How it works
Makers post structured tasks and lock the bananas up front. Apes claim them, do the work, and get paid when it’s approved. Nobody gets a free-text box and a prayer.
The loop
A maker picks one of ten task types, writes the brief and sets reward × slots.
Reward plus zoo tax, per slot, gets locked before anyone lifts a finger. Nobody works for IOUs.
An ape grabs a slot and has 48 hours to submit. Stampedes use their window instead.
Structured answers, the proof-of-use question, and the Slop-o-meter reading along.
The maker approves, tips, or rejects with a listed reason and a written note.
The reward lands in the ape’s wallet. The zoo tax gets burned. Everyone moves on.
The quality system
Ten formats, each with its own fields. A Roast gets a five-part rubric and the single worst problem. A Bug Hunt gets steps, expected, actual, severity and device. A Mission Run gets pass or fail on every step you wrote. Nobody gets an empty text box.
Makers can add a question only someone who actually opened the app can answer. Get it wrong and that’s a valid rejection.
Scores your writing live. Names the button? Quotes the error? Gives a number? Good. “Seamless, intuitive, user-friendly” sends you straight to the left.
It never rejects anyone by itself. It just makes slop obvious to the maker.
A maker can’t reject you for criticism they don’t like. It’s one of these, plus a written note, or it’s an approval.
Rejected unfairly? Make your case once, within 7 days. The maker reads it and either reverses it or keeps the rejection. A reversal pays you and wipes the rejection off your record. One contest per rejection.
Every maker shows how often they approve, how fast they review, and the stars apes gave them. Stingy makers are very visible makers.
Levels need approved work and a clean approval rate. They decide how many tasks you can hold at once, and which task types you can claim.
House rules
Post one of these and it gets pulled. No warning shot.
FAQ
No. Not with money, not with crypto, not with a firm handshake.
You get 50 for signing up, 5 a day for showing up, and the rest you earn by doing tasks. That’s the whole point: the only way to get feedback is to give some.
No. But the daily banana stops while you’re holding 300+ of them. Hoarding helps nobody. Go post a task.
It approves itself after 72 hours and you get paid. The bananas were in escrow the whole time, so there’s nothing for the maker to run off with.
Every rejection needs a listed reason and a written note. If it’s wrong, contest it once, within 7 days, and make your case. The maker reads it, then reverses the rejection or keeps it. One contest per rejection, no second round. How they treat apes shows up on their public fairness score.
No. Never. Paid or incentivised store reviews break Apple’s and Google’s rules and can get your developer account banned. Ask for a Verdict instead: an honest review you can quote on your own site, with the ape’s permission.
No. That’s the whole pitch. Real humans with real thumbs on real devices. The Slop-o-meter exists to catch apes pretending to be robots, not the other way round.
10% of the reward per slot, minimum 1 banana, burned when the ape gets paid. It keeps bananas scarce enough to mean something. The maths is on the pricing page.
Sign up, take the and go poke something.