Excellent app with critical failure
I got Ideal in Beta a few months ago. I’ve enjoyed the UI, the lenient work policy, and enthusiastic support staff. This app is fantastic and deserves a chance: it is an interesting innovation with a well executed frontside. However, you CANNOT control what job notifications you receive. I have found no ability to increase range of notifications easily in app. This may seem like a minor nitpick, but unlike Uber or Lyft the demand for work is FAR lower than the supply of workers. Missing a notification for a job can mean straight up missing out on work. At the moment of this review, you can only “turn on” notifications. There is no “send me ALL job notifications” that i can now see on the app. There is no way for the user to modify the range at which they receive job notifications. This is a huge flaw for me. I enjoy every other aspect of Ideal. But this one feature frustrates me so much I cannot really recommend it in its current state. Increase the range for notifications, or better yet, allow for a user-controllable range for notifications based on zipcode (10-100 miles) would solve this issue for me and become an INSTANT 5 Stars. tldr; good app bad notifications
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Response from developer
Thank you for the feedback and being part of our beta program! We really appreciate you being an early adopter of the app. This is great feedback and something we are working to improve throughout the product as we speak. We'll be continuing to refine our notifications to make sure you never miss a job. Thank you again for being an Ideal worker!
