“Just because you lack the skills to bring an idea to life, doesn’t mean it shouldn’t come alive.“
Take a moment to imagine a future where a catalogue of ideas, projects and companies existed, where anyone can jump into, complete a few tasks and be rewarded with a fraction of its ownership. I call it the Hive, a platform where ideas are born, projects find talent, and people look share their skills, regardless of their time or level of talent. How would such a tool work?
1. Browsing
In the Hive, you’ll navigate through projects as if they were concise pitch decks. Highlighting it’s mission statement, concept images, it’s progress including main roadblocks and expected completion dates.
The mission statement is crusual to entise helpers at this stage. Elon Musk wanted to setup a green house on mars. This surprisingly simple statement focused SpaceX on a launching things to Mars. Leading to cheaper reusable rockets, contract launches, and even a billionare funding the creation of their biggest rocket to date.
2. Contribution
You’ve found a project that resonates with you. Great! Now comes the part where you can help out. Each project will have its own public ticketing system with tasks sorted by skill, estimated amount of time required to help on that task, and amount of credit rewarded for completing this task.
Your skill level and amount of time should never stop you from being able to contribute to a project that interests you. No matter an artist, accountant, developer, dentist, architect, lawyer, skateboarder, or even a critic. If a project wants your help, you’re welcome to try and accomplish the task.
3. Validation & Credit
Once you’ve taken on a task, completed it and submitted it. Your work gets verified by multiple senior members of the project and validated that it matches the project criteria and mission statment.
Once tasks has been verified, you’re rewarded with a credit and get a evaluation rating by its members for it’s execution, skill, and timeliness. Your evaluations sticks around on your user profile so that you don’t have to prove that you’re a competent and skilled worker everytime.
Credits work as fractiontional ownership of that project. They that can be traded for other project credits or transferable to other users. A projects value can rise organically based on it’s outside investments.
That’s where I’m at so far with this idea. Think the Hive could work or fail? Send me your thoughts on twitter: @oneSaint.
