LifeWork was a payment platform to help remote freelancers get paid faster and more securely using an escrow service that integrates into the freelance workflow that I co-founded and ran with Stefan Wrobel from 2018 to 2022. We bootstrapped LifeWork to transacting over $1m in freelancer contracts and ultimately made the sad decision to stop prioritising growth when our seed funding round fell through as the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020. We maintained the platform for our existing users and ultimately closed it down in late 2023.

Both Stefan and I are still passionate about improving outcomes for freelancers and the infrastructure needed to enable truly flexible working. If you’re working on something with a similar mission and might benefit from hearing our insights please get in touch. Below are screen grabs of the website before we took it down.