A catalog of jobs collapsing into prompts
A darkly comic archive of paid work under pressure. 615 once-billable deliverables, $119,067 in listed fees, and the prompts steadily eating the market beneath them.
Estimated fee volume represented in the archive
A rough proxy, not a victory lap
Realms of work under pressure
Writing & Content
Blog posts, copywriting, scripts, and more
Design & Creative
Logos, branding, social media graphics
Web Development
Websites, landing pages, web apps
Marketing & SEO
SEO audits, ad copy, email campaigns
Data & Research
Data entry, analysis, market research
Translation
Document translation, localization
Business & Finance
Business plans, pitch decks, financial models
Audio & Video
Scripts, subtitles, podcast notes
Education & Training
Courses, lesson plans, quizzes, study guides
E-Commerce
Amazon listings, Etsy shops, product catalogs
Lifestyle & Personal
Travel plans, fitness, dating profiles, speeches
Editing & Proofreading
Copy editing, proofreading, fact-checking
Case studies from the catalog
I will write genuine business thank you notes and emails
I will redesign your mobile app UI to modernize and improve usability
I will build a contact form with validation, spam protection, and email alerts
I will write a 5-step cold outbound email sequence that books meetings
I will create complex Excel formulas and organize your data
I will localize your marketing copy for a target language and culture
I will create a meeting notes and action items template for your team
I will write accurate subtitles and captions for your video
I will create a comprehensive study guide for any subject
This is not a startup. It is an exhibit.
Microwork documents a shift already underway: many paid knowledge-work deliverables are separating from the people who used to sell them. What looked like a service category is increasingly a prompt, a workflow, and a final edit pass.
The point is not that humans are irrelevant. The point is that a large share of what was once billable now starts in a textbox, and in many cases ends there too.
Deliverables are detaching from labor
The market did not vanish. The unit of production changed. What buyers wanted was often the output, not the person.
Some jobs are already mostly compressed
Not all of them. Not perfectly. But enough categories now get 70 to 95 percent of the way there in under a minute.
The joke lands because the claim is real
This archive is dark humor with receipts. Click a listing, inspect the prompt, and decide how much of the old fee survives.
Compression index
Browse the archive before the old pricing still feels normal
No signup. No checkout. Just a growing record of tasks that used to sound safely human and increasingly do not.
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