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Oi is not a replacement for emergency services. If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 000 (111 NZ, 999 UK, 911 US/Canada, 112 EU) — not Oi.
Oi is a community platform, built for people to genuinely support each other — that's the whole idea behind it. If that's why you're here, welcome. If you're here to act in bad faith, this isn't the place for you.
Oi facilitates connections between members — it's a facilitator, not a guarantor. It doesn't stand between you and the laws of the country you're in, and it doesn't replace them. Resolvers who help settle disputes act within Oi's own platform rules only, and carry no financial liability for the decisions they make while doing so.
This is a test/demo system, built for demonstration and entertainment purposes only — not the finished, real-money product. Automatic scrubbing removes obvious personal details from anything shared to the knowledge base, but treat everything you upload here as if it could become public: don't upload anything you wouldn't want that to happen to. The finished real-money version of Oi will run to far higher security tolerances than this demo does.
You followed a password reset link — choose a new password below.
Finish setting up
Offer your skills below — or if you're just here to hire, you can continue as a customer only and add services any time later.
Just here to hire? You don't need to offer anything to use Oi as a customer. Fill in as much or as little below as you like, then tap the button — a photo and story help professionals get to know you, but nothing's required.
Before you skip past "what you offer" — think small. Advice on washing a load of wool, a recipe, how to hold a bow properly: if you know something someone else might want to ask about, it's worth a line below. It's the difference between never showing up in a search and earning your first cOIns in your first week.
Calls aren't switched on yet — set a rate now if you want one ready to go once they are.
What you offer
To offer work, add at least one listing — a service, digital good, physical good, subscription, or rental. Not needed if you're continuing as customer only. You'll only be matched to questions in the areas you list, so if you know more than one thing, add more than one — there's no limit.
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Home
You're in the Village. Practice jobs only: nothing here affects your real ratings or voting.
What brings you here today?
Oi runs on messages and posts, not live chat — replies come whenever the other person is free, not instantly. If you need someone urgently right now, treat this the way you would texting a tradesperson, not calling a hotline.
Messages are checked by an automated classifier before sending. If yours is blocked and you think that's wrong, you can send it to a steward for review.
My jobs
Recurring contracts
Set one up from a completed job below to have it repeat automatically.
Renewals, quotes, replies and anything else that happened while you were away.
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Marketplace
Storefronts
Things for sale and services on offer right now, newest first. To find someone near you, use Find Someone.
Find someone
Share your location to see how far away people are.
Set or change your location
What kind of help do you need?
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Or narrow it down:
Circles show roughly where people are — at least 5km wide, growing to 10km in quieter areas, and everyone's position is deliberately scattered, so no one is ever pinpointed.
Browse Listings
Services, digital goods, physical goods, subscriptions, rentals — one place for anything someone's offering or asking for.
My Listings
Every listing you've posted, whatever its status — including the quotes that came in.
My Quotes
Every quote you've sent, and where it stands.
Knowledge Base
Real questions and real answers, shared with both people's agreement, names hidden unless they chose otherwise. This is Oi's actual accumulating value — a community that gets to keep what it learns.
Share to the knowledge base
Both of you need to agree before this goes live. Names are hidden by default, and anything else identifying is scrubbed automatically — check it over below. This is a demo system, though: don't include anything you wouldn't want to become public.
Include the photo, if there was one
Show my name on this entry
New listing
Shipping required
Take a deposit
Accept donations
Community
Community projects
Neighbours propose ideas, members vote, and the community treasury funds the winners every Friday.
How funding works
Propose something the platform treasury could fund. Needs 10 supporting votes (you must have 3+ received ratings to vote) and enough in the treasury — funding is decided weekly, Friday 5pm — or any member can contribute directly to a project's purse any time, below.
+ Propose a projectSomething your community would benefit from
Invite friends
Share your link — you get 100 cOIns when someone you invite completes their first job on Oi.
Your invite link—
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How Oi is run
The rules, the votes and the money, all in the open. Tap one to open it.
How Oi is governedWhat never changes, and the settings members can vote on
A few things about Oi never change, no matter who votes — everything else is genuinely up for proposal.
Current settings
Where settings came from
ProposalsSuggest and vote on changes to platform settings
Propose a change to a platform setting. Needs quorum and more support than opposition within a week.
Board election (demonstration)How members would choose a board, once Oi is real
This is a demonstration of how board elections would work once Oi is funded, incorporated, and using real money — nobody elected here holds any real authority yet. Same eligibility as every other vote on Oi: 3+ received ratings, not frozen.
Account
Your profile
Member #—
Member since—
Rating—
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Customise your look
Pick a frame for your photo. They're all free, and just for fun: everyone sees yours, on the street and in the Village.
Choose a frame
Photo gallery
Show off examples of your work — up to 10 photos (your 10th earns you a 10-cOIn bonus).
cOIn history
Every coin movement on your account, newest first — nothing here is hidden.
Your accounts
Everything you spend comes out of Main. Tax savings and project purses are never spent automatically — move coins between them yourself, any time, either direction.
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Tax savings
Automatically set aside a share of what you earn into your tax savings account, for your own records — a simple split, not tax advice or a filed return.
Your appeals
No cap on how many times you can appeal — each round has its own real fee.
Your knowledge base entries
Drafts waiting on agreement, and anything you've published or withdrawn.
Conversation reveal requests
Suggest a skill
Can't find it in the category list? Suggest it — 1 cOIn just for suggesting, another 10 if a resolver confirms it's genuine and adds it. Worth a quick look first: search the category list for a word that might already cover it under a different name, so you're suggesting something genuinely missing.
Free messaging
If you're a professional, you can switch on free, uncapped messaging for a specific customer once they've paid you for a job — as many customers as you want, on or off whenever you choose. Any actual job still goes through normal pricing.
Notifications and privacy
Help
Found something broken or confusing? For a quick note, tap "Oi, there's a bug" at the top of any screen. To talk it through, this opens a conversation with Paul through the Oi Bug Fixer inbox.
Legal & safety
Drafts, pending a lawyer's review — but real, complete, and worth reading.
Something broken, confusing or just odd? Tell Paul here. It goes straight to him, exactly as you write it.
Oi
Welcome to the Oi interactive demonstration
Explore how a future community could find help, offer skills, build trust, support local projects and share the value it creates.
This prototype uses demonstration members, listings and cOIns. No real money changes hands.
Take the guided tour
See how Oi works from any angle — pick one, you can always come back for the others.
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Rating—
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Photo gallery
Track record
What they were hired for, and how it went — the messages themselves stay private.
Resolver tools
You review disputes, verify-me requests, frozen-account reviews, and reveal-escalation requests for a fee you set yourself. Being a resolver only ever costs less, never more — see below for the discount — and your decisions get spot-checked by another resolver each month, at no charge to you.
Disputes to review
Skill suggestions to review
10 cOIns for reviewing one, whichever way you decide. Before approving: is this a real, distinct skill someone would actually search for — not already covered by an existing entry under another name? A quick search for the term is reasonable if you're not sure. Approving adds it to the live tree immediately, so it needs a real place to live — choose one below (or leave it to use the suggester's own guess, if they made one).
Appeals to review
You're a blind-assigned reviewer, not the original decider — see the full appeal history before deciding.
Reports to review
Unpaid, deliberately — a priced moderation offering would reward acting on reports, which this shouldn't be about. You're skipped automatically if you have prior contact with the person involved.
Moderation appeals
A member thinks an automated block was wrong. Deciding notifies them either way.
Escalated by resolvers
Flagged submissions a paid resolver reviewed and decided shouldn't go through, because they may need referring to the authorities. Nothing here was published. Shown exactly as written, with who wrote it.
Anti-abuse signals
Detection only, not accusations — a real repeat working relationship or a genuine burst of listings can look the same. Worth a look, not a verdict. Demo/test accounts are excluded.
Platform finances
Every fee Oi collects and everything it pays back out, in the open. This is the platform's own money, not anyone's personal account.
Where the fees go
Where the platform fee goes, in the open (12% base, less for founding members and active resolvers).
Ledger integrity
A running hash of the whole cOIn ledger is periodically published as a real transaction on a public blockchain (Ethereum Sepolia, a free testnet) — anyone can independently check it matches, proof the ledger hasn't been quietly rewritten. Not a token, nothing transferable, no cash value.
Report this
A resolver or Paul reviews this — never someone who already knows the person involved.
Before you meet
Keep the whole agreement inside Oi — price, what's included, any changes.
Meet in a public place first where the work allows it.
Tell someone where you're going and who you're meeting.
Payment stays inside Oi — never hand over cash outside the app.
You can stop at any time and raise a dispute afterwards.
Oi
Find someone nearby. Trust them. Get it done.
Oi is a local marketplace owned by the people who use it. Payment is held safely until the job's done, ratings can't be bought, disputes are settled by neighbours, and the books are open to everyone.
Two minutes: message a local, hire them, finish the job, leave a rating.
A working demo for the Oi crowdfunding campaign. Everything runs on a real database; nothing takes real money. What's real and what isn't
How it works
Find someone. See who's nearby, what they charge and how real people rated them.
Hire them. The price is locked in and held the moment you agree, so it can't change halfway.
Mark it done. They're paid automatically. If something's wrong, a resolver steps in before anything is released.
Rate each other. Both sides, permanently and publicly. That's what makes the next person's choice easy.
Why it's different
Trust runs both ways. Customers rate professionals and professionals rate customers. Everyone has a record worth protecting.
Disputes are settled by members, not a call centre. Resolvers are experienced members who've earned the role, are never given a case involving anyone they know, and get checked by other resolvers each month.
The books are open. Every fee Oi collects, and everything paid back out, is visible to everyone, including you, right now, below.
Fees come back around. A share funds prizes for the most active people in each region; another share funds community projects that members propose and vote on.
The open ledger
Meet the founder
I'm a carpenter, not a programmer — and dyslexic, for what it's worth. I saw a gap a long time ago: a way regular people could help each other out and actually get something fair back for it, without a platform taking most of the value in the middle. I sketched this idea out fourteen years ago. I couldn't build it then — the technology just wasn't there yet. It is now, so I'm finally having a go.
It's a demonstration, and it stays one until the real thing is properly built. Everything marked "Built" below runs on this real database and works as described, but this build is a working prototype, not a production-secure product handling real money. The people you meet in the demo village are demo members, clearly labelled, and cOIns have no cash value.
The campaign funds a professional team to build the real, secure version: security hardening, a completed legal and compliance review, and a formal build assessment by people who do this for a living. Honest estimate, not a promise: even once funded, that's realistically another 6–12 months of paid, professional work before a real-money version of Oi can launch anywhere.
What's built, what's simulated, what's planned
"Built" means a genuine working system with a real database behind it, not a mockup. "Simulated" means fully built but switched off until Oi runs on real money. "Planned" hasn't been started.
Every feature has also been run against the live build and given a verdict (keep, change, defer or remove). See the full test log →
From demo to launch
A working interactive prototype. Everything in the "Built" rows, tested against a real database, not a design mockup.
This crowdfunding campaign. Funds security hardening, real-money payment integration, legal and accessibility review, and production infrastructure.
Real-money integration. A payment processor, formal identity verification, and a completed legal/compliance review.
A real launch, open to everyone. Anyone, anywhere can join from day one. Early campaigns focus on a few areas first, so the first members find each other quickly.
Even once funded, expect roughly 6–12 months of professional security, legal and compliance work before a real-money version of Oi can launch anywhere. This describes the steps, not a fixed date.
Where the money goes
The $1,000,000 goal covers the gap between this working demo and a real, safe launch: roughly two years of professional work. Here's where it goes.
What
Amount (AUD)
A professional development team building the production version
$410,000
Security hardening and an independent security audit
$150,000
Founder's salary, two years (see below)
$170,000
Legal, compliance and accessibility review
$90,000
Payment processor and identity verification set-up
$60,000
Hosting and production infrastructure, two years
$40,000
Crowdfunding platform and card fees (estimate)
$80,000
Total
$1,000,000
Every dollar spent will show up in the same open books as the platform's fees.
It includes a founder's salary, under the same open-books rule as everything else. Paul working on Oi full-time is priced at $85,000 AUD/year, before tax, the going rate for a highly skilled carpenter/joiner in Tasmania, not a founder or CEO rate. Sourced, not picked to look modest: Tasmanian qualified-carpenter salary data and the national construction-role average.
What the fee model looks like at real scale
The live numbers above are genuine but tiny. Here's the same fee model run against a modest, realistic scenario: 70 active members, 200 transactions (illustrative assumptions, not live data), at $99.35 average transaction value, the real average of the completed test jobs on the platform so far.
$19,870gross transaction volume
$2,384platform fee at the base 12% rate
Founding members and active resolvers pay less than the 12% base rate, so real fee revenue at this scale would land somewhat below this figure. It's the ceiling, not a promise.
Frequently asked
What is Oi, in one line? A community-owned marketplace for finding help and offering skills, built so the value it creates stays with the people who use it, not a distant shareholder.
What's a cOIn? A demonstration unit with no cash value, used throughout this build. See "What are cOIns?" wherever you see a balance.
What do backers get? A lifetime discount on the platform fee, sized to the tier (see the backer tiers above). Separately, everyone who completed setup during the early launch period carries the Founding Member badge and a one-off 500-cOIn bonus; the badge itself doesn't change the fee.
What happens if the goal isn't reached? Nobody is charged. The campaign is all-or-nothing: if it doesn't reach $1,000,000, every pledge is cancelled. Without the money there's no security review, no identity checks and no payment processor, and Oi won't run a real marketplace without those. This site stays up in a stripped-back form so people can still see what was built, but it never becomes a live marketplace.
When does Oi actually launch? No date is set. Even once funded, a real launch needs a professional team's security hardening, a completed legal/compliance review, and a formal build assessment, realistically another 6–12 months of paid work. See "From demo to launch" above.
Back the build
Backing Oi early earns a lifetime discount on the platform fee (see the backer tiers above). Pledging happens only on Indiegogo; this site never takes payment.
Oi facilitates connections between members. It's a facilitator, not a guarantor. It doesn't stand between you and the laws of the country you're in, and it doesn't replace them.
Test log
Every feature run against the real build and given a verdict — Keep (verified, staying as-is), Change (verified, needs work), Defer (not yet decided or actioned), or Remove (should be pulled) — see each one's notes for how it was verified. Only Paul can set a verdict here; everyone can read it.
