I wonder if there is some global on-demand workforce use case that could be well suited for nostr and zaps 🤔

I don’t know if anyone is familiar, but there’s a service on Amazon called “Mechanical Turk” or mturk. It basically lets you crowdsource work - usually for some repetitive thing that you can just delegate out. 

I am just thinking if there’s some way that market could be brought onto nostr. I think part of the issue with accessing such a global workforce is for workers to have to sign up, provide ID, wait for payouts.. it’s a tedious process. But with notes and zaps it could be fast and effortless. 

I imagine you would need a specialized client that handles work requests and has a way to manage them in a non-spammy way that does not interfere with the rest of the social use case.

This could even carry over into the ML labeling services - human reinforce learning which is all powered by humans. 

Just some thoughts…

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I am banking on on-demand AI-models that will only do the work if they get paid in sats. That’s the goal for #[2]

Wouldn’t they just use credits as they do now? What might change for them to want to get paid in sats?

Great idea! Gig economy certainly has its place on Nostr. How to organise it?

Give it enough time and crazy devs and even Uber can be reimagined here.

I think LNbits already has an independent Uber like app somewhere

👀 if someone can point me towards some info and spare some pain to the two neurones attempting to run the show today it would be much appreciated

Might be a little early still, looks like it might have been put on hold, can’t find anything recent about it, soon™

This isn’t exactly them same, but I think shared computing power and storage will be unlocked by the combo of lightning payments and both Nostr, but probably more likely things like holepunch that connect directly P2P.

This doubly so with the rise of AI models and the like.

Reckon it needs someone kind of contract to make it happen between clients and job contributors ?

I don’t think so. Even places like Upwork that are more hands on don’t use contracts.

On mturk if I remember correctly you just go on the workers reputation rating. This could be possibly solved with a web of trust rating or actual user feedback and rating mechanism.

This is Stak (née Stakwork), Paul Itoi’s company. Same team that built Sphinx Chat.

https://www.stakwork.com/

Wow, they had the thought long ago then!

Now hook it up to nostr, get rid of demo junk and we’re in business!

That’s a great point. Need to get Paul on nostr.

I read this note yesterday, (excuse the time)

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Great discussion here...

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