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It might be irrational but people value what they buy by how much they spend. I remember when I left my last full time job I felt we were undercharging our customers. I went back to those same customers doing the same work and charged them three times as much as they had been paying. Their attitude towards me changed completely, I was really shocked at the difference, I'd gone from being a grunt who installed systems to a valued member of the team.
Note that there are a lot of things many people are willing to do for free but wouldn't do for $1. Such as answering this question.
That's because taking money for it interferes with the personal satisfaction of an altruistic or community-building or socially responsible act.
$1 from one individual involves a lot of overhead to complete a transaction (for your average person), but $1 from N people who each require a minimum of interaction can make much more economical sense. This can be multiplied by getting $1 from N people every X days.
Per the original question there's fairly little I'd be willing to provide to a single individual at $1, but in aggregate (high N, reasonable X) there's a number of viable options (mostly in the software realm).
1. First to remind me the things, I would be doing today. 2. Following up on the tasks, I am supposed to do today.
I tried to do using Alexa. Didn't go as expected.
There are groups of sailboats on longer voyages that keep in contact, often back to a base on land, over SSB. If you don't respond to the daily check in it is assumed something is wrong, and everyone is told about it and if anyone is close to your last position you hope they can look for you.
There's a lesson on don't price your app at $1.
This for example. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.halfbrick.... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.explodingk...
Service am I willing to provide for $1? Watch my favorite Netflix shows and give you a thumbs up or down :).
1. provide positive inspiration
2. provide an answer or at least initial research within 5 minutes of time. (using some automated tools I write)
3. provide a daily list of facts about that day at various points in time.
4. teach a child a simple task.
5. provide the top "movers and shakers" in the stock market from the last day.
Or if you are selling bitpay and other plugins for killbill, i'll gladly pay more.
This is kind of what Indeed is doing via the Job Spotter app. They pay users ~$1 for snapping photos of help wanted signs.
No, sorry. You now owe me $1.
