I'm curious if anyone has actually started working on an implementation of this, and if not, what set of features (or service infrastructure) would be necessary

I'm curious if anyone has actually started working on an implementation of this, and if not, what set of features (or service infrastructure) would be necessary for a sort of minimum viable product type thing (its supposed to be able to harness human minions so I'd imagine that's fairly central to its hopes for growth and development)?