[PAID] Trust in an Online P2P Marketplace \ stacker news ~AGORA

[PAID] Trust in an Online P2P Marketplace

856 sats \ 4 comments \ @cryotosensei 24 Mar AGORA

zaps forwarded to @AG (50%)

@AG’s prompt was Trust in an Online P2P Marketplaces, no intermediaries, no support team.

People typically sell goods or services, so in order to flesh out my ideas, I will like to narrow the scope to services. In other words, this online P2P marketplace that is fuelled by the Lightning Network will function similarly to freelancer sites such as Fiverr.

Okay, I just came back from checking out Microlancer.io. Forwarding posts and joining Telegram groups are tasks beneath a diligent content creator, so in my ideal world, the online P2P marketplace will be populated with clients who genuinely seek human inputs when it comes to resolving their issues as well as experienced content creators who can provide satisfactory services.

How shall we make this online marketplace trustless, especially so when there is no support staff? I think the makers of this platform could invest in large language models - not to do the client’s work but to serve as a preliminary check of the quality of creators’ skills. Let’s say I am a client seeking someone to pen a book for my son. I could engage the platform to come up with a qualifying test and have prospective freelancers take it so that the AI tool can determine whether the freelancer has attempted it well enough.

This way, the AI tool acts as a second pair of eyes that provides inputs to help me determine which content creator I should hire. I am confident that this is feasible because the content management system in my country recently incorporated AI capabilities so that students’ responses could be graded according to marking rubrics. Surely, the online marketplace could integrate this technology.

I also think samples of the creators’ work would do well to enlighten the client in regard to their calibre. But there might be a problem with confidentiality issues. Clients will surely not want the creators they hire to publish the work as part of their portfolio. Hence, some creators will find it difficult to put up samples of their body of work on the platform.

In this case, I think I have an innovative solution. Why not set up a Challenge section within the site? The founders of the marketplace could pose questions and dish out 21-100 sats to all participants who answer these questions. The challenge could get the content creators to write a paragraph or two - enough material for the client to decide who to hire. That way, clients can feel assured of their creators’ proficiency levels.

Hope I kickstart a good discussion!

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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @AGORA 24 Mar

This is great, thanks for diving in and come up with these ideas. I don't think the use of Ai is required, especially in a p2p marketplace where trust is indirectly built over reputation and proof of work.

I'd add here that we work in the open, we build in public and the work someone did for a specific peer, could also be useful to others and the others, if in good fate, could also reward the creator and chip in with more zaps.

A great example I've seen of this is the Biz podcast that features John Carvalho (@BitcoinErrorLog) interviewing Bitcoin professionals about their valuable experiences as founders, product designers, lawyers, and entrepreneurs building the Bitcoin products of tomorrow.

With his crowdwall model, similar to traditional paywalls John aimed for a min amount of sats to be accumulated by one or more participants, and when the amount is reached, the item is released to the public. The first zapping win the advantage of getting the know-how before everyone else. It will be cool to see something similar here on @SN.

I've also seen another great example of collaborative task resolution in the ~design territory, where @itsTomekK recently had a PHOTOSHOP REQUEST. The bounty in this case has not been released thought SN "pay bounty" button, but you'll notice he fairly distributed the amount in the comments, splitting it across the submissions he found valuable.

It will be interesting to see the ~AGORA hosting this kind of requests, it will be fun to watch how everything will evolve.

Thanks for your contribution, it's much appreciated as it allows us to explore other possibilities.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsTomekK 24 Mar

Thank you for noticing my post and zaps! I also wish there was more different models and requests at ~Agora

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcoinrippin 24 Mar

This is a great idea, and in fact, I've implemented the marketplace here: https://bitcoinerfreelance.com

The goal of the site is to be a freelance marketplace where bitcoiners can buy and sell services using sats.

Trust is a very, very, very challenging problem and ive spent over 1 year working on it. the best that I can come up with a custodial model + buyer and seller reviews.

Currently the site is p2p payments, and just sellers have reviews so far. I will definitely have to implement reviews for buyers. The site started out as custodial, and i have since switched it to p2p payments, but I am looking to add back at least the option for payment custody.

There is always a risk of fraud in any marketplace - its inescapable, without the marketplace operator personally inspecting every order as its fulfilled. Therefore some element of trust is always needed. Hopefully, reviews will proved to be a good general guide for which sellers and buyers are reputable.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG fwd 24 Mar

Thank you, @cryotosensei, I was looking forward to having your view on this topic. I never thought about it in this way. Maybe I'm too materialistic, focusing my efforts to enable here the exchange and trade of goods and services.

The fact that SN could be used as fiverr alternative is a great idea, I like it! I just wonder how we could make stackers more aware of this possibility? 🤔 I need to think more about it.

I also do not enjoy Ai, at least not yet, as it feels always provide really random outputs, like guesses thrown out of thin air. Or maybe I'm just not good enough formulating my prompts. Anyhow, I'd not like to see any Ai around here, otherwise SN will lose it's beauty really easily. I think there was a proposal a time ago to have an implementation for creating a TLDR for long format posts... it was apparently disregarded.