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Re: Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered by blockchain

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This looks super nice!! How's the process for setting a task to "completed"? Can that be exploited? How does the Automated jury process work?

Here's a quote from a Forbes article: "With a review system like that of CryptoTask, reviewers are token holders that stake an amount equal to the task value that they are putting themselves forward for as a potential reviewer. It means that being a stakeholder, you already have a chance of being selected. That chance is directly proportional to that individual's stake, so this prevents sybil attacks.

If they do, however, get randomly selected to be a reviewer and the task goes into dispute, they are required to cast a vote on whether or not they think the task was actually completed. If a reviewer votes against the consensus or does not vote at all, they do not lose any certain percentage of their staked amount.

Some of the benefits of such a system include:

    Selection happens in secret to prevent reviewers from influencing the consensus through collusion.
    A two-stage voting process (secret commit and then reveal) means reviewers can’t wait to see how other reviewers voted and then just go with the consensus.
    Reviewers would generally be professionals with a relatively large token stake and therefore in a good position to escalate and vote on a dispute."
This would sum up dispute system with incentive for reviewers being 10% of the task value split among them.

Re: Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered by blockchain

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This is pretty neat but can you help me understand the core difference between this and Braintrust? How are you making this easy/trustworthy for the demand side of the platform to use? My learnings from a few years in the space (for context, I was early at Gigster, then went to Germany to help build a freelance dev platform for the EU market and now am at Tribe.AI where we specialize in AI focused freelance work with…

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Re: Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered by blockchain

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post #16

For me as a freelancer the fundamental question was always: "how much money will be in my bank account when I take this job". Yes there is risk of non payment and hidden fees that I don't anticipate but the main driver was the rate of the gig. I was not able to find that information on the platform looking at the jobs tab. Most of the value was "negotiable". But leaving that aside, it seems that "value" is not what w…

Do you get most work through marketplaces like this or via people you wish have a connection with? I'm really interested in knowing if you could make a "good" living on these marketplaces if you want to sustain a middle class lifestyle as an adult with kids in Canada or the US (let's leave it the most expensive real estate regions). I briefly reviewed this space several years ago and didn't think it would pay enough to even remotely compete with more traditional employment, especially when you consider factors like "doing your taxes" and healthcare.

Re: Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered by blockchain

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post #14
post #5

Hey, great job on the landing page, it looks good! Two questions: - How are you coping with expensive gas on main net right now? - Do you have a document describing how your token works on a technical level. Like a spec or so. Thanks and good luck!

There are a couple of medium posts describing technical background of the platform and token itself such as: https://cryptotask.medium.com/cryptotask-combines-defr-and-d... https://cryptotask.medium.com/technical-background-of-crypto... We are running on AEternity blockchain ( https://aeternity.com/ ), making gas fees sufficiently low. There have been 19.5k transactions https://www.aeknow.org/contract/detail/ct_X3szY…

Ooof, didn't know you were running on AEternity. That in itself would be a no for me. I would definitely love to participate if there was a decision to move to ETH when Optimism is released.

Re: Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered by blockchain

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post #16

For me as a freelancer the fundamental question was always: "how much money will be in my bank account when I take this job". Yes there is risk of non payment and hidden fees that I don't anticipate but the main driver was the rate of the gig. I was not able to find that information on the platform looking at the jobs tab. Most of the value was "negotiable". But leaving that aside, it seems that "value" is not what w…

We are about to resolve content quality issues in future updates. CryptoTask platform would take 0% if you don't use escrow system, giving you 100% of completed task value. If you decide to use an escrow system, platform would take 3% from total task value. About 70% - There's affiliate system, which allows for freelancer who can't find a job themselves, rely on a headhunter type of users, who'd connect freelancer with a client. 10% from the total task value goes to the platform, where 20% of the task value is meant for a headhunter. As both systems are still in development (development roadmap can be found no https://about.cryptotask.org/), percentage of task value going to headhunter could potentially be manually set.

Re: Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered by blockchain

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post #24
post #16

For me as a freelancer the fundamental question was always: "how much money will be in my bank account when I take this job". Yes there is risk of non payment and hidden fees that I don't anticipate but the main driver was the rate of the gig. I was not able to find that information on the platform looking at the jobs tab. Most of the value was "negotiable". But leaving that aside, it seems that "value" is not what w…

Do you get most work through marketplaces like this or via people you wish have a connection with? I'm really interested in knowing if you could make a "good" living on these marketplaces if you want to sustain a middle class lifestyle as an adult with kids in Canada or the US (let's leave it the most expensive real estate regions). I briefly reviewed this space several years ago and didn't think it would pay enough…

In the meantime I stopped freelancing but I had 5 longer running gigs in total (+ a few shorter term gigs).

All of these gigs I got through different channels.

Only 1 was through a platform, but it was one of those higher playing platforms where you had to go through an application process which included building a project without being paid (I was living in the US while I was working through this platform)

So in essence: I think it's possible but not on all platforms.

Re: Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered by blockchain

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post #26
post #16

For me as a freelancer the fundamental question was always: "how much money will be in my bank account when I take this job". Yes there is risk of non payment and hidden fees that I don't anticipate but the main driver was the rate of the gig. I was not able to find that information on the platform looking at the jobs tab. Most of the value was "negotiable". But leaving that aside, it seems that "value" is not what w…

We are about to resolve content quality issues in future updates. CryptoTask platform would take 0% if you don't use escrow system, giving you 100% of completed task value. If you decide to use an escrow system, platform would take 3% from total task value. About 70% - There's affiliate system, which allows for freelancer who can't find a job themselves, rely on a headhunter type of users, who'd connect freelancer wi…

I still don't get how the platform would take only 3% but I only get 70% of the value.

Re: Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered by blockchain

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post #14
post #5

Hey, great job on the landing page, it looks good! Two questions: - How are you coping with expensive gas on main net right now? - Do you have a document describing how your token works on a technical level. Like a spec or so. Thanks and good luck!

There are a couple of medium posts describing technical background of the platform and token itself such as: https://cryptotask.medium.com/cryptotask-combines-defr-and-d... https://cryptotask.medium.com/technical-background-of-crypto... We are running on AEternity blockchain ( https://aeternity.com/ ), making gas fees sufficiently low. There have been 19.5k transactions https://www.aeknow.org/contract/detail/ct_X3szY…

On AEternity! Wow, I've participated in their ICO back then.

Thanks for the details, I'll take a look.

Re: Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered by blockchain

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post #19

> 0% fee > Uniswap pair With current gas prices, this unfortunately seems like a contradiction.

Gas prices are a given so generally aren't listed as a fee since it's intrinsic to the network.

Can you imagine if your bank charged you to write a check?

I don't understand how people are okay with gas prices being a given.

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