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Anyone interested in a small tasks job board?
by
BikeGuy
on 24/09/2011, 17:50:32 UTC
I'm quite new to Bitcoin, and have been hunting around for sources of income.  Looks like the best way, if you don't want to put regular currency in, would be to work for coins.  I would be interested in doing small tasks, but don't think that any of the current job boards are great.  I am a web developer (about 1.5 - 2 years now, not really a noob), and would jump into a new website, but first want to make sure that there is a market, before doing much.  I would appreciate feedback on the ideas below.

Ideas:
A small jobs board, sort of like Amazon's Turk, but with Bitcoins (and possibly other currencies, but Bitcoin to start).

"Tasks" listed, not jobs by each person.  (So, a translation page would contain sub-pages for, say, English to Spanish, English to French, and so on, and each of those could contain the actual quotes and prices for each person interested in the task)

Simple "workers" system, so each worker could submit work, and have work protected (watermarked images perhaps?) before getting payout.

Organized both by jobs and freelancers, so someone who needed a webpage translated or someone good at translating webpages could both post tasks.

The site would be geared towards legal and ethical tasks.  I think there are enough out there, and I don't want to support those tasks.

Posting would be free, I don't know if the site could run on donations, small fees from payouts, advertising, or even the Java miner, but something could work out.

Possible Tasks:
Translation
Grammar checking (for people writing in foreign languages, or getting something translated, etc.)
Page drafting (ex. for websites homepage or FAQs)
Feedback (on websites, printed materials, writing, etc.)

Am I going to get any support from the community?  I don't want to shell out the money for a domain and host, and not have any people come.  Would anyone donate to get us off the ground?  (Not that we are going to accept donations yet, I have no clue if I am going to go through with this or not)