moonlighters.

THE AFTER-HOURS NETWORK / AOTEAROA NZ

Big talent.
Your terms.

Your best work doesn’t have to be your day job.

Highly skilled people. Carefully chosen projects. A curated New Zealand network where your experience matters — and showing your name is your choice.

Sign up to be a Moonlighter

Personally reviewed. Anonymous if you want to be.

An AI-generated editorial image of a woman working in her creative studio after hours
18:01 / ON YOUR OWN TIME

More to you.
More to make.

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SIDE HUSTLE.
ON YOUR TERMS.
GOOD AT SOMETHING?

Design ✳ Development ✳ Marketing ✳ Operations ✳ Strategy ✳ And the rest.

BLACK MODE / OPTIONAL ANONYMITY

Side hustle
on the down low

Use an alias. Keep your name and identifying work history out of shared summaries. Your full application is reviewed privately.

YOUR SKILLS IN THE SPOTLIGHT.
YOUR NAME? YOUR CALL.Apply as a Moonlighter

Both people say yes before contact details are shared.

01 / A DIFFERENT KIND OF WORK NETWORK

Good people.
Great work. Quietly.

FOR THE MOONLIGHTERS

You’ve got a skill.
Give it a side project.

Bring the skills you’ve earned. Walk us through your recent experience, show us your work and tell us what you want to do next. Every application is reviewed personally.

Sign up to be a Moonlighter
FOR THE CLIENTS

You’ve got a project.
Find your person.

A sharp brief deserves a sharp mind. Tell us the project, budget and deliverables. We make considered introductions based on experience, fit and availability.

I’ve got a project

LESS BROADCAST.
MORE POSSIBILITY.

Keep the day job.
Make the night move.

Your name is optional. Your experience isn’t. We review work history, portfolio and references before approving Moonlighters. Choose Black mode to keep identifying details out of shared summaries, or use your name.

A personal review of professional experience — not a criminal-record check. Introductions need a yes from both sides.

02 / MAKE YOUR NEXT MOVE

Your experience.
Your choice.

Apply for the first curated cohort, or tell us what you’re building. Write your application here, or open the floating chat to talk it through with Gemini. Either way, you review the details before they go for review.

Black mode. Same calibre.

Want to keep it quiet? Choose an alias and a separate Gmail. We can review your full experience privately while your name, employers and identifying history stay out of shared summaries.

All applications start private. Named mode lets you use your name in reviewed introductions; it does not publish a profile. Black mode is privacy from other members and the public, not from the Moonlighters team or the services processing your information.

THE WRITTEN APPLICATION
I’m here to…
Your visibility

YOUR DETAILS / REVIEW & SEND

Complete these details yourself, or review a draft from the chat. Nothing is sent until you submit this form.

Free to apply. Personal review. No automatic acceptance.

03 / FAIR QUESTIONS

The lowdown.

Is this actually anonymous?+

Anonymity is optional. In Black mode, your real name, employers and identifying work history stay private to the authorised Moonlighters team, and out of shared summaries. Named mode lets you use your display name in reviewed introductions. There is no public directory. Both people approve before contact emails are shared. An alias email helps, but absolute anonymity is not guaranteed.

Can I do this alongside my day job?+

That’s the idea. Check your employment agreement, conflicts of interest and any required permissions first. Use your own time, equipment and work. Moonlighters is for legitimate side projects.

What happens after I register?+

Your application is reviewed personally. For Moonlighters, that means work history, portfolio and references, with any reference contact agreed separately. Approved applicants may be invited into the private pilot. Clients have their brief reviewed before a considered introduction. Applying does not guarantee acceptance, work or a match.

Does it cost anything?+

Applying to the network is free. Any future matching or platform fees will be explained before you commit.

Can I register on both sides?+

Absolutely. Submit once as talent and once as a client. Keep the private removal link from each registration if you want to remove either later.

The night desk

MOONLIGHTERS / GEMINI

A CONVERSATION, NOT A CV.

Your next move starts here.

Tell me about your skills and the last 1–3 years of work. We’ll build your application one question at a time.

I’m here to…
How would you like to be introduced?
ON YOUR TERMS.

LAST UPDATED 18 SEPTEMBER 2026

A note on privacy.

Moonlighters collects your chosen display name or alias, private name if supplied, email, visibility choice, location, professional summary, recent work history, portfolio, relevant education, reference availability or project brief, and consent time. Applications are private and there is no public directory. We review work history, portfolio and references; reference contact is agreed separately. Do not submit other people’s contact details or confidential material.

Authorised Moonlighters team members use this information to review interest and contact you about the launch and relevant opportunities. Your information is stored with Cloudflare and may be processed outside New Zealand. We do not sell your information. Black mode excludes your real name, employers and identifying history from shared summaries; named mode permits your chosen display name in reviewed introductions. Original applications stay private. Both people approve before contact emails are released.

Submitting is optional. Required fields help us understand where you fit. Use generic employer descriptions in chat if you prefer, then add the names directly in the private form. Black mode does not hide your submission from the Moonlighters team. A new email does not make you fully anonymous. Cloudflare processes technical connection data to deliver and protect the site; the application does not store your IP address in your registration.

We use Google Tag Manager to load Google Analytics and Google Ads measurement on this page. It helps us understand visits and count completed signups. These Google services may set cookies and process device and browsing information, including outside New Zealand. We do not send your form answers, name, email address or phone number to them.

If you choose the Gemini assistant, your chat and draft work/project fields are sent through Cloudflare AI Gateway to Google Gemini to ask questions and draft your application. Your contact email and private-name form fields are not sent. Identifying information you type into chat is processed by those providers, including in Black mode. Gateway prompt/response logging and caching are disabled. Moonlighters keeps chat only in this browser tab’s memory, not its database; provider processing and retention follow their service terms. Do not treat chat as a confidential document vault. The manual form bypasses Gemini. AI drafts do not make approval decisions; you review them before submission.

We keep registrations for up to 12 months unless you remove yours sooner or separately agree to move into the live service. Use the private link shown after signup to delete your registration. To correct it, remove it and register again. Deletions remove the active record; service backups may retain it temporarily under Cloudflare’s backup lifecycle.

For access, correction or privacy enquiries, email bookings@moonlighters.co.nz. Keep your private removal link somewhere safe; it is your access key for removing this interest registration.

Invited pilot members can sign in using an email code sent by Cloudflare. The pilot also stores editable profiles, project briefs, review notes, introduction approvals, notification preferences and activity records. The operator reviews these records; prospective matches see redacted summaries. Contact details are released only after both people explicitly approve. Removing a profile removes its associated projects and matches. Minimal activity records are retained for up to 12 months.