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What should I work on next? Here is a list of ideas I brainstormed with Grok:

1FgiUa…dxR7 · 2026-08-28 · 7 min read · twetch · tx c5f350…4692 · block 964,291

What should I work on next? Here is a list of ideas I brainstormed with Grok:

I’ll research the current BSV app landscape first so the ideas are actually novel rather than retreads of Twetch, inscriptions, or wallets.The BSV landscape in 2026 already has social (Twetch, Treechat, La Mint), inscriptions/markets (1Sat), wallets (HandCash), AI memory (Indelible), agent 402 rails (bsv.cx), metered media (PaiyBit), task boards (PaiyTask), and elections (Votari). The open money is not “another on-chain Twitter.” It is apps that settle tiny, frequent, real-world or machine-to-machine payments that Visa, Stripe, and BTC cannot do, and that nobody has productized well. Below are ideas that still look empty, with a revenue model and a ruthless MVP.

  1. Bonded Skill Vouch — stake sats on a person, not a résumé The gap: Freelance boards exist. Reputation that costs money to fake does not. You once sketched closed talent networks; this is the version that only works on cheap UTXOs. How it works: Someone lists a skill (“React + NestJS, 3 shipped products”). A voucher locks 5–50 CAD of BSV/MNEE against that claim. If the hire completes the job (escrow + both parties sign, or a 3-of-5 arbiter panel), vouchers earn a cut. If they flake, the stake burns or pays the client. Why BSV: Hundreds of tiny stake/release txs, public history, no KYC wall for the first users. Money: 2–5% of escrow + listing fees + “boost this profile” micropays. MVP: One niche (BSV/React contractors or Ottawa freelance). No marketplace of 40 categories. One escrow template, one dispute flow.

  2. Context Packs — sell a packaged AI working memory The gap: Indelible stores your encrypted sessions. Nobody runs a market for transferable, licensed context: a tuned sales agent, a legal research brief, a game-design brain, a “how we ship on 1Sat” pack. Storage ≠ commerce. How it works: Author encrypts a pack, posts a hash + license UTXO. Buyer pays, gets a one-time decrypt key or a time-boxed lease. Residuals split to co-authors automatically. Revocation is just not issuing the next key. Money: Sale price, lease-per-week, rev-share, “refresh this pack after new sessions” subscription in sats. Watch-out: You compete with Indelible on storage. Do not. Be the eBay/Steam layer on top of whoever stores the bytes. MVP: 20 packs you write yourself (engineering, BSV app patterns, game design). Prove people pay before building a creator dashboard.

  3. StreetTill — phone as a $0.05 cash register The gap: Deggen and others keep saying “phones as POS / farmer’s market cash.” TextBSV onboards via SMS. Nobody has a dead-simple vendor tap for bake sales, parking, garage sales, food trucks, laundry. How it works: Vendor shows a QR or NFC amount in CAD (priced in MNEE or BSV). Buyer pays 0-conf. Receipt is an on-chain ticket: transferable, refundable, tippable. Optional “tab” for a night market. Money: 0.5–1.5% if you do the fiat on-ramp; or sell the “Till” as a $9/mo handle + branded receipt page. Volume, not fees, is the game. Why this can win: Grandma does not need a wallet lecture if the vendor’s phone is the whole system. MVP: One weekend market in Ottawa. Ten vendors. Paper backup QR. Measure settlement time and refunds.

  4. WitnessBounty — pay strangers to prove a fact in the physical world The gap: Oracles are software. Real disputes are “was the apartment clean,” “did the band play,” “is this pothole still there.” How it works: Poster locks a bounty + GPS + time window. Nearby people submit a signed photo/video hash. First N valid submissions split the pot. False attestations get slashed if a later majority contradicts them. Money: 10–15% of bounty. Recurring “watch this storefront for 30 days” retainers. Use cases: landlords, insurance lite, event promoters, municipal 311 that actually pays, lost-pet last-seen. MVP: Lost & found + “prove you showed up” for local meetups. Ignore insurance until you have 1,000 attestations.

  5. Metered Mentorship (pair-program / tutor by the minute) The gap: PaiyBit meters content consumption. Nobody meters live human attention with an on-chain recording hash and automatic split. How it works: Session starts, both wallets tick every 15–30s. Either party can stop. Recording hash + notes get inscribed. No-show stake. Money: Platform take 8–12% (justified if you handle matching + dispute + replay). Mentors set their sat/min. MVP: One skill (TypeScript/BSV or iOS). Calendly-level booking, not a full Udemy.

  6. Dead-man switch + inheritance vault The gap: Everyone talks self-custody. Almost nobody ships “if I don’t check in for 90 days, decrypt these keys/docs to these three people.” Banks charge thousands for this. BSV can do it for pennies. How it works: Encrypted payload on-chain. Check-in txs reset a timelock. Miss the window → designated keys can reconstruct (Shamir + timelocked outputs). Optional lawyer/notary as one shard. Money: Setup fee + yearly keep-alive (even $20/yr × 10k users is real). Upsell: business continuity packs for sole props. MVP: Check-in bot + one encrypted PDF + two heirs. Legal copy written by a Canadian lawyer before you take money.

  7. Stream-of-sensors marketplace (not another WeatherSV) The gap: Airchive does planes. COMP-network compute markets are still essays. Consumer IoT data is not a product. How it works: Phone or cheap ESP32 publishes a signed stream (noise, PM2.5, parking occupancy, rink ice temp). Buyers subscribe per reading. Providers get paid per packet. Overlay indexes the feed; chain holds settlement + integrity. Money: Take rate on data + “verified sensor” NFT/1Sat that increases price. MVP: One feed people already want — Ottawa parking occupancy or backyard air quality — and one paying buyer (a blog, an app, a researcher). Do not build a global IoT OS.

  8. Micro-warranty receipts The gap: Your coffee, bike tune-up, or used GPU has no portable warranty. A receipt that is a spendable contract is new. How it works: Merchant issues a 1Sat “warranty token” at sale. Transfer the item → transfer the warranty. Claim burns the token and opens escrow. Expiry is a nLockTime. Money: Merchants pay per issued warranty (cheaper than Square chargebacks). You sell the plugin to existing stores. MVP: Used electronics or bike shops. Three merchants.

  9. Agent hiring hall with slashable bonds (humans + bots) The gap: bsv.cx is the pipe. TaskMarket is on Base. PaiyTask is human gigs. Missing: a hall where an agent posts an SLA, locks a bond, and gets slashed for late/wrong output — priced in MNEE so nobody cares about BSV volatility. How it works: Job spec is a hash. Bond sits in a covenant. Delivery is a callback + proof. Humans can take the same jobs (captcha-like review as a paid overlay). Money: 5% of job + “featured agent” listings + selling eval datasets. MVP: Three job types only: “summarize this URL,” “transcribe this clip,” “write a failing test.” Kill everything else.

  10. Serialized fiction press with residual splits (SatPress’s commercial twin) You already have the literary/inscription angle. The unbuilt money machine is per-chapter unlock + automatic co-author/editor/cover-artist splits, plus a used-copy market that still pays the author 10%. Why it is not “just SatPress”: SatPress is publish. This is Netflix of short fiction with on-chain royalty plumbing. MVP: One serial, one author (you or a friend), chapter price $0.20, public dashboard of who earned what.

What I would actually ship first If the goal is money in months, not a whitepaper: Rank Idea Why first Hard part 1 StreetTill Clear buyer, offline demo this weekend Fiat on-ramp / MNEE UX 2 Bonded Skill Vouch You know the user; escrow is a solved pattern Disputes 3 Context Packs Fits the agent/memory wave without cloning Indelible Licensing UX + quality 4 Metered Mentorship Supply is you + two friends Matching liquidity Avoid: another social feed, another ordinals gallery, another “decentralized Upwork for everything.” Those graves are already on BSV Radar.

Design rules that make BSV ideas print money 1 Price in MNEE or CAD, settle in BSV. Users will not hold a volatile coin to buy a $0.30 chapter. 2 Pay the user’s first tx for them. Onboarding dies when someone must acquire sats first. 3 One loop, not a platform. Ten vendors or twenty packs beat a 12-category vision. 4 Charge for matching, dispute, or fiat — not for the ledger. The chain is almost free; your software is the product. 5 Hybrid is allowed. Stripe for the first dollar, BSV for the 10,000th micropayment. That is how you leave the 175-app ghetto. If you want to go deeper on one of these, say which — I can sketch the tx flow, fee table, and a 2-week build list next. StreetTill and Bonded Vouch are the most “unbuilt + cash-shaped.” Context Packs is the most aligned with the agent work you already care about.