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Title: A bitcoin mechanical turk / fiverr clone Post by: ripper234 on April 17, 2011, 06:43:13 PM (Post edited - this is an old post, but I realize no TL;DR. Basically, it's an open source mechanical turk/fiverr clone that uses BTC)
Hello everyone, I would like to share an idea I had a few weeks ago. I'm sure that it's not original per say, but I think I might have some details that others possibly missed. The idea is for a simple bitcoin market website to facilitate purchase of goods and services via bitcoin (not a market Please take a look at this: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B-4jU8zZGkl6Mjk3ZjlmMGMtOTE3Ni00ODE4LWE0YmMtMzhlNzZhMDBhNDMw&hl=en I include a few mockups, and a product spec document. I originally thought I'd push this as a private project, but I recently started a new job and won't have enough time in the following months to do this alone. If anyone wishes to team up on this and work on it with me, I think we can actually make this happen. If you want to discuss in private, email me at ron.gross@gmail.com. The project can be undertaken as either completely open source, or propriety and closed sourced. See also http://bitcoin.witcoin.com/p/864/Should-allmost-bitcoin-related-projects-be-open-source Waiting for comments, Ron Title: Re: A bitcoin market - product vision & spec Post by: amincd on June 03, 2011, 04:37:42 AM This is a great idea. Mechanical Turk with bitcoin pay outs would make global commerce accessible to a far greater number of people.
Title: Re: A bitcoin market - product vision & spec Post by: ripper234 on June 03, 2011, 04:46:15 AM This is a great idea. Mechanical Turk with bitcoin pay outs would make global commerce accessible to a far greater number of people. Thanks, the project is under way, although at a very slow pace because of my day job :) It is also open source, so if anyone wants to contribute/fork it, let me know. Title: Re: A bitcoin mechanical turk / fiverr clone Post by: crispy on October 09, 2012, 07:24:26 PM Just found this topic. Anything happening?
Are there any patent issues? That is, does Amazon or someone else have patents on the Mechanical Turk idea? Title: Re: A bitcoin mechanical turk / fiverr clone Post by: Kontakt on October 09, 2012, 07:43:55 PM The last edits were made to the google docs in March, so I think this one is probably dead or on hold.
Title: Re: A bitcoin mechanical turk / fiverr clone Post by: kangasbros on October 09, 2012, 08:04:38 PM Coinworker.com has been working for quite a long time succesfully, and pays out pretty well (at least to my knowledge, I don't use it myself).
http://coinworker.com/ Title: Re: A bitcoin mechanical turk / fiverr clone Post by: ripper234 on October 09, 2012, 09:50:33 PM This never got off the ground.
CoinWorker isn't really similar to what I had in mind though. Title: Re: A bitcoin mechanical turk / fiverr clone Post by: wigglyuk on October 09, 2012, 10:08:51 PM This never got off the ground. CoinWorker isn't really similar to what I had in mind though. please explain the difference of what you are proposing (vs. coinworker) and why I should use it rather than coinworker... Title: Re: A bitcoin mechanical turk / fiverr clone Post by: ripper234 on October 09, 2012, 10:18:15 PM This never got off the ground. CoinWorker isn't really similar to what I had in mind though. please explain the difference of what you are proposing (vs. coinworker) and why I should use it rather than coinworker... Read the specs I linked to. CoinWorker is for limited, very specific tasks. I'm thinking of a buyer-oriented site, where individuals could create tasks suited for them (different skill levels / tags / price ranges). fiverr/mech turk don't fit this bill: fiverr - focus on task sellers (will do X for $5), focus on tasks in with specific price tag. Huge commission btw (20%!) mech turk - focus on presenting one task to a lot of people (I need 100 people to review this png and look for irregularities). |