Metro

I can't tell - is this data tokenization - ie. sharing data = mining?

Hi folks, delighted to be making my first ProductHunt post! I started building Metro about 10 months ago. I wanted to build a personalized AI for learning languages - my final year university project -, but I couldn't access the data I needed. Metro is simply a data collection platform. It allows you to collect data from any website, through your users. This means that your users generate that data you need via a browser extension, and send it to you in real-time. It's designed to be mutually beneficial: you can collect new, useful data, while your users get to have control over their data for the first time ever. It can also be used to create open datasets, where all contributors can access all of the data. Feel free to ask any questions!

Wow clever idea. Interesting would be to find out to what extent the big US tech giants could be threatened if they no longer have a monopoly on the global data.

This is such a great idea!

It will be cool to see how this develops over time!

Pros:

It's a cool idea, mutually beneficial for users and for businesses!

Cons:

It's kind of difficult to understand how GDPR affects this style of data collection

We need more project like this to empower the data subjects.

Pros:

I great idea to empower consumers for a more accountable data management.

Cons:

Go to market seem to rely on incentives provided by the companies to the users, which might be not easy to achieve.

So long as more projects are added on a consistent basis, I'll be checking back.

Pros:

Great concept, it's about time people rather than companies decide who gets to use their data.

Cons:

Not many projects on the platform just yet.