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The first marketplace where time itself is the currency — independent of markets, immune to inflation, universally held.
Every person alive holds exactly the same base asset: 24 hours a day. No central bank controls it. No recession can devalue it. No employer can take it from you. MyTime'sYours is the exchange layer that finally lets people trade that asset directly — in cash, barter, or both.
The Philosophy
The value of your time in a barter exchange is set by what you can do for someone else — not by what the Fed decides, not by what your last employer paid you. When markets tighten and cash becomes scarce, skills don't disappear. Your expertise survives the layoff. Your time remains 24 hours. The exchange rate between two people's hours is whatever they mutually agree it to be — fully independent of any financial system.
An ex-Oracle engineer's database skills are worth $300/hr on the open market — but to a small business owner in Kansas City who can't afford that, they might trade 3 hours of bookkeeping for 1 hour of database consulting. Both parties set their own exchange rate based on what the other person's time is worth to them. This is the oldest form of commerce — we're just building the infrastructure to scale it.
History is clear on this: barter economies explode when currency systems fail or tighten. Argentina's peso crisis in 2001 produced 2.5 million active barter participants almost overnight. The 2026 AI displacement wave — 90,000+ skilled workers cut in Q1 alone — is a dislocation of a different kind. These aren't unskilled workers. They're enterprise architects, cloud engineers, and operations leaders with deep expertise and nowhere to spend it. MyTime'sYours is their exchange.
A plumber's hour and a programmer's hour are both irreplaceable. What makes one "worth more" than another is purely contextual — determined by who needs what, when, and where. Our platform doesn't impose market rates or hierarchies. It lets two people find each other and decide the value themselves. That's not just an economic model — it's a philosophy about how human contribution deserves to be measured.
The Moment
30,000 Oracle employees. 16,000 Amazon employees. Tens of thousands more across Meta, Microsoft, Block, and beyond — all in Q1 2026 alone. These aren't people who ran out of value. They're people whose employers ran out of runway.
Over 90,000 skilled tech workers displaced in Q1 2026. Enterprise architects, cloud engineers, ERP specialists, health IT leaders — carrying decades of expertise and a sudden gap in income. Their time has never been more available, or more underpriced by the market.
Mid-market companies — $10M to $100M revenue — desperately need the expertise just released by Oracle and Amazon. They can't afford full-time hires at $185K+ but could absolutely use 5 hours a week of ex-Oracle cloud strategy. The gap exists. We close it.
MyTime'sYours creates a market for time itself — not mediated by employers or staffing agencies, but direct peer-to-peer. When you can't find a cash buyer, trade your skill for something you need. Three transaction rails. Infinite combinations. Your terms.
How It Works
Rail 01
Set your rate, get booked, get paid. Stripe escrow holds funds until both parties confirm completion. Same-day payouts available. Standard marketplace — done right, with low fees.
Rail 02
Trade skill for skill, hour for hour. Zero dollars change hands. The value is whatever both parties agree to — no market rate imposed, no platform forcing a price. The purest form of exchange.
Rail 03
The most flexible transaction in any marketplace. Mix cash and barter in any ratio. When a perfect barter match doesn't exist, bridge the gap with a partial payment. Infinite combinations.
Describe what you need — or list what you offer. Set your price, propose a barter, or open to bids. Every category, one platform.
Smart matching surfaces vetted providers by skill, proximity, and rating. Chat in-app to finalize terms before committing.
Transact your way — cash through Stripe escrow, Time Barter™, or a hybrid split. Funds release when both parties confirm. Dispute resolution built in.
Trust & Safety
Every user verified. Every transaction protected. Every interaction monitored. We're not building a marketplace — we're building an exchange that people trust with their time, which is the only asset they can never get back.
Join the WaitlistGovernment ID + selfie verification powered by Stripe Identity. Every user, no exceptions, before their first transaction.
Optional enhanced background checks for service providers who want to stand out and signal trust to premium clients.
All cash payments held securely until both parties confirm completion. Dispute resolution built in — you're never left unprotected.
Both parties rate every transaction. Build your reputation, earn trust badges, and compound your value on the platform over time.
For Investors
The global gig economy exceeds $500B and every AI-driven layoff wave expands the addressable market. We capture both the displaced worker (supply) and the under-served mid-market company (demand) in a single platform — a flywheel that accelerates with each economic dislocation.
Platform fees on cash transactions, premium subscriptions for power users and professionals, and promoted listings for service providers. The barter rail — while cash-free — drives engagement and retention that converts to premium subscriptions over time.
Time Barter™ is a category-creating feature. No competitor — TaskRabbit, Thumbtack, Fiverr — offers skill-for-skill exchange alongside cash payments. This isn't a feature they can quickly add; it requires a fundamentally different trust and matching infrastructure that we're building from the ground up.
Every new user makes every other user more valuable. More providers means more selection. More clients means more work. The barter rail specifically compounds network effects — a wider skill pool makes barter matches more likely, which draws more users, which expands the pool further.
"When markets tighten, cash becomes scarce. But your expertise doesn't disappear — it just needs a new exchange. We built that exchange."
MyTime'sYours · Founded 2026 · LinkedIn
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