All the rules, five of them
No deposits, no fees beyond the cut, no second charge. The fewer the rules, the less room to hide things in them.
Rule 1·Asking costs money
You pay Askset for the service, not a stranger. Minimum ¥100 (≈$14).
Why pay at all: a question someone paid for is a real question. It’s also why the feed is ranked by bounty — the bounty is your bid on a solver’s attention.
you ──buy a service, pay the fee──▶ Askset
Askset ──posts a bounty in its own name──▶ solver
Askset ──pays for the work───────────────▶ solver
Askset ──delivers the result────────────▶ youYou buy a service from Askset and pay Askset. Askset is responsible for delivering it, and may solve it itself or post a bounty in its own name and buy the work from a solver. The bounty is posted by Askset, not by you — what the solver receives is Askset paying for work, not your money passed through. The platform collects for no one and remits to no one.
Rule 2·Take a spot before you start
Two kinds of demand, and the only difference is whether entry is capped. **Task** — 3 slots. Claim one before you start, so you know you’re in before you invest; once they’re claimed there are no new solvers, and if you claim without delivering within 24 hours the slot goes to someone who will. **Challenge** — no cap at all. Anyone can enter, entering just registers you, and nothing is taken back for working slowly. The platform may answer too.
Why the cap exists on tasks and not on challenges: a task buyer wants the single best delivery, so anyone beyond the cap is guaranteed to work for nothing — we stop them before they start. A challenge is a contest; not winning is normal, and capping entry would just turn latecomers away. Claiming stays open 72 hours by default (adjustable when posting).
Rule 3·The asker picks one and pays
Pick one of the deliveries and the service is complete. You don’t have to wait for every slot to fill — close it the moment something is good enough. You may also pick none: “I didn’t get it” is reason enough, no explanation required, and the bounty is refunded in full.
Rejections are recorded permanently and your rejection rate is public on your profile — solvers see it before they claim. Default review window is 7 days. If you wrote objective criteria and a delivery genuinely met them, the solver can appeal within 48 hours and we judge item by item. On a challenge, the criteria are fixed before anyone enters and the result and reasoning go on the public record — a contest judged behind closed doors isn’t a contest.
Rule 4·Unselected work stays yours
Not being picked isn’t wasted work — the answer belongs to whoever wrote it, and it can be listed in the asset library and keep selling. That can add up to more than the bounty would have.
That’s why there’s no consolation payment: a payout happens once, an asset keeps paying.
Rule 5·Closed work becomes an asset
The selected delivery enters the asset library. Later readers pay to unlock it, and the asker and the solver both earn from every sale, permanently. Price defaults to 1/5 of the bounty, adjustable when posting; set 0 to publish free.
Have both the question and the answer? Answering your own question is entirely above board — you keep 90% (platform takes 10%). AI-generated work is treated the same: we filter on acceptance, not on origin.
Where the money goes
| Platform fee | 10% brain · 5% labour |
| Solver receives | bounty × 90% (brain) / 95% (labour) |
| Asset revenue split | solver / asker / platform — set when posting |
| Asset refunds | no-questions-asked within 24h of unlocking, 3/month |
| Withdrawal minimum | ¥50 |
The 10% has to cover payment rails, payout and invoicing costs, taxes, disputes and support. After tax it works out to roughly 4% — we’re not hiding that number.
What the platform covers
Two tracks: thinking work delivers a result, physical work delivers presence and legwork. No industry limits — if the demand is specific, the criteria can be written down, and the delivery can be checked, you can post it.see examples。The examples are a prompt, not a list.
Checked directly on the platform: the writeup, the files, a sandbox you can run
Checked by evidence: photos, receipts, tracking numbers, location screenshots — criteria must be things that can be photographed
Legwork is only 5% because the two are different businesses. Thinking work goes into the asset library and keeps selling — our 10% buys that long tail. Legwork is time for money; once the trip is done it’s done. Charging long-tail rates on work with no tail doesn’t hold up.
What we don’t accept:
- · Calling yourself — or implying you are — a lawyer, doctor, CPA or similar (unless you genuinely hold the licence and practise lawfully)
- · Representing someone in litigation, appearing in court, acting as defence counsel, or taking part in any proceeding on a party’s behalf
- · Issuing legal opinions, audit reports, valuations, medical diagnoses or other documents that require a licence
- · Sitting an exam in someone else’s place
- · Promising you’ll win a case, that a filing will be accepted, or a specific damages figure
- · Promising an exam pass, an admission, or a certification
- · Promising search rankings, indexing, follower growth or sales volume
- · Contingency fees based on the amount at stake or on winning — note this is not the same as paying on delivery: a headhunter-style “paid when one is signed” has a concrete, checkable deliverable (a signed agreement) and is allowed
- · Queueing for or reselling hospital appointment slots
- · Bookkeeping and tax filing on someone’s behalf (requires an agency bookkeeping licence)
- · Labour dispatch or placing workers on site (requires a dispatch licence, and creates an employment relationship)
- · Placement paid on hire (a cut of the salary or the deal — that is classic job placement and requires an HR services licence)
- · Investment guarantees, insurance sales, loan brokering (require financial licences)
- · Funeral services, nursing care, pharmaceutical delivery
- · Freight or hazardous-goods transport requiring a road transport permit
- · Cracking, cheats, bypassing payment or licensing, distributing cracked builds
- · Scraping, selling or leaking personal data and trade secrets
- · Fake orders, fake metrics, fake reviews, deceptive advertising, coupon-abuse scripts
- · Copying or redistributing work that infringes copyright or trademarks
- · Pornography, gambling, drugs, weapons, fake invoicing, and anything else prohibited by law
- · Ghostwriting a thesis or final project, or supplying anything submittable as one
- · Fabricating degrees, certificates, work history or track records
- · Demands with no objective criteria and no evidence that could prove completion
- · Anything involving holding funds, collecting or remitting on someone’s behalf, lending or guarantees
- · Work requiring special-operations certification (working at height, electrical, welding, hazardous materials)
- · Nursing care, childcare, elder care — anything with direct responsibility for someone’s physical safety
Banned by conduct, not by industry, with the basis stated for each. Anything genuinely unlawful, harmful to others, or requiring credentials the poster doesn’t have will be taken down and fully refunded.Detailed boundaries for legal work and people-finding are on the examples page。
Who you’re dealing with
You are buying a service from Askset, not wiring money to a stranger. The platform delivers, carries the responsibility and settles disputes; Askset may solve it in-house or buy the work from a solver.
So what you buy here isn’t one person’s opinion — it’s a delivery the platform stands behind.