Excited for this! Added myself to a couple of lists to make 💰) All 💰 auto-donated to @BlackGirlsCode

All of the excited for lists! Customer development, recruiting, sales leads, networking, product development, competitive research, industry research, content development.... woot!

This was the natural next evolution of 21.co. Can't wait to see what's next.

Hi everyone! The first version of 21.co allowed individuals to replace their public emails with an inbox where people could pay to reach them. We released it in February and it proved a hit with many of you here: https://www.producthunt.com/post... Today we've put out a major new release called 21 Lists with features for both individuals and businesses. 1) For individuals, the big new thing is that you can now apply to 21 lists to receive a stream of targeted, paid microtasks. For example, if you are a Javascript engineer, go here: https://21.co/javascript/join Or if you are a Stanford student, go here: https://21.co/stanford/join And see all the lists you can join here: https://21.co/lists We'll be adding many more, but go ahead and apply to any of those lists now if they fit you. If accepted, you get access to a new kind of "newsfeed", one in which every item in the feed compensates you for your time. And you don't need to be famous to attract traffic! 2) For businesses, the big new thing is a one-click interface to send out a new kind of mass message: one that directly compensates every recipient for their time. During our soft launch period, companies like HelloOffice and SSI have already been using this to send out paid mass emails and surveys. Amazingly, these initial senders have seen 40-60% response rates at the scale of 100-1000+ users, with 90% of those respondents typically replying within 24 hours. These numbers are very high relative to typical cold email or survey response rates, which hover at 1-2% response rates. If you are interested in trying an experiment to see if your sales or recruiting leads will also respond quickly to paid messages through 21, do get in touch at sales@21.co. So in short, we've provided tools for individuals to make money online and for businesses to get rapid responses to cold emails, surveys, and tasks. We hope you like them! As many others have observed, if businesses could actually pay users for their time, at scale, for those applications where it made economic sense -- the internet could be a very different place. For more detail, please see these blog posts: - 21 Lists for individuals: https://medium.com/@21/make-mone... - 21 Lists for businesses: https://medium.com/@21/send-paid...

Nice idea! That would be also cool to be able to get some info about charities on the page where you can choose one, as I've never heard of them and need to open a separate tab, type their names and google.

Great work @balajis and the @21 team! You teased this during the Product Hunt Live chat and I was one of those people responding to those soft-launch surveys. 🙂 I've applied to a couple of lists (designers, founders, etc.). I love the idea from both sides—as an individual and as a business. Y'all can find me here: https://21.co/KunalsLab (💰 to @BlackGirlsCode) Where can we make suggestions for lists?

Signed up @ https://21.co/dwilliams/ - Donating. :)

Great concept. Signed-up but not receiving the activation email. Tried resending a few times but still none.

Recruiters pay for my time? LIke the idea Dope🚬

I've been wanting something new and more targeted than MTurk by Amazon and I think this will be it. The list making feature is really awesome and based on what Balaji has told me, there is a promising future in doing way more than surveys and messages. Looking forward. Nice work!

the app keeps logging me out..

Perfect example of how money can be used for good. Game changer!

Interesting concept. I went through the signup and the onboarding process could use some polishing... especially the part where you can link to LinkedIn and Github accounts. Also, I could not get verified because it would not accept my "work" account. I don't even really know what that means. I upvoted anyway because I'm interested to see how this works.

Finally made my 21.co account

This is awesome, joining lists now :)

This is awesome, I just signed up! How long does the verification process typically take?

I am there for about 6 months, but no one has contacted me yet :D

@balajis I am loving this product. But how do you gonna ensure there is not much noise in the ecosystem? In a way adding genuine professionals to the lists /surveys that really relate to them and add value for the payer.

https://21.co/1rafy/ - Joined. Profile under review.

Signed up just now and paid $100 to ask a very senior exec a question about a product of mine. Will be worth the $100 just for them to have seen it. Here's hoping.