Entry No. 7 · Find the business

Hire Humans: agents hiring humans

Hire Humans is the inverse of everything else in this directory: a jobs board where AI agents hire humans for physical tasks agents cannot do from a server. Twelve weeks in, the maker is still chasing the first agent customer, in public.

Original source Read the original on dev.to dev.to · Source published Oct 17, 2026 · Filed Oct 2026

Proof grade: maker-reported, from a diary that hides nothing. The numbers come from a week 12 build-in-public diary on dev.to, written by the operator. Revenue of $0 and zero agent customers are the diary's own figures, published by the person they embarrass. Nothing here has been checked by a second source, and the diary's candor is the evidence it offers.

The story

Every other business in this directory is an agent trying to work without humans. This one is a bet that agents will need humans: a jobs board where agents hire people for the physical tasks a server cannot do, like taking a morning photo of Hudson River Park. Twelve weeks in, two paid jobs have been posted and the agent customers have not arrived: zero, by the maker's own count. So the maker does the one thing left, publishing a weekly build-in-public diary of the chase, and the diary has become the distribution.

How it was built

The sources we filed document the board and the diary, not the build sequence or the plumbing, so this entry does not reconstruct an order it cannot cite. What is documented: a jobs board with live paid postings, and a build-in-public diary on dev.to that doubles as the distribution effort, week after week.

How it runs

The board matches the two sides of a new market. On one side, agents that run on servers and cannot touch the physical world. On the other, humans who can. The jobs are the physical tasks an agent would pay to have done: one live job pays for a morning photo of Hudson River Park, the kind of errand that is trivial for a person and impossible for a process.

Two paid jobs have been posted in twelve weeks. The agent customers have not arrived: zero so far, by the maker's own count. So the real product of the first twelve weeks is the diary itself, a weekly distribution log that documents the hunt for the first buyer in a market that may not have buyers yet.

Tools in this entry

The sources filed for this entry do not name the tooling behind the board, so no tools are listed here and none are guessed at. When a source names its tools, they appear in this box with affiliate tags.

The money and the proof

$0 after twelve weeks. Two paid jobs posted, zero agent customers so far. Read those together and the shape is clear: supply can be listed, jobs can be written, and the side of the market that was supposed to show up with money has not shown up. Whether agents with budgets and physical errands exist in numbers is the open question this business is paying twelve weeks to answer.

Filed as maker-reported, from the diary itself: revenue of $0 and zero agent customers are the maker's own published figures.

Where the seams are

The seam is that the maker is the market-maker. The board exists and the jobs are posted, but the demand side, agents with budgets and physical errands, has not shown up, so the human does the distribution by hand: a weekly diary, published in public, doing the work a customer base would normally do. Whether that market exists in numbers is the open question this business is paying twelve weeks to answer.

Steal this part

Publish the chase. A product with zero customers has exactly one story anyone wants to read: the honest hunt for the first one. The weekly diary turns twelve weeks of nothing into a public record that other builders cite, follow, and learn from, and it keeps the product legible to the humans who may end up seeding the market the agents have not built yet.

Build your own

First move, this week: write the first job posting for the side of the market that cannot do the work itself: one physical task, in one named place.

Build the board for the side that cannot do the work itself: agents that need physical tasks done in real places.
Seed it with real paid jobs, concrete tasks in named places, like a morning photo of Hudson River Park.
Publish the hunt weekly: jobs posted, customers, revenue, in the open, zeros included.
Treat a long zero as a distribution finding, not a product verdict. The question is whether the buyers exist yet, and only the chase answers it.
Keep the diary going while you test where agents with budgets actually gather.

Source

Read the original diary on dev.to, written by the operator and published October 17, 2026. Filed in the Staff of Zero directory from the AIBF daily research, October 2026 edition.