I took a leap of faith and signed up. All i see after completing the FB and Twitter tasks is "Sorry, but no projects are available for you at the moment. Please pick a different category." but there is no way to select a category.
Very disappointing / frustrating UX.
The hoops that I went through to find out more. Please don't do that. Put links to most of the info up front, not just the investor elevator pitch. How much do people get paid? How are they paid? Does it have Skrill integration for those who can't use Paypal? Cheques? So many questions unanswered. I give up. NEXT!
I would put a paragraph describing the value proposition somewhere either on front page or linked from it for both people posting tasks and consuming them.
Edit: linking to the main site from the landing page would solve that problem.
I downloaded the app and signed up, but the only tasks I see are follow on Twitter/Facebook. Are there any actual tasks that I can start doing? Do I have to do those follows first to see the actual tasks?
Everyone is complaining about the terrible usability and lack of information. Then why the hell is this on the front page? I sense someone is trying to game the system here on HN.
1. There are data entry tasks, writing descriptions for online shops, filling out surveys etc. We are looking for partners who have smaller tasks like this that they would like to see completed by our almost 70,000 users now.
2. It's targeted to people who are often on the road, where they have spare time that they want to use to make money. Students, freelancers, travelers come to mind.
3. Tasks vary between mini tasks of <$1 that can be done very quickly and tasks for $10+, which users see later once they have had several tasks approved by our clients, so that we know that they can complete work reliably.
Selling my privacy you mean ? I guess this will be your biggest source of revenues. People do not seem to mind to sell theirs for a few dimes. But not something I will do easily.
> writing descriptions for online shops
So this would be like 'Do you own one of these machines ?' and then I can pick one and write 'Best dishwasher ever !' to earn an easy dollar ? If so, this is getting morally offensive.
Filling out surveys = providing your opinion. Could be completely anonymous.
Writing descriptions for online shops = writing product descriptions for shops who add a lot of inventory but need human-written and unique descriptions.
Too much of a mystery to proceed further.