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Aggregator tool for gig nurses juggling staffing apps

Build a cross-platform dashboard for per-diem and gig nurses that aggregates open shifts, pay rates, and earnings across apps like ShiftKey, CareRev, IntelyCare, and Clipboard Health, plus simple 1099 tax and license-expiry tracking. Sell as a low-cost subscription to the growing pool of nurses juggling multiple gig staffing platforms, rather than competing with the staffing marketplaces themselves.

via Hacker News
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What to build

A lightweight web/mobile dashboard for per-diem gig nurses that aggregates open shifts, pay rates, and booked earnings across ShiftKey, CareRev, IntelyCare, and Clipboard Health into one view, plus simple 1099 tax-withholding estimates and nursing license/certification expiry reminders.

Gig nurses now juggle multiple competing staffing apps with no unified way to compare pay or track total earnings, creating room for a neutral aggregator that sits on top of the marketplaces instead of competing with them.

Demand

Per-diem nurses working across ShiftKey, CareRev, IntelyCare, and Clipboard Health simultaneously have no tool to compare shift pay or consolidate earnings, and the public backlash against these apps shows how central they've become to nurses' income and how little nurses feel served by them.

  • Hacker NewsEngagement

    Nurses Sound Alarm as 'Uber for Nursing' Apps Push to Deregulate Healthcare — 162 points, 155 comments on HN, indicating high engagement with the gig nursing platform debate

  • Signal contextAnalysis

    Four distinct, actively competing gig nursing staffing platforms named in reporting confirms a fragmented multi-app ecosystem nurses must navigate without a unifying tool

Stack

  • Next.js
  • Supabase
  • Plaid (for bank-linked earnings import)
  • Playwright (for shift-data scraping where no API exists)
  • Stripe (subscription billing)
  • Twilio (shift alert notifications)

Solo + AI difficulty

The dashboard UI, auth, and 1099/license-tracking features are straightforward for a solo builder with AI help and could reach MVP in 2-4 weeks; the hard part is reliably pulling shift and pay data from apps that have no public API, which likely means fragile scraping or requiring users to manually screenshot/forward shift confirmations, adding ongoing maintenance risk.

Entry threshold
No healthcare license or marketplace liability needed since it is a data-aggregation and tracking layer, not a staffing marketplace; main effort is scraping or integrating multiple platforms, buildable solo in a few weeks with AI.
Window
6-12 months

Where to find first users

  • Nursing subreddits (r/nursing, r/TravelNursing)
  • Facebook groups for per-diem and travel nurses
  • allnurses.com forums
  • Direct outreach to nursing unions and advocacy groups cited in the original reporting

Counter-signals & risks

  • Staffing marketplaces may restrict or block third-party API/data access needed to aggregate shift and pay data, limiting technical feasibility.

  • Regulatory crackdowns or deregulation pushback could reshape or shrink the gig nursing staffing market this tool depends on.

  • Low willingness to pay among per-diem nurses for a subscription tool could undermine unit economics versus free alternatives.

Original title: Nurses Sound Alarm as 'Uber for Nursing' Apps Push to Deregulate Healthcare

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