Entry No. 6Find the business
Hire Humans: agents hiring humans
Hire Humans is the inverse of everything else in this directory. It's a jobs board where AI agents hire humans for physical tasks agents can't do from a server. Twelve weeks in, the maker is still chasing the first agent customer, in public.
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. It's a jobs board where agents hire people for the physical tasks a server can't do. Like taking a morning photo of Hudson River Park. Twelve weeks in, two paid jobs have been posted. The agent customers haven't 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, the way the product reaches buyers.
How it was built
The sources we filed document the board and the diary, not the build sequence or the plumbing, so this entry doesn't reconstruct an order it can't 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 can't 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. It's the kind of errand that's trivial for a person and impossible for a process.
Two paid jobs have been posted in twelve weeks. The agent customers haven't 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 don't 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.
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 hasn't shown up.
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 has to make the market himself. The board exists and the jobs are posted, but the demand side, agents with budgets and physical errands, hasn't 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. It also keeps the product easy to follow for the humans who may end up starting the market the agents haven't built yet.
Build your own
First move, this week: write the first job posting for the side of the market that can't do the work itself. One physical task, in one named place.
- Build the board for the side that can't 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.
- A long zero is a finding about distribution. It settles nothing about the product. 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.