Zubair Quraishi talks to Gianni of HUGS Platform. This platform allows micro tasks to be performed at scale. This is important as the future is the gig economy depends on companies and governments being able to get things done faster and cheaper via microtasks. Enjoy the episode!  

https://www.hugs.solutions/hugs-platform

00:00 Introduction 

00:30 What is HUGS? 

00:20 How HUGS compare to other Mechanical Turk style services? 

05:45 How did HUGS research the market? 

06:40 What is HUGS initial product and roadmap? 

10:01 Is HUGS going to be available on Blockchains other than Solana? 

11:25 Status of HUGS and the current release 

12:45 Specific examples of tasks that can be done better with HUGS microtasks, and how they are done today 

15:20 The HUGS reviewer system and how it compares to Wikipedia editing 

18:50 Staking of HUGS token and reputation 

21:45 How HUGS can help local governments save money 

22:30 What benefits are there to third party developers building on top of HUGS protocol? 

24:00 Growth of the micro tasking market and how to build an ecosystem by having an open platform 

25:30 Have non-crypto micro platforms like Task Rabbit tried to build similar systems? 

27:30 How organisations will be able to use the HUGS platform 

29:50 Has anyone tried to copy HUGs? 

32:00 Proof of concept of HUGS is already running 

32:20 Links and whitepaper