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It'd be nice if you could pay users so you don't just become another bothersome mosquito in their pocket. For example: Say I need something from the county re

It'd be nice if you could pay users so you don't just become another bothersome mosquito in their pocket. For example: Say I need something from the county records of some place far from me but I need them quickly. I place a human.io call to pay $50 to whomever takes a picture of a series of documents first. That could be huge.

aaronbrethorst 14y ago
Isn't that Zaarly?
- joshu 14y ago
  Or taskrabbit. Think of human.io as more of the platform you might build one of these on. We're not reselling a labor pool, we're making it possible to stay engaged with one, especially for folks that have large audiences that aren't particularly engaged (newspapers, etc.)
  - xxbondsxx 14y ago
    Or exec. There's a lot of people in this space.
    - joshu 14y ago
      Yes. I'm actually an investor in Exec. We're aiming at a different use-case though. Lots of people doing short one-off tasks around opinion and circumstance rather than paid specific tasks with a known, trained workforce.
tptacek 14y ago
Human.io's job is to sell the developers. The developer's job is to sell the humans. I think I have that right. Imagine if the Chicago Tribune wanted to build data-driven apps from people on the streets downtown. Just like if they wanted to do telephony apps they'd have to spend $300k getting Asterix wired up properly and Twilio makes it work out of a Sinatra app; similarly, my sense is, Human.io is trying to do that for people-driven apps.
- joshu 14y ago
  This is exactly correct. We need to make it easy for developers to sell the humans. (In my parlance, publishers are the people with audience, developers are the people who code, and audience are the people that use the phone. In the wacky future, they may only be indirectly connected.)
  - tptacek 14y ago
    It's like the question you're asking developers is, "what if your app could be on every block in Chicago, in real time, right now? What would you do with that?" Also, I think the emphasis on "humans" in your messaging obscures the point a little. You're not so much programming humans are you are transforming them into sensors. In that sense, a little surprised the words "eyes and ears" appear nowhere on your front page.
    - joshu 14y ago
      That's a good point.
revicon 14y ago
Gigwalk has been doing this for quite a while.

aaronbrethorst 14y ago

Isn't that Zaarly?

joshu 14y ago
Or taskrabbit. Think of human.io as more of the platform you might build one of these on. We're not reselling a labor pool, we're making it possible to stay engaged with one, especially for folks that have large audiences that aren't particularly engaged (newspapers, etc.)
- xxbondsxx 14y ago
  Or exec. There's a lot of people in this space.
  - joshu 14y ago
    Yes. I'm actually an investor in Exec. We're aiming at a different use-case though. Lots of people doing short one-off tasks around opinion and circumstance rather than paid specific tasks with a known, trained workforce.

tptacek 14y ago

Human.io's job is to sell the developers. The developer's job is to sell the humans. I think I have that right. Imagine if the Chicago Tribune wanted to build data-driven apps from people on the streets downtown. Just like if they wanted to do telephony apps they'd have to spend $300k getting Asterix wired up properly and Twilio makes it work out of a Sinatra app; similarly, my sense is, Human.io is trying to do that for people-driven apps.

joshu 14y ago
This is exactly correct. We need to make it easy for developers to sell the humans. (In my parlance, publishers are the people with audience, developers are the people who code, and audience are the people that use the phone. In the wacky future, they may only be indirectly connected.)
- tptacek 14y ago
  It's like the question you're asking developers is, "what if your app could be on every block in Chicago, in real time, right now? What would you do with that?" Also, I think the emphasis on "humans" in your messaging obscures the point a little. You're not so much programming humans are you are transforming them into sensors. In that sense, a little surprised the words "eyes and ears" appear nowhere on your front page.
  - joshu 14y ago
    That's a good point.

revicon 14y ago

Gigwalk has been doing this for quite a while.