Subscribe
Sign in
21.co — Replace your public email with an inbox that pays you.
The 21 app allows you to earn bitcoin in exchange for answering messages and completing tasks. After answering a message or completing a task, you will receive a task reward in bitcoin.
124
Replies
I just received an email from their support telling me to change my username because the one I chose is "reserved". Hardly seems like a replacement for your public email unless it's constant. What if I had printed business cards with my 21.co name?
Was so glad to see this post pop up in my Medium feed by @ntmoney "Earn Anywhere with the 21 App" https://thecontrol.co/earn-anywh...
@danruswick We were under heavy load and just added capacity. Try again?
@drew23 Both great ideas that we will incorporate! Relatedly, we are working on Slack-style magic links to make mobile signup even easier.
Just created my 21 profile and excited to give it a spin. Big fan of @balajis and team !
21 allows you to replace your public email with an inbox that pays you. The idea is that you set up a 21 profile (like 21.co/naval) and people outside your network can now pay to contact you. You can keep the money or donate it to charity. It's like LinkedIn InMail, except you actually get paid :) And we use bitcoin under the hood, so it works in any country.
You can sign up for a profile and answer messages on either web (at 21.co) or mobile (at ios.21.co).
Note that "answering a message" is only the simplest task that the 21 webapp and app support. You can also complete surveys and do more complex things. You will see one of these surveys in the tutorial when you boot up the app; more are coming. But right now, the primary source of tasks will be paid messages to you from people outside your network. And the simplest way to solicit more such messages is to put your 21.co profile link on your homepage or Twitter bio, like this or this.
@balajis Super! logged in via facebook, created username, verified email, had prompt to login again, did so, login window persists... am logged in and can click other tabs but that initial empty state is confusing IMHO. Looking forward to using this and adding other nonprofits 👏
@balajis This was one of the cleanest launches I've ever seen. Signed up on web, got the email verification notification on my phone, which linked to the ios app, everything worked seamlessly, and both products felt very mature. Logo and UX are very well done. I'm quite impressed!
Top Hunter
This is a pretty interesting product... Check out—here's my profile: http://21.co/chrismessina
I have an account! Hit me up -- http://21.co/benparr
But really, it's an exciting and cool feature for external communication. I'm looking forward to seeing it evolve and grow!
I'm a bit confused with the authorization asked when linking my coinbase account. It can buy bitcoin on my behalf, overcome the 2-step check process to send 100 USD... So basically it can steal bitcoin from my account or did I get this wrong?
@asatwork I found this very confusing as well, didn't link as a result. Needed way too many permissions that weren't explained.
@asatwork Hi Alexandre, great feedback and we're going to remove that permission. It is a historical holdover from the command line version of the API, which allowed you to buy bitcoin for use in applications.
@johnbrett_ @asatwork John, completely agreed. As noted in my comment above, we will remove those extraneous permissions; they are due to historical factors.
Oh man, the survey feature is a very neat idea! I knew about the paid email feature, but surveys could be just as big.
Awesome stuff found you guys via the Launch ticker of @jason :-) testing it out as we speak! Although my first impression was more of a "marketing survey" tool than "LinkedIn Mail replacement".. based on the descriptions I read.
I would prefer to verify my identity using AngelList - I don't have a LinkedIn account 😆
@chadwhitaker I don't have one either and can't figure out another way to be verified.
@nhuebecker @chadwhitaker Right now, you can email verify@21.co and we'll take care of you. As context, we've had a crush of signups recently and are working hard on streamlining the process. Starting next week, verification will be integrated with signup on both web & mobile, and we will give you a timeline on how long verification will take (it should be quick once that's up and running).
Summer Bod 2020