Name: Field Notes
Brand: DEPLOYR
Price: 199 USD
Availability: PreOrder

Picture this

Who it is for

Ade notices fuel prices daily on his commute. Field Notes pays small USDC rewards for observations that nearby users confirm, building a trusted local data feed.

Two ways to own it

What you get

Base$199

$50 deposit to reserve

Mobile web capture, geo verification by peers, reward pool, public feed

You choose: chain
You choose: name and logo
You choose: accent color
You choose: topic

Customfrom $1,500

Built around you

Reshape it entirely: new features, your flows, your brand end to end, integrations you need. We scope it with you.

Everything in Base
Custom features and design
Priority build

Why it is new

What exists today, and what this does differently

What is new

Peer-verified local reporting exists; paying reporters in stablecoins is the uncommon part.

Closest things out there

PouchScout and Drop crowdsource local prices and wait times with peer confirmation but pay only XP; GasBuddy has no cash payouts and DePIN apps need hardware.

Checked with web searches in October 2026. A search is not proof that nothing similar exists, and the market moves fast, so we recheck before every build.

What it unlocks

The human in it

Turns everyday noticing into income.

The Regatta Board

Races it can enter

grant · Solana Foundation · rolling

Solana Foundation Grants

rolling

Official page ↗

Existing projects OK

Their rule on existing code: Existing projects OK

hackathon · Colosseum · open

Colosseum Solana fall hackathon 2026

Sep 28 - Nov 2, 2026 per Colosseum schedule post

Official page ↗

Existing work allowed if disclosed

Their rule on existing code: Colosseum historically allows projects started before the event if new progress is shown and disclosed; verify current rules page

What you own

The whole app, not a starter kit.

The complete Field Notes app: people post what they notice locally, neighbours confirm it, confirmed notes earn small USDC rewards and become a verified feed, with a paywall, owner console and verifier agent built in.

Base price · $199

The user app, complete

Every buyer gets the same finished app. Basic branding and copy changes come through a quick form.

Three step onboardingHome

Shown once: note what you see, neighbours confirm it, your spot stays private.

Earnings, streak and next actionHome

Earned this month, morning streak, confirm rate and one clear next step.

Morning route with gapsHome

Your usual route with stops that need a fresh note. Gated behind Noticer Plus.

Post a note and ask nearbyNotice

Cell map, confirmation radius and three cases: a real price, a fake one and an early opening.

Confirm neighboursConfirm

Answer yes or no on nearby notes and earn a small confirmer cut either way.

Buyer requestsConfirm

Requests from feed buyers for cells on your route. Gated behind Noticer Plus.

Verified local feedFeed

Only confirmed notes with agreement counts, plus a weekly price chart.

Wallet, receipts and trust scoreWallet

Balance and receipts with what is never on chain; trust history gated behind Noticer Plus.

Plans and settingsMe

Pricing from the owner paywall, USDC checkout, driving safety, permissions and vision.

Open the full app demo

Add-on

Owner console

Your admin side: revenue, paywall editor, users, rules and the agent log.

Revenue and paywall editorRevenue

MRR, feed buyers, reward pool, incoming USDC, accepted methods, live tier and gate editing.

Feed buyers and pool top upsBuyers

Who buys the feed, what they use, and buyer funded reward pool top ups.

Feed rulesRules

Reward per note, confirmations needed, radius and topics.

Verifier log and roadmapAgent

What the verifier got wrong and how it adapted, costs, plus the priced Roadmap screen.

Top-up

Growth and referrals

Referral and growth mechanics, switched on when you are ready to grow.

Bus park mornings and confirmer loopsGrowth

Run a bus park morning and track confirmers who become noticers.

The money path, built in

How it earns for you

Noticers post and confirm free and earn small rewards from a pool funded by buyers. Local businesses, delivery apps, researchers and NGOs pay monthly for the verified feed, and noticers can add Plus.

NoticerFreePost notes, confirm neighbours, small USDC rewards when confirmed

Noticer Plus$2 a monthMorning route with gaps, buyer requests on your route, trust score history

Feed API$99 a month per buyerThe verified feed for a city, by API, with confirmation counts

Rewards are paid from buyer funded pools; amounts are small and never guaranteed. Payout gas on Base, Celo or Solana is a few dollars a month.

Prices are yours to set. Illustrative, not a promise of income.

Growth loops, built in

How it spreads

Every confirmation request reaches someone nearby who has not posted yet
Confirmed notes shared in group chats link back to the feed
Buyers fund bigger pools that pull in the next neighbourhood
Bus park mornings where conductors and traders join
Morning streaks on a short route

Roadmap · build the next phase with us

Where it goes next

v1 included

The full field notes app

Notes with cell level location
Neighbour confirmations and rewards
Ring and fake location checks
Verified local feed
Paywall, owner console, verifier agent

Included

Buyer desk and bounties

Buyers post requests for a cell
Funded bounty pools
Feed API with webhooks
Weekly price index reports

Add-on from $500

City networks

New cities with local topics
USSD notes for feature phones
Partner NGOs as verifiers
Open data releases

Add-on from $1,200

For investors and grant reviewers

The pitch, ready

Get paid for what you notice: local prices, queue times and shop openings, verified by others nearby.

Problem: Prices, queues and openings change hourly in fast cities, official data lags by weeks, and crowd reports are easy to fake.

Solution: People post short notes that neighbours in the same 500 metre cell confirm. Confirmed notes earn small USDC rewards from buyer funded pools and feed a verified local dataset sold by API.

Why now: Cheap payouts on Base, Celo and Solana make ten cent rewards practical, and buyers need fresher ground truth than surveys provide.

Market: Delivery and mobility apps, food price and humanitarian NGOs, researchers and local businesses in fast growing cities.

The ask: Pilot partners: one delivery app and one food price NGO in Lagos, plus Celo and public goods grants.

Funding is never guaranteed. Check each program's rules.

For hackathons and demo days

Your 2 minute demo

Home: Ade, 29, on the danfo through Ojota.
Notice: post the fuel price; three neighbours confirm and he earns ten cents.
Notice: a too good price from a new account is contradicted.
Confirm: answer a neighbour's queue note.
Feed: only what people nearby agreed on.
Owner Buyers: a buyer tops up the reward pool.
Owner Revenue: change the Plus price and preview the Plans sheet.
Owner Growth and Roadmap: run a bus park morning, then request the buyer desk.

Many hackathons require code written at the event. See the Regatta Boardfor each race's rule.

Make it entirely yours

Custom work from $1,500: your own topics and cells, a buyer dashboard, USSD support or a city specific deployment. Scoped on a call.

Custom from $1,500

BLUEPRINT

Why it matters and how it really works

The need

Useful local facts change every day: what petrol costs at a given station, whether a pharmacy is open, how long a queue is. People who pass these places notice them and share them in group chats for free, where they vanish. Anyone who needs that information has no feed they can trust, and the people doing the noticing are never paid.

What exists and what is new

Crowdsourced local reporting already exists. PouchScout and Drop let people report local prices and wait times with peer confirmation, but they reward with points or XP, not money. GasBuddy collects fuel prices without cash payouts, and DePIN networks that pay for data usually need dedicated hardware. Research verdict: rare, medium novelty. What is new here is narrower: small stablecoin rewards paid only after nearby people confirm a note, with the confirmations recorded so the resulting feed can show why each fact is trusted. It is a payment and verification layer on a known idea, not a new kind of app.

The data it runs on

Notes people post (topic, short text, an optional photo, a location rounded to a roughly 500 m cell, a timestamp), yes or no answers from confirmers in the same cell, each account's history of confirmed and contradicted notes, linked wallet signals used to spot rings, and the monthly reward pool funded by the feed's buyers. Exact coordinates and photos stay off chain.

1.The mission

Pay people for the useful things they already notice, and give every neighbourhood a local feed that is checked by the people who live there.

2.Why people can't resist it

Money for something you saw anyway A fuel price you passed on the bus becomes a small USDC reward minutes later, once neighbours agree.

Your neighbours back you Each confirmed note shows how many people nearby said yes. Being right in public feels good, and it builds a trust score.

A route, not a chore A morning nudge lists the gaps on your usual route, so noticing turns into a short daily streak.

3.How it works for real

Capture: A mobile web app with a Privy embedded wallet. A note is a topic, a line of text and an optional photo. The phone's location is rounded to a cell before upload.

Confirm: The server pings people seen in that cell on several days of the past week. They answer yes, no or not near. Linked wallets count as one voice.

Record: When the threshold is met, an attestation (EAS on Base) records the note hash, the cell, the verdict and the count of confirmers, without names or coordinates.

Pay: A reward pool contract on Base pays the reporter and each confirmer in USDC. Gas can be sponsored by a paymaster. Celo and Solana versions use the same flow with their native USDC.

Feed: Confirmed notes go into a public feed and a paid API. Buyers (delivery fleets, newsletters, local apps) pay monthly or per call, for example over x402, and that money refills the pool.

Assist: A small model (for example Claude Haiku tier) tidies note text, flags duplicates and writes the morning route nudge. It never decides truth; people do.

4.Cost per use and pricing

Each settled note costs about one attestation plus one batched payout on Base, usually a fraction of a cent in gas. A small model call to tidy a note and draft nudges is roughly $0.0005 per note. Rewards are the real cost: at $0.10 to the reporter and $0.02 to each of 3 confirmers, a confirmed note costs $0.16. Example month in one city: 20,000 confirmed notes is about $3,200 in rewards, under $60 in gas and model costs, and about $50 for hosting and push notifications. The pool only pays what buyers fund.

Reporter Free

Post notes, confirm others and earn rewards from the pool.

Feed reader $29 a month

API and alerts for one city and one topic, with the confirmation count on every item.

Sponsor a topic From $500 a month

A business funds rewards for a topic it needs (fuel, pharmacy stock, queue times), paid into the pool.

5.Growth loop

Every confirmation request reaches someone nearby who has not posted yet, and they get paid for checking. Shared notes in group chats link back to the feed. Buyers who rely on the feed fund bigger pools, which pull in more reporters in the next neighbourhood.

6.Risks and guardrails

Fake notes and rings: Location can be spoofed and friends can confirm each other. Guardrails: confirmers must have a presence history in the cell, linked wallets count once, and contradicted accounts need extra confirmations.

Privacy: Regular routes reveal where people live and work. Only cells are stored, never coordinates, and confirmers are never shown to each other or to buyers.

Rewards can dry up: The pool depends on buyers. The app must say plainly that rewards change and are never guaranteed income.

Safety: Nobody should stop in traffic or a dangerous place to post. Notes can be posted later from memory within a time window, and the app never asks people to go somewhere.

Defamation and harm: Notes about named small businesses can hurt them if wrong. Topics are limited to observable facts, and owners can respond to notes about their premises.

Regulation: Paying people may raise tax or payments rules in some countries. Owners should check local rules before launching in a new market.

7.Build order

One city, one topic: fuel prices at named stations
Note capture with cell rounding and a photo
Confirmation pings to people with presence history in the cell
EAS attestation per settled note on Base
USDC reward pool with batched payouts
Public feed page and a simple paid API
Morning route nudge and streaks

8.Where this is going

Now
One city, fuel prices and shop hours, checked by neighbours and paid in small USDC rewards.
Next
More topics and cities, sponsors funding the facts they need, and reporters with a portable trust score.
Later
Local feeds that newsrooms, aid groups and city planners read because each item shows who checked it.
The big picture
Everyday noticing becomes paid work anywhere with a phone, and every neighbourhood has a live, honest picture of itself.

Costs and tools are estimates at the time of writing. General information only, not legal or financial advice.

OWNER PLAYBOOK

Own it, then chart your voyage

Nine routes from one vessel. Tap a port to open its chart.

Why own Field Notes

Field Notes pays people small USDC rewards for local observations, like fuel prices or queue times, once nearby users confirm them. When you own it, the data feed, the reward pool and the trusted local network belong to you, and you choose who buys access. It turns your neighbourhood's everyday noticing into a feed you control.

What’s stopping you?

“I can't code.”

DEPLOYR deploys it from your wallet. You run it from admin: choose categories, set reward sizes, fund the pool, review disputes.

“Where does the reward money come from?”

At first, you fund a small pool yourself. Over time, businesses and researchers who want the data pay for access, and that refills the pool. Do not promise contributors any income level.

“What if people post fake observations?”

Rewards only pay once nearby users confirm. Start in one area where you know people, keep rewards small, and remove repeat offenders. No system is perfect, so watch the first weeks closely.

“Is it really mine?”

Yes. The contract and reward pool sit on your wallet. Data buyers pay you directly.

“Is collecting location data legal?”

Observations are about places, not people. Never collect faces, plates or personal details. Check local rules on data before selling access, and keep a simple privacy note on your site.

The million-dollar ladder

Contributors earn small rewards for confirmed observations; the owner sells access to the verified feed to local businesses, delivery apps, researchers and NGOs by monthly plan. About $1M a year is a target, not a promise.

$100

$3,000

$15,000

$85,000

First buyers

10 local shops

$10/mo

One city

150 businesses

$20/mo

Several cities

200 data buyers