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Chris Messina

Yup - Get paid for your likes on top platforms like Twitter

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There are >300m curators who've never made a dime off their influence. Yup allows them to earn from their engagement without changing their behavior. At scale, Yup provides clarity on what's socially valuable to each user and fixes incentives around social.

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Nir Kabessa
Maker
Hey PH! We're so excited to share Yup with the world. Thanks Chris for the hunt 🔥 TL;DR - Yup pays you for likes/upvotes on top platforms (Twitter, YouTube, etc.) https://yup.io 🧐 The Problem We spend our days endlessly liking things, curating the web, but never get paid for it. Why? 😭 The creator economy has exploded over the last few years, but curators are still left empty handed. 🤲🏻 🤑 The Solution Enter Yup, the curator economy that rewards users for their likes. It tracks your influence and distributes money from a pool every day based on top likes 👍🏿 You don't earn directly from your like but from the influential likes that come after you. It's kind of like betting with your clout on social media content 💱 Being early is important, being right is even better 🙌🏽 Sign up in 2 clicks with Twitter and immediately start earning. Then download the Yup Extension to manage your money and rate any site on the web 🌐 💸 The Economy: Where does the money come from? While hard to believe, this is not a trick. Yup uses fancy cryptoeconomics to reward curators from a fresh supply of YUP tokens every day, instantly redeemable for cash. The demand for these tokens come from users and businesses looking to boost their influence or make big bets on specific content. When demand meets supply, the tokens are valuable and liquid. (More here: https://yupprotocol.org) Get ready for the curator economy 🚀
VivekoMON
@pinkhoodie interesting project! Have you looked into Ethereum.world ? :)
Tadeusz Szewczyk (Tad Chef)
Intriguing! I'd love for it to work. Yet as of now it looks to good to be true. There are some obvious questions: What are the privacy implications of this? I guess you have to track every single move of your users to ensure accuracy. Also I guess the money you can earn per like is negligible like with similar setups in the past?
Nir Kabessa
Maker
@onreact These are great questions, thanks for asking! The only data we need to track are likes, follows, and comments. The extension also knows what site you are on (in order to know when to trigger) but does so locally and doesn't store that data. We are open-sourcing the extension soon so people can see for themselves. In terms of money, we expect most active users to earn at least $20-50 / month for the next 2 months without doing more than engaging with social the way they do normally. But some users will and have earned a lot more. Similar to betting markets, there'll be big winners and losers.
Tadeusz Szewczyk (Tad Chef)
@onreact @pinkhoodie Thanks for the detailed feedback. I considered signing up but you effectively want to take over my Twitter account. Why do you need all these permissions: Follow and unfollow accounts for you. Update your profile and account settings. Post and delete Tweets for you, and engage with Tweets posted by others (Like, un-Like, or reply to a Tweet, Retweet, etc.) for you. Create, manage, and delete Lists and collections for you. Mute, block, and report accounts for you. Send Direct Messages for you and read, manage, and delete your Direct Messages.
Nir Kabessa
Maker
@onreact @pinkhoodie Thanks for the feedback. This shouldn't be the case and we will look into this immediately. Sometimes Twitter forces these permissions as part of sign up, but either way this is certainly not our intention. We'll attempt to fix this and get back to you. Thanks for almost signing up!
JaneManthorpe
@onreact @pinkhoodie same here. today I went to signup and all the permissions above were ask for. Not confident in accepting this.
Tadeusz Szewczyk (Tad Chef)
@onreact @pinkhoodie OK, it seems you fixed the permissions issues! Thank you! Sadly signing up via Twitter results in an error no matter what browser I use: "Failed to create your account".
Brett Goldstein
I love the concept behind this product! Long live the curators!
Aoi
I've always been pretty good at finding the best creators before they became popular... so excited to see that I can get some sweet tokens for that with Yup 💸💸💸
Zoia Kozakov
Love how you can make money on something you already do anyway - “like” content on the internet!
bhp
great and i love it ....
Ioan Profiroiu
Hi, seems to empower people to create more engagement. Do the companies that got that engagement pay? Also, what are the requirements for monetizing your engagement, is everyone able to do it?
Nir Kabessa
Maker
@profiroiu_ioan Great questions! We certainly think it'll drive more engagement, but the companies won't have to pay directly. They can pay to increase exposure, and either earn or lose influence depending on engagement. Yes EVERYONE is able to do it, though not all engagement is equal in value. Yup provides a path for curators to establish influence without needing a brand or following, increasing the value of their engagement long-term
Toshu Kabessa
I love the idea of getting rewarded for my informed opinions. Also knowing by rating how reliable other people's likes are. Go YUP!
Atif Unaldi
Any Safari extension planned?
Nir Kabessa
Maker
@atif_unaldi yes, coming soon!
mohammed al-zubier
I registered but then it gives me an error message "Failed to register account. Try again later" @pinkhoodie Yup
Nir Kabessa
Maker
@mohammed_al_zubier hey, thanks for reaching out! What email did you try to sign up with? Feel free to email me at nir@yup.io
Jun Gong
I wrote about Yup a year ago (https://www.dapp.com/article/mor...) and now it's good to see Yup is taking off 🚀
Harshvardhan 🏏
It's a way to better Internet!
Eric Gorski
long live curators!
Max Meyerson
Started with just an idea and a dream a few years ago and now I’m seeing this turn into reality. Couldn’t be more proud of Nir & Vernon as well as the Yup team supporting their brilliant minds. Big things are coming your ways boys, and super excited to see where this journey takes you!
Jake Meyerson
This is fantastic. The YUP Team has really helped throughout the whole process of becoming a YUPER. Great idea coming to fruition. Looking forward to the continued implementation and growth that Nir and his team have built thus far.
Ellie Reid
Great idea, I am excited to start using it!
Mahbod Moghadam
This is a perfect example of why I got into crypto in the first place - I think Yup is going to blow up hardcore! It is kind of like the flipside of what Everipedia does - one is crypto for creators, yup is crypto for consumers
Alex Mas
Yes! Thanks to crypto I've monetized my Twitter account better than most— glad to see this tool helping me out further (and others too)!
Justin Bleuel
This is such a great product! Reminds me of @steffondavis 's curalytics // recent book "the rise of the curator class changing everything" -- you two should meet @pinkhoodie !!