Jobsy creates value for people
A person gets help when they need it.
- Job search
- Useful information
- Answers
- Experience of other people
Jobsy Waves
Value can move in both directions.
Jobsy helps people. People also help Jobsy and each other.
Jobsy Waves is our experiment for understanding useful human contribution and, over time, finding a fair way to return part of created value to the people who helped create it.
Two directions of value
Jobsy -> personSearch, information, answers, other people's experience
Jobsy Waves
Person -> Jobsy + other peopleQuestions, comments, experience, advice, feedback, sharing useful information
People create value too
Jobsy becomes more useful because people participate.
- Questions
- Comments
- Experience
- Advice
- Feedback
- Sharing useful information
Real human value
You do not need to be an expert.
A useful contribution can be one real detail from something you lived through, tried, solved or learned.
Illustrative example
I worked through this staffing agency in Sweden. They do take people without Swedish, but English is needed at the interview.
One comment like this might help another person tomorrow, help many people over time, or help Jobsy understand something official information does not explain well.
The difficult question
But how do we measure usefulness?
A comment with 5,000 views is not automatically more useful than a comment seen by 50 people.
Ten comments are not automatically more valuable than one excellent answer. A popular opinion is not automatically a correct or useful one.
What the pilot should teach us
- Did people find it useful?
- Did it answer a real question?
- Does it remain useful over time?
- Do other people confirm or improve it?
- Does it help useful information reach more people?
- Does it contribute to real outcomes?
The main principle
Our goal is not to pay for comments.
Our goal is to learn how to reward usefulness.
Next question
But where do we start?
We do not yet know how to honestly measure the monetary value of a useful comment, someone's experience, a good answer or helpful advice.
We do not want to pretend that we already know. So we start by learning before trying to build a full monetization model.
Start with what can be measured
One simple signal is helping someone discover Jobsy.
A registered user can share useful Jobsy content. If another person comes through their personal attribution, Jobsy can see that a Wave started there.
This is one measurable part of the current pilot. It is not the definition of Jobsy Waves.
Current simple experiment
Yes, €1 for a first payment is a simple mechanism.
If our only goal were to pay for new users, we would not need Jobsy Waves.
This is one of the first simple monetary experiments inside Jobsy Waves, because it creates a clear measurable outcome.
€1When someone in your Wave makes their first Jobsy Active payment, Jobsy creates a €1 Wave Reward. It moves back along the chain: €0.50 → €0.25 → €0.125 → €0.0625 → … up to 12 levels. Each next level receives half.
Example: You → Anna → Mark → Sofia. Sofia pays for Jobsy Active. Mark receives €0.50, Anna €0.25, you €0.125. If there are more people above you, the split continues by the same formula, up to 12 levels.
The buyer receives nothing for their own purchase. If a level in the chain is missing, its share is not passed on to anyone.
Once, for the first payment, not every month. You do not need Jobsy Active yourself to receive Wave Rewards.
The bigger question
But what if a person did not introduce anyone?
- What if one answer helped hundreds of people?
- What if their experience made a Jobsy article much more useful?
- What if they corrected outdated information?
- What if one question revealed a problem thousands of people also had?
- What if their feedback helped improve Jobsy for everyone?
Why Waves exists
Is that value too?
We think it is. Now we need to learn how to see it, measure it and recognize it fairly.
This is the real reason Jobsy Waves exists.
Help us learn
Help us understand what is truly worth paying for.
We could invent a table today: comment = X, view = Y, question = Z. But that would only be our guess.
People would quickly start optimizing for points and activity instead of usefulness. We want to do the opposite.
- Share what you genuinely know.
- Ask questions that need better answers.
- Add useful details or correct outdated information.
- Tell us what actually helped and what did not work.
The journey
TodayWe can measure an introduction.
Future directionWe want to learn how to understand usefulness.
Future direction means a question we are exploring, not a promise of future payment.
Current pilot
Small indicators, separate meanings.
Waves1,284 JBW
Rewards€8
- JBW / Waves is a pilot indicator. It is not money, cryptocurrency or an investment.
- JBW and EUR are separate. JBW is not EUR, has no fixed EUR value and cannot be exchanged for EUR.
- Rewards / EUR are monetary rewards already earned under current pilot rules.
- Users can accumulate JBW without having Jobsy Active.
- Current minimum Rewards payout request: €50.
Practical section
How to create Waves
A Wave does not begin when you advertise Jobsy. A Wave begins when you send something useful further.
When a logged-in user uses Share on supported Jobsy content, their personal attribution can be attached to the shared link automatically. The user does not need to manually create a referral link. This helps Jobsy understand where a Wave started.
Illustrative example
A blogger finds a Jobsy article about changing profession after 40 in Germany. Instead of advertising Jobsy, they ask their audience: “Who changed profession after 40? What was the hardest part?” Then they share the article and invite people to add their own experience.
Useful article
Your opinion
Conversation
Other people's experience
New useful knowledge
Next Wave
You do not need a large audience. You do not need to be a blogger. You do not need to be an expert.
More links ≠ more value. More comments ≠ more value.
You do not need to share Jobsy everywhere. Share when the material can genuinely be useful to someone.
Your contribution starts now.
During the pilot, Jobsy begins building a history of Waves and participation so we can learn which actions actually create useful value. We do not yet know how this history will affect the future reward model. Today, JBW is not money and has no fixed euro value. The pilot exists to help us search for a fair model.
You are not only participating in Waves. You are helping us understand what Waves should become.
Useful information can start a Wave. A conversation can make it bigger. Other people's experience can make it more valuable. Jobsy should learn to understand that.
Build it together
We want to invent this together.
We do not want to decide in advance what every human action is worth. We want to learn from what people actually ask, know, improve and find useful.
Today, Jobsy Waves is the beginning of an experiment. We do not know the perfect formula yet, and we do not want to pretend that we do. What Waves becomes should depend on what truly helps people.