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Micropay contract
Feb. 2nd, 2009 04:18 pmOK, so I had this vaguely odd notion enter my brain on the way home from work.
Micropayment contract work.
The idea being that there's some kind of brokerage site, that facilitates 'short duration mini-contracts'. I'm thinking primarily IT related, but there's not really any specific reason why that needs to be so.
So you'd post a request and a figure for the work.
Someone else would accept, and upon delivery get the pay.
But with emphasis on making it 'short and simple' such that you've room to do this kind of thing all ad-hoc in free time or use it as a sequence of mini-jobs that pays you a full time wage.
I'm not entirely sure how you'd get it to work just yet, as ... well, all too often task requests are a bit vague. And that's even before you get into considerations like 'what happens if they don't deliver' and other things like privacy concerns.
But what do you reckon? Would that be something vaguely interesting? Something where you could post an ad-hoc 'someone code me this little snippet to do xyz' or 'put together a spreadsheet for me to track some daily hours' type requests?
And in turn, pick them up, do a couple of hours work, and get paid?
I think what'd have to happen is big simplification of posting requests/paying people for their work, and some kind of mechanism to restrain pisstaking, but ...
Micropayment contract work.
The idea being that there's some kind of brokerage site, that facilitates 'short duration mini-contracts'. I'm thinking primarily IT related, but there's not really any specific reason why that needs to be so.
So you'd post a request and a figure for the work.
Someone else would accept, and upon delivery get the pay.
But with emphasis on making it 'short and simple' such that you've room to do this kind of thing all ad-hoc in free time or use it as a sequence of mini-jobs that pays you a full time wage.
I'm not entirely sure how you'd get it to work just yet, as ... well, all too often task requests are a bit vague. And that's even before you get into considerations like 'what happens if they don't deliver' and other things like privacy concerns.
But what do you reckon? Would that be something vaguely interesting? Something where you could post an ad-hoc 'someone code me this little snippet to do xyz' or 'put together a spreadsheet for me to track some daily hours' type requests?
And in turn, pick them up, do a couple of hours work, and get paid?
I think what'd have to happen is big simplification of posting requests/paying people for their work, and some kind of mechanism to restrain pisstaking, but ...
