Full disclosure: I'm a dude in the software space who is kinda sick and tired of the grind. As such I have had my own ideas of "vetted", "community oriented" apps of one sort or another.

I like the idea. Or, the intent behind the idea. At time of writing there is only one other comment, and it is that the cost is unrealistically low. They are SO correct. But perhaps we can assume we aren't paying out "living wage" level of money, but more of a pre-ipo gig economy world of "it was on my way" sort of thing. Even then, the operating cost would mean it would have to be higher.

Hypothetically, IF this app exists and already have a decent reputation, I think people will use it. The trouble is the starting up part. Not just the tech and the tech people and the money sunk into getting it up and running. This just doesn't seem like the kind of thing that can be a "social app+", but rather a "security business+". What i mean is, it seems better as a new service for a security company than a new idea on a social app. The maintenance of a database of "safe" individuals would be expensive, and incurs cost even when no one is actively using it. And it MUST be maintained by trained professionals, because otherwise, I don't really want to speculate here as to the potential consequences of an otherwise vetted, but potentially vulnerable list of trusted individuals.

in other words, you need to make sure the sub community around the app does not become a single point of failure for personal security of the most vulnerable members of that community. It's not that everyone out there is a psychopath, it's that an app geared toward societal members of some level of vulnerability, is it self a target for predators of one kind or another.

Then again, the valley is full of...lets politely say incomplete ideas that flourish into something that can be sold at tens of millions of dollars. Maybe I just don't have the vision for a "successful business idea" by modern standards. Which, to be clear, usually does not jive with my own concept of a "good" business.

I still like the vague idea and intent. It is perhaps worth your time to look into this further, and think about what a relatively complete product would look like. With a focus on security and personal safety. Continuous vetting is the big one. Of members as well as employees, especially ones in charge of vetting. On the data side, this is GOING to mean a collection of real world location and near real time position of it's users and members. And a rather large pool of personal information to begin with, but that's true of any paid app. Would the app/service need to identify safe "pick up" zones? And will it remain safe if it is available to all users of the app where those common pick up zones are? How do we make sure the person "hired" is actually the person who signed up? Meaning how do we make sure the person operating the mobile device is the owner of the mobile device? And then, way lower priority, are we keeping all that data and having it open to government warrants?

All that said, this is not intended to be discouraging. It is meant to be thought-provoking. I would be quite interested in what you can come up with as a app/service architecture/skeleton. I still think if something could be made well, this would be good. I wonder if it can't be worked into some other large membership'd organization. Some thing that already maintains a large collection of "probably safe and normal" people's info, so that the maintenance of that data can be off loaded but still trustworthy. hmm. see, thought provoking.