get paid for doing what you already do - yapping too much with your friends
call your mum. get paid for it
You already spend hours on the phone with the same few people. Make those calls through Yap Room instead, and we'll pay you for every hour. Nothing about the conversation changes - it just earns now.
- replaces your calling app
- private and secure
yap just like you would normally
No script, no topic list, no homework. Talk about whatever you'd talk about anyway. Every yap gets anonymized before it goes anywhere, so it stays yours.
- anonymized yaps
- no scripts, no staging
$10 an hour. both of you
You earn $10 for every hour you yap. Your friend earns the same on their end. No minimum to cash out, no points to redeem, no waiting around - money lands every Sunday via PayPal or bank transfer.
- no minimum payout
- paid out every Sunday
why we pay you to yap with your friends
AI can write you a sonnet but still can't hold a phone call. The missing ingredient? People like you, on the phone, being normal.
you yap with your friends
Call your friends like you always do. Talk about whatever - from wherever. That's it - that's the job.
we build anonymized datasets
Names, numbers, anything personal is stripped out. Your yap is a tiny piece of a very big dataset.
your yaps help train AI
Your yaps help train the AI voices you'll talk to one day - reading your audiobooks, answering your calls, sounding less like a robot.
get paid $10/hour
for yapping
Look, we know how this sounds. $10 an hour for talking to your friends has the general shape of a thing that isn't real. But your friend earns $10 too - an hour of yap is $20 between you. Sunday rolls around, money turns up.
- $10/hr for you
- $10/hr for your friend
- no minimum payout
somewhere right now, two people are laughing at nothing
That recording will help an AI learn what a real laugh sounds like. And both of them just made $10 for it.
yes, it's
actually private
"We anonymize everything" is the sort of sentence companies say right before they don't. So here's the actual list: country, age range, gender. That's the lot. No name, no number, no email - and if you accidentally say any of that out loud, it gets stripped before the recording goes anywhere.
no names, numbers, or emails - everpersonal info stripped automaticallyten minutes between meetings. an hour on the walk home. a whole sunday afternoon
hi :)
We're Matias and Christian. AI is about to talk to everyone, and right now it's bad at it. The only way to fix that is real people, on real phone calls, sounding like themselves. That's the part we can't do without you. We're building Yap Room with you - if you have any feedback, questions, or concerns, call us! Matias' number is in the welcome email.
frequently asked questions
okay but is this real?
Yes. We're a real company in Copenhagen, the AI labs paying for the data are real companies you've heard of, and the $10 lands in your account every Sunday. We know none of that proves it on a webpage - so Matias' number is in your welcome email. Call him if you are still in doubt. He picks up.
who can sign up?
US-based yappers, native English speakers with American, British, or Canadian accents. We'll be opening up to more accents and other languages as we grow - drop us your email and we'll let you know when your one's live.
does my friend need an account too?
Yes - both sides of the call have to be on Yap Room for the yap to start (and for both of you to get paid). The good news is your friend gets $10/hour the moment they sign up. So really you're not asking them for a favor, you're offering them a job.
what do we talk about?
Whatever you'd talk about anyway. The weekend. The group chat. Whether the new café is any good. We don't give you topics, we don't listen in, we don't care. The whole point is that nothing about the conversation is staged.
what if I accidentally say my address or someone's full name?
Happens. We strip that stuff out automatically before the yap goes anywhere. You don't have to be careful - it's just safer to mention it because now you know.
who actually hears my yaps?
Nobody you know. The recordings go to AI research labs and the companies building voice assistants - they get the conversation, with no name attached, alongside thousands of other conversations. Your friends don't hear them. Your boss doesn't hear them. Your mum definitely doesn't hear them.
can I delete a yap if I change my mind?
Yes. You can pull any yap from your account - there's a button in your Yap Room profile.
do I need a fancy microphone?
No. The microphone in your phone is great. We literally want it to sound like a normal phone call, because that's what it is.
how many hours can I yap?
As many as you want. There's no cap, no minimum, no weekly quota. We've got people who do an hour a week with their mum and people who do twenty hours a week across half their contacts. Both are fine. Both get paid the same per hour.
is there a minimum commitment?
No. You can sign up, do one yap, decide it's not for you, and never come back. We'd rather have you for one good call than locked into ten bad ones.
how much do you pay?
$10 an hour, on both sides of the call. So a one-hour catch-up with a friend is $20 of yap between the two of you. No tiers, no leveling up, no "earn more after your first 50 hours" - it's just $10 from the first yap to the last.
when do you pay?
Every Sunday. Money for any yap recorded between Monday and Sunday lands in your account by the end of that week, via PayPal or bank transfer.
why are you collecting all this audio?
AI voice models - the ones you'll talk to in apps, on the phone, through your headphones - are trained on data that doesn't have enough real conversation in it. So they sound a bit off. We're building the missing piece: a giant collection of actual humans actually talking, so AI can learn what people sound like when they're not reading a script.
who actually uses this data?
AI research labs and the companies building voice assistants. The same names you'd recognize from headlines about voice AI. They license the dataset from us, we anonymize everything before it gets to them, and your individual yap becomes one of thousands of conversations they train on.
are there quality standards?
A few. None of them are dramatic, but they exist for boring technical reasons: 1. Speak clearly. No need to enunciate like you're on stage, just don't mumble. 2. Use your phone or laptop. The built-in mic is fine. AirPods or a proper mic work too, but don't go buy anything. 3. Keep the browser open. On mobile, don't close, minimize, or switch tabs - Yap Room only records while it's open. On desktop, switching tabs is fine. (A proper app is on the way.) 4. End the yap with the in-yap button, and let the upload finish before you close the window. Otherwise it might not save, which would be sad for everyone. 5. Yap naturally. No scripts, no staging. The best yaps feel like the call you'd be having anyway. 6. Don't be in the same room as the person you're calling. Each mic picks up the other person's voice and the recording turns into a mess. 7. Actually pay attention. Don't play video games or scroll while you yap. The labs can tell. If a yap doesn't make the cut, we'll tell you why and you can re-record. Nobody fails forever.
how do I start?
Sign up, do a 30-second mic check, call a friend. That's it. Money lands the following Sunday.
so, shall we?
Sign up, call your mum, get paid Sunday. That's the whole thing.