p(doom) Crowd-Cast

Yes — p(doom) Crowd-Cast is a real, operating platform. We verified its signup, payout, and policy pages directly on 2026-11-01 using 13 sources.

Unusually verifiable for the niche - a registry-grade operator (pdoom UG, Munich, HRB 311706, funded by the federal agency SPRIN-D, TUM research lineage), an open-source recorder, a public dashboard reporting 13,655 recorded hours from 242 contributors, and full contracts - but the terms are the price: you sell your recordings outright with perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable rights including sublicensing, sale and open-dataset release, keystrokes are recorded as typed, staged or mostly-idle recordings pay proportionally less, and pay requires genuinely complex, months-long work of your own - not open to casual browsing. No worker reviews exist yet anywhere (checked 2026-11-01).

A fixed monthly purchase price for accepted recordings rather than a wage: up to $1,000/month for PhD-level research and professional engineering, around $300/month for other qualifying months-long work (theses, design, editing, personal builds); the exact rate is set per person in the Data Purchase Agreement and may depend on country of residence. Work is billed monthly for passive device data, so earnings scale with volume and acceptance rates.

Via Bank transfer. Payout cadence: Monthly / Threshold-based / After validation. Minimum payout: No minimum stated - accrual is monthly pro rata and payment is made by bank transfer via Qonto in the regular payout after each month ends; the first week is a paid trial at one quarter of the monthly amount.

Minimum age Not published - no age minimum is stated anywhere on the program page, the application form, the Data Purchase Agreement or the GDPR consent PDF (checked 2026-11-01). No list published - the page says 'Together with early participants around the world', a job listing says Worldwide/Remote, and the consent form states 'Your compensation rate may depend on your country of residence', implying international participation with country-tiered rates. Payouts are bank transfers through Qonto, so a receivable bank account is the practical requirement. Onboarding collects name, email, postal address, country of residence and payout/bank details (legal basis: contract necessity, per the consent PDF); in-app sign-in uses 'Sign in with Google'. No document-based KYC is described; monthly Data Purchase Statements (payment records) are issued instead of tax forms and participants handle their own taxes.

Submit the short form at pdoom.org/apply.html (name, email, and a concrete description of your work, tools and project duration) → the team reads every application and replies within a few days → if accepted, install the open-source crowd-cast recorder and sign in with Google from the tray menu → grant screen-recording permissions and choose which applications may be recorded → the first 7 days are a paid trial week at one quarter of the monthly amount → recording accrues monthly and is paid in the regular payout after each month ends, by bank transfer via Qonto.