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- Development of a Front-End solution for the Gig Economy in the beauty & body-art sectorsPublication . Gomes, Pedro Miguel Rodrigues; Paulo, Filipe de Faria PachecoOpportunity The Gig Economy is revolutionizing the way people work and on-demand platform-work is becoming more common, growing its economy and expanding into more and new industries. Online platforms promoting on-demand either remotely or on-location work as a form of employment are increasing by the day as workers don’t want to be tied to a lengthy career, job titles or typical 9 to 5 work schedules. While platforms such as Uber and Airbnb dominate the market on transportation and home-sharing respectively, the on-demand, on-location market for short-lived tasks has untapped potential. Social media business profiles are emerging at an accelerated pace, from fully developed businesses boosting their presence in the current consumer market, to self-employed people promoting themselves online to attract more clients and make extra income. Many recognize this generation of buyers as one deeply reliant on social-media to decide what to buy next, let it be services or products. Social-media profiles for cosmetic jobs ranging from Barber, Hairdressing, Manicure, Pedicure, Make-up to more artistic such Tattoo Artist and Body Piercing are increasing; however, social-media platforms, while providing the best mean for content and media delivery, they lack functionalities to allow users to properly arrange meetings and handle appointments. Solution GigWho is a mobile platform that connects independent platform workers in the beauty and body art sector with clients in a swift and consistence experience. It’s an all-in-one mobile solution for convenient services such as: Barber, Hairdresser, Pedicure, Manicure, Make-Up, Tattoos and Body Piercing. The clients are able to request a service whenever they want, according to workers’ availability, and workers can add a new source of revenue with full flexibility. GigWho is aimed for self-employed workers granting them the ability to choose when and how they want to work, with specific Platform-Work features (schedule appointments, client management) as well as typical social media features (media content display, likes and shares, push-notifications). As for the clients, GigWho provides them convenience and flexibly to choose their favourite worker and handle everything through the platform.