I am anxiously awaiting the day we do this for politicians.<p>A new political party whose beliefs, policy platform, speeches, and votes are tied to constantly evolving real-time demands of its app users (err...constituents)<p>I would vote for any candidate that committed to letting its registered users decide every vote he or she made.
RE headline, isn't this what the gig economy already is? Apps like Uber, Deliveroo, etc. are apps to issue API call against a pool of human workers.<p>(And the rating part is where you get to have pretty disproportionate impact on another person's life.)
So basically like chaturbate [1] and similar, but applied to daily life and without the nudity/sex aspect? I wonder how they plan on keeping that out since their terms [2] (seem to) mention they don't allow that.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaturbate" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaturbate</a>
[2] <a href="https://newnew.co/terms" rel="nofollow">https://newnew.co/terms</a>
Uhhhh i was gonna say what i really think about this app but... if u want me to say something nice first send $1 (venmo @johnromero44) but if u want me to really go off on it cough up $5 i will be waiting for 5 minutes thanks
> "It may not take long for a creator to go to more and more extreme lengths to attract votes from their followers, ending in potentially self-damaging or humiliating scenarios"<p>We've seen this on Twitch with streamers doing "marathons" for getting more subs and therefore money...<p>The model for this app clearly will force the creators to do more "interesting" or "risky" questions to grab attention. If it gets enough traction , it's not going to end well.
>For many of us that sounds a bit ominous, but the reality is actually far less alarming.<p>>"NewNew feels a bit like if TikTok met reality TV hit Big Brother and they had a baby"<p>There's no chance this isn't exactly as alarming as it sounds is there?
This reminds me of "1000 True Fans" <a href="https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/" rel="nofollow">https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/</a><p>Many creators have super-fans but fail to monetize them. The expected model (the only model?) for doing so is that you sell out to advertising.<p>You have fans who are willing to pay for what they are getting, but your fans don't have any way or any nudge to pay for it.<p>This business reduces the friction by directly inviting super-fans to pay for what they're consuming.<p>I don't like it for myself, but I expect it's a good and potentially transformative business model.
Putting aside the getting paid part, it reminds me of cult classic novel "The Dice man", which I read about here few years ago, except instead of chance, people choose.
"It is aimed at what it calls "creators" - writers, painters, musicians"<p>The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Very soon the app's investors will realize that there's no money in musicians, but appeal to lowest animalistic desires - power, greed, lust - is where all the money are. The app will morph to cater to that: it'll become more addictive and more extortive, i.e. more "engaging" in the corp double speak. Investors will get massive returns, the crowd will get another amplifier of their lowest desires.
Funny, I was thinking of a very similar idea. I don't care much about most things, and I have a huge problem choosing or making up my mind. Why not crowdsource it?<p>I'm surprised people would <i>pay you</i> for it, but maybe not that surprised if you give them more control over yourself.<p>Like doing something they say, wearing a dumb T-Shirt they send or recording yourself shouting something in a crowd (actually, there were people on Fiverr doing this already, just not in an embarrassing way).
Relevant: K. Mike Merrill, "the first publicly traded person":<p><a href="https://kmikeym.com/" rel="nofollow">https://kmikeym.com/</a><p><a href="https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/meet-the-man-selling-influence-over-his-personal-life-decisions/59dfaf21177dd4340d4e1fb1" rel="nofollow">https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/meet-the-man-selling-infl...</a>
Curious, I downloaded the app. The feed I was presented with was 90% girls in low cut tops, and everything is paywalled until you pay for votes.<p>If you want to become a "creator" (so you can run your own polls and make money), you need to join a waiting list where they will analyze the follower count of your other social media accounts to ensure you are worthy.<p>The (iOS) app itself was annoying to navigate without a native swipe back gesture. Amazing that it has so many 5 star reviews.<p>Ultimately, the BBC article and amount of 5 star reviews this app has screams to me PR company media blitz to generate buzz, and nothing about this seems organic.
This is just like Instagram's story polls (a subset of basically) but requiring payment to vote. I'm impressed they could actually monetize that.
For anybody looking for the link to the app: <a href="https://newnew.co/" rel="nofollow">https://newnew.co/</a><p>Unfortunately, there is no website/web frontend/web app. I think I am too old to understand why people try to force you to install their app instead of providing at least some fallback website.
> Those that wanted to get involved in the 24-year-old's dinner dilemma paid $5 (£3.50) to vote in a poll, and the majority verdict was that he should go for Korean food, so that was what he bought.<p>Ooh, voting with money! Now try using the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanism - the results could be interesting.
Before I read the article I assumed this was the plot of the movie "Gamer" except for real. In that movie (ruined mostly by a horrible ending), players control their in game avatar but those in game avatars are real people.