork entirely, which means no real protection if a shift goes unpaid or a job turns out to be nothing like it was described. At the same time, the actual legal path, a proper student contract through a licensed student employment service, is buried behind slow, clunky processes that nobody wants to deal with when they just need a weekend gig. The gap between "easy" and "legit" was the whole problem to solve.
What I built
The interface people already understand for fast decisions is a swipe, so that is the core mechanic: students swipe through gig listings the way they would swipe through anything else on their phone, and apply in one tap when something fits. No account setup marathon, no long form before you even see what is on offer.
The part that actually matters happens behind that swipe. Every hire routes through a legitimate student employment service using a real student contract, the same kind of arrangement that has always existed in Croatia for student work, just made fast enough to compete with informal cash jobs on convenience. That was the founding bet: if the legal path is as quick as texting a friend for an under-the-table shift, most students will take the legal path.
Right now the public face of Satnica is the waitlist site, built on Astro, TypeScript, and deployed on Vercel, chosen because a waitlist needs to be fast and simple to ship while the actual matching app, the swipe interface, the employer side, the contract flow, is still in development.
The result
The waitlist is live at satnica.io and collecting interest ahead of the app itself. It exists to prove the demand and start the list of students who want in the moment the app ships, while the harder engineering, the actual matching product, gets built properly rather than rushed out to match a marketing deadline. The site is deliberately the easy part done first, the app is the part worth taking the time to get right.