Nomadtask

Reinvent grassroots marketing: let makers crowdsource cheap, authentic promotion and pay a global pool of digital nomads in crypto / USD-pegged rewards.

After the February 2020 relaunch it passed 80,000+ sign-ups and hit strong active-user growth (peak ~39K MAU / ~29K WAU / ~11K DAU). It went viral on YouTube. A creator with ~490K subscribers featured it in a video that drew 1M+ views and 1,400+ comments, and an ~80K-subscriber creator's video drew 221K views and 300+ comments, driving large organic sign-up waves.

Popularity became the problem. As the platform blew up, abusers flooded in (concentrated in a few countries, e.g. Bangladesh, Nigeria), and fighting abuse soaked up disproportionate engineering/ops resources. At the same time the "earn online / side-income" space turned into a red ocean, competition intensified, and profitability eroded.

Cemented the quest / task-incentive marketplace model in our playbook (the through-line to Hunt Tip grants and Clap) and proved HUNT as a reward currency beyond Steem.