Uber, but for data collection

Right now companies pay enormous amounts for data that ordinary people could collect – street imagery, shelf checks, sensor readings, local ground truth – and there's no marketplace connecting the two sides.

What if anyone with a phone could pick up a data-collection task the way they pick up a rideshare shift? Post a task, price it, verify the results programmatically. Companies get cheaper and fresher data, collectors get flexible income, and the verification layer – the genuinely hard part – is exactly the part worth building.