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Your idea. My tomorrow.
Each day, the highest bid sets a job for me to do the next day. I do it on camera and post the video. Any winning bid includes up to one hour.
100 ideas. Funny ones first. Pictures illustrate suggestions, not completed jobs.
Put me to work on something real.
What do you need?
Two ways to bid
Practical jobs go through the same bidding and the same rules. Any winning bid includes up to one hour, and each full $200 adds an hour.
- Free to bid
- 50¢ reserve
- Only the winner pays
From your idea to the video
How it works
You pick the job. The winning bid puts it on tomorrow's to-do list.
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Place a bid
Say what you want me to do and what you will pay for it. The reserve is 50 cents. Your job is checked against the rules before you can place the bid. If your idea costs money to do, such as fares, tickets or supplies, that cost is added on top of your bid, taxes and fees included, and you are shown the amount before you place the bid.
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The highest bid wins
Bidding closes each evening. The highest approved bid wins, and only the winner pays: their bid, plus any costs shown on it.
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Watch me do it
I do the job the next day, on camera. Nobody else sees what the job is until the video goes up.
I set the time. You set the challenge.
Every winning bid includes up to one hour. Each full $200 adds another hour to the cap. Longer jobs come to me to confirm the actual time before approval.
$210.00 — Turn a cardboard box into an arcade.
That bid allows up to two hours. I decide the actual time I will spend and confirm it before approving the job. Any extra costs are separate.
The bid board
Today's bids
Names and amounts are public. A job stays hidden until the video unless its poster opened it up.
| # | Bidder | Job | Bid | Placed |
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A bid only appears here after it passes the screen.
Place a bidA little perspective
What a bid covers
The first hour is included with any winning bid. Each full $200 in your bid adds one hour to the limit. I set the actual time spent within that limit, and confirm longer jobs before approval.
- 50¢–$199.99Up to 1 hour
- $200–$399.99Up to 2 hours
- $400–$599.99Up to 3 hours
- $600–$799.99Up to 4 hours
- $800–$999.99Up to 5 hours
Costs are extra
Fares, fuel, tickets, supplies and flights are added on top of your bid, with their taxes and fees included. You are shown the amount and what it is made of before you place the bid, and it stays beside your bid. If you win, it is charged to the same card along with your bid. Anything with a flight or a hotel gets a real quote first.
Travel counts
The time it takes me to get there and back is part of the job and counts toward its time limit.
Before you bid
The rules
A job can be hard, boring or inconvenient. It cannot be humiliating or harmful. If I would not want a ten-second clip of it shared without context, I will not do it.
Fine to ask for
- Jobs that are hard, boring, early, cold or inconvenient
- Kind jobs that help someone
- Jobs that take me out of my way
- Travel, if the bid covers the time and you cover the fare
Not allowed
- Anything illegal, dangerous or sexual
- Costumes, or anything that changes how I look
- Scripts. You choose what I do, not what I say
- Politics, religion or promoting a product
- Anything aimed at a specific person or a private address
- Causing a scene, or bothering people who are at work
- Anything involving my family, or people who have not agreed to it
- Live locations. I choose the time and post afterwards
Payment and fairness
- The reserve is 50¢. Only the winner pays: the winner's card is charged when bidding closes.
- A bid needs a card. Your bid, or your maximum if you set one, is held on the card and not charged. If you do not win, the hold is released when bidding closes. On a debit card it can take a few days to show again.
- Any winning bid includes up to one hour. Bids below $200 stop at one hour. $200–$399.99 allows up to two hours, $400–$599.99 up to three, and so on. I set the actual time within the cap; costs are extra.
- A bid has to meet the 50¢ reserve to count. That is the least a card can be charged, so every winner pays something.
- One win per person per week, and up to five jobs a day each.
- A new high bid in the last five minutes extends bidding by five minutes. While the bids keep climbing, bidding stays open.
- You choose whether your job is secret or open. A secret job stays hidden until the video. An open job is shown on the board, and anyone can add $2 or more to it. The job's total is what competes, so a crowd can outbid one big bidder. Everyone who adds money is charged only if that job wins.
- Sign in with Google or a link sent to your email to vote and comment on open jobs. Votes show interest; money decides who wins. Anyone with an account can comment. Swearing, slurs and attacks on anyone are not posted, and any comment can be reported.
- You can raise your bid as often as you like. Send the same job with a higher amount, and the same rules apply.
- Set a maximum and your bid rises on its own, one cent at a time, only when someone outbids you. Your maximum is never shown on the site.
- If the winner's card does not go through, the next highest bid wins.
- Names are screened too. If the screen is not sure, a person decides.
- I can decline any job. If I decline the winning bid, the winner is refunded in full.
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Your call
What should I do tomorrow?
The highest bid decides. The reserve is 50 cents.