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Earn.com — Earn money for replying to emails and completing tasks.
Use Earn.com to earn digital currency by replying to emails and completing tasks. It works on your phone, in any country, with no need for a bank account.
Since the last time we were on ProductHunt as 21.co, we've launched Gmail integration, mass messaging, search, public tasks, and even monetizable email lists. Come check us out at Earn.com!
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@toddg777 Users are sending quite a lot of tasks today already across several verticals, like ICOs, market research, recruiting, and sales. For example:
1) Launch your ICO by messaging folks through earn.com/digital-currency
2) Research the blockchain space or get feedback on your whitepaper by messaging earn.com/blockchain
3) Hire remote JS developers by contacting earn.com/javascript
4) Find people who want to buy your product by contacting earn.com/ceos and earn.com/founders
@balajis That's cool. It seems like earn's lists are a smarter way to connect parties with mutual interests vs. say doing cold outreach or buying a list. However, these don't seem like "tasks" to me in the typical sense. To @chrismessina 's point, do you eventually see the network evolving to more like Mturk where tasks are clearly defined, performed, and compensated?
@chrismessina @toddg777 Right, our thinking is that it *starts* as a way to replace cold email or list buying. But once you can pay someone to reply to an email, you can pay someone to complete a task as well - like filling out a survey or uploading a photo.
This is actually really useful for sales. Use Earn.com to send out a quick/cheap single-question qualifying survey to 1000 engineers to identify prospective buyers (eg “Do you use containers in production? Yes/No”). Then retarget everyone who says “Yes” with a more expensive followup email to set up a meeting.
So that combines both a task ("fill out a survey") and an email ("send an email to everyone who answers like this to the survey") in a two-stage pipeline. And because the sales rep is paying every recipient, they typically see a 70%+ response rate in 24 hours (which is very high relative to the usual 1.7% cold email response rate). The sales rep may still get a no, but it’s a quick no from a highly qualified list. It's a very fast way to do lead gen.
@balajis this is the best part. Distributed tasks allow earn.com to focus on user experience. The network will have plenty of definitions of what constitutes a “task.” That just leaves dynamic pricing: task creators constituting price-per-task.
I've had several people who reached out cold to ME bounce back an earn.com message after I responded recently. It is extremely infuriating - how avoidable is that?
I love this idea and product. Makes a ton of sense for software engineers, execs pitched by lots of vendors, etc. Fun anecdote... I earned $1.25's worth of bitcoin in January while testing Earn.com and it's now worth $12.31 haha
Hi everyone! We’ve launched many new features since the last time we were on ProductHunt, including:
- Gmail integration
- Paid mass emails
- Budgets
- Shareable public tasks
- Paid surveys
- Search
- Monetizable conference directories and email lists
In total, what this means is that you can set up an profile, join a set of lists, and start getting paid tasks from Earn.com senders. You can also set up a Gmail integration to get more paid tasks by bouncing messages from outside your contact book and asking them to pay you. And if you’re really into it, you can even turn your email list or conference directory into a monetizable asset, such that both you and your list members/attendees get paid.
Given that all these features let you earn digital currency online, we recently rebranded from 21.co to Earn.com to better convey what we’re doing. With Earn.com, users earn money online, and senders pay users to reply to emails and complete tasks. It’s like a better version of LinkedIn InMail.
The next big step for us is to launch our new token, which is coming in a few weeks. If you sign up at that link today, you can get verified and get on the token waitlist. Between now and the token launch, you’ll earn bitcoin for completing tasks and replying to emails. Once the token launch happens, you’ll get free tokens simply for being an early adopter, and a bunch more tokens for inviting other verified users.
We’ve set it up such that early adopters receive the most tokens, because the token reward halves every time the user base doubles. The overall idea is to create one of the first “better-than-free” business models, in which the users of a social network capture some of that network’s value by earning tokens.
Anyway, that’s a summary of (a) what we’ve shipped recently, (b) the Earn.com rebrand, and (c) our upcoming token. Let me know if you have any questions. And if you’re a designer, security engineer, or data scientist, we are hiring!
@thatmattgardner Yep, so long as you have a verified profile you are grandfathered and don't need to do anything else :)
@balajis answer my messages on facebook and twitter and in your internal chat! Let me withdraw my earnings!!!
No reply for a week, here's a screenshot https://yadi.sk/i/zioE_w093SwrjK
Primarily a rebranding of 21.co, but maybe also proving that ".com" domains still matter?
I think it's wrong to declare that Earn.com is the "first token-based social network" since Steemit already exists and Refind has its Relevance Coin, (get some here!) but it's cool to see this general trend.
@chrismessina 1) Yep, we thought that Earn.com helps make the ideas more accessible to a mainstream audience -- everyone knows what "earn" means, it immediately suggests what the product does, the ".com" means people don't mistype it, and they don't need to know that there are 21 million BTC to understand the name :)
2) That's also a reasonable point re: Steemit -- though normally people don't refer to Reddit as a social network to the same extent they do for LinkedIn/Facebook/Twitter, as the focus is mostly on interactions with news articles vs with other folks. The profile page is less of an emphasis for Steemit. At least, that's how we were thinking about it.
If you think of Reddit as a social network, then Steemit is one as well. If you think of a social network as more like Linkedin/FB/Twitter (with more emphasis on real names/profile pages/profile photos/messaging/etc), then I think that space is still wide open. But we might think about another way to get the concept across.
@balajis yeah, interesting points! Steemit is paying users for popular content (similar to Medium's model with claps); in your case, users pay for access/attention given some externally determined value. The difference is whether you focus on the social progenitor or the social objects. They're clearly related, but don't have to be. You can remove identity and pay anonymous authors for valued contributions or you can put a toll up to access popular identities. Both are networks — but, to channel Jobs, are more a matter of emphasis.
There are several other cryptocurrencies attempting to enable users to monetize their data (Datum, BitClave, DataWallet, BAT, Blockstack), but I struggle to see how that works unless there's a market created for that data that values the individual's contributions over a collective's. Ultimately I guess my question is whether you're competing with Mechanical Turk, and users decide to set a threshold on how much they're willing to accept to perform certain low value tasks, or if you're more like a cryptocurrency-based influencer network (Fohr Card, et al)?
@chrismessina we're working on a structured data exchange for public domain data (i.e. *not* personal data, so different from Datum, DataWallet etc. the requirements/solution are very different). Do you have a particular interest in this space?
@_jeremiahs I do. I've long been interested in digital identity (I helped popularize OAuth and was on the board of the OpenID Foundation). I've been long on the value of digital identity and the value of "data capital" for a long time
@chrismessina Just read the piece 👍 . I think what's tricky when considering data as a currency/asset is that unlike traditional currency/assets it can be duplicated for free, which makes valuing and exchanging it challenging. It seems what we're working on might be of interest to you, can send you a blurb?
@davidlincanada Yes, this helps us cut down on sybil attacks and fake accounts. We figured it's not that much overhead for real users to verify access to at least one work/school email account. Let us know if you have any problems getting verified!
@davidlincanada @balajis Sir earn dot com support and services has a pathetic way to deal the concerns for days . Support team is least bothered to reply to any concerns raised for days
@matthui In the next few weeks! Go check out a preview at https://earn.com/token
Interesting idea! I just registered. Can't wait to get verified and see how it works!
Mainly focused on blockchain and cryptos subjects atm...
Pros:It works !
Cons:Inhabitual
Huge fan of Earn.com/21.co. I’ve had some great opportunities pitched to me via the messages I’ve received (and made some money out of replying to messages too, which never hurts!) Can’t wait to see where the platform grows in the future after building a core competency in the messaging model for now.
I've made about $100 by reading about new ICOs, yet when I try to withdraw, I get a message that my account is suspended, I get logged out.
I can log back in again and use the system though.
I have written messages in the internal chat, on Facebook and twitter and not a single reply. I get a feeling that this whole thing is a scam!
Has anyone got any payouts from them?
Pros:Get paid to read about things that interest you.
Cons:Can't withdraw earnings, no replies from support
I week, no replies, they didn't even view my message
here's the screenshot
https://yadi.sk/i/zioE_w093SwrjK
I did! I tried last week and I got about $30 to my coinbase account and all good so far. I was a bit sceptical about it so I didn't wait much until the first release. And it worked.
How do earn money from earn.com I'm doing only task I need more earn money please help me how do find read email I don't understand
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@arunsathiya On their blog, they mention that all previous 21.co URLs will redirect to the new URL. You can read more here: https://news.earn.com/21-co-is-n... cc: @balajis
@oguzbilgic Lot of respect for Justin. My understanding is that with Whale 2.0 they moved in a very different direction by removing coins, and I think they are doing Polly now, an anonymous survey app (which I think is like the tbh product recently acquired by Facebook). But I don't think they are doing paid messages anymore, so Earn.com is very different.
I have been using Earn for a while, since the 21.co days. I never cashed out, but BTC went up a lot. Is the exchange rate only determined at the time of cash out?
@rhlsthrm AFAIK, no. You keep getting the BTC as at the time of the message. Your value goes up as BTC goes up.
@rhlsthrm Let the maker explain, but I think you are wrong i.e. bitcoin rates are determined at cash out. You receive and hold the earnings in USD.
For example, if I cash out today my earning through the past months of $91.55 I get ฿0.0129 that is 7,096 per bitcoin.
@rhlsthrm We pay you in BTC. And that’s what you cash out. So it will go up or down in USD value if USD fluctuates. It’s like having an overseas contractor who we pay in their local currency of Euros or Yen.
@balajis understood, but I am wondering when the exchange rate is determined. Is it determined only when I cash out, or is each payment done at the time of answering the questions?
@andypngr Actually, you don't have to connect your Coinbase account and you *can* just provide a Bitcoin address! Just click your balance in the top right corner on desktop and you'll get an option to paste in a Bitcoin address or link your Coinbase.
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