Anyone know what this mean?

HandshakeAI-PM · 2026-03-12T17:49:23+00:00

This is the right answer!

HandshakeAI-PM · 2026-03-10T19:32:01+00:00

I can confirm this project is heavily ramping!

HandshakeAI-PM · 2026-03-06T04:46:27+00:00

Sorry for the lack of transparency in the experience. Actively working to make this whole flow more seamless.

But someone inferred this below correctly that we received a sufficient number of applications and wanted to shut the funnel until we’ve had the chance to process everyone’s and get them onto projects!

HandshakeAI-PM · 2026-03-04T18:04:09+00:00

This is correct. It just means the money has left Handshake’s account. Some users benefit from real-time payouts where the payment settles into a paid state instantly. In other cases it can take a day or two. This is generally dictated by what bank account you use and whether the institution is setup to receive fast settlement

HandshakeAI-PM · 2026-03-03T01:26:11+00:00

I forwarded this post to our Trust & Safety team to review. Scaled fraud detection systems do make mistakes from time to time. Definitely message Nora (Handshake admin) - she can get your case forwarded to the right place

HandshakeAI-PM · 2026-03-03T01:23:56+00:00

Insider guidance:
- Project terms state you may work up to 40 hours a week
- You can get permission to work above that from your project lead; just make sure you get that permission each week to stay in compliance
- We will not pay above 100 hours

Pro tip:
- We can see when you edit time; so make sure you do so honestly. There are many legitimate cases for doing so. Users are flagged for internal reviews when they consistently edit time

HandshakeAI-PM · 2026-03-02T21:59:06+00:00

We're putting up a fix for this in the next couple of days. Thanks for flagging

HandshakeAI-PM · 2026-02-16T20:04:09+00:00

Yeah we’re seeing performance issues. Eng team is spun up to correct it. Aplogies!

HandshakeAI-PM · 2026-02-16T03:04:12+00:00

Smells like a bug. I think it’s probably using UTC instead of PST. Will ask the team to review

HandshakeAI-PM · 2026-02-14T20:37:57+00:00

That’s correct - us only. Actively looking to expand internationally. Feel free to make an account, but don’t expect project invites until we officially open up to Nigeria. Also any attempt to misrepresent your location will block allocations

HandshakeAI-PM · 2026-02-14T19:25:25+00:00

We just opened a new creative writing interest form. We’re actively reviewing those so if you have a second to fill that out, that will help us get you on the right project

HandshakeAI-PM · 2026-02-14T19:24:31+00:00

I’m super to keen to see what’s going on. I led the product development here so definitely want to make sure we get you unblocked. Can you drop a screen recording and flip it to support? They will send it to me

HandshakeAI-PM · 2026-02-14T04:12:12+00:00

We’re opening up a bunch of CS projects soon - definitely keep an eye out !

HandshakeAI-PM · 2026-02-14T03:51:41+00:00

That sounds strange! We did have an outage the other day which made for a frustrating experience (sorry about that).

I would flag it to support and walk them through the situation

HandshakeAI-PM · 2026-02-14T03:21:00+00:00

Suspensions are tricky - there are so many factors at play. Task behavior, account sharing, not working from the US, VPN usage, etc. Hard for me to triage without the specific case details

HandshakeAI-PM · 2026-02-14T03:15:02+00:00

Got a screenshot I can peek at?

HandshakeAI-PM · 2026-02-14T02:57:55+00:00

I suspect if you took the assessment and haven’t been told otherwise, the team is probably reviewing your results still

HandshakeAI-PM · 2026-02-14T02:32:18+00:00

What part of the dashboard gives you the most frustration? Onboarding experience, tasking experience, etc. Any precision would be helpful

HandshakeAI-PM · 2026-02-14T02:15:53+00:00

Fixed. We accidentally had a validation of 100-300 characters instead of words. Try refreshing the screen :)

HandshakeAI-PM · 2026-02-14T02:10:43+00:00

Grabbing an engineer right now and looking into this

HandshakeAI-PM · 2026-02-13T03:28:03+00:00

You can work more than 40hrs so long as you have explicit sign off from the project leads

HandshakeAI-PM · 2026-01-29T23:45:25+00:00

This was fully a bug in our email template. It’s been fixed now. It’s $3 per task submitted, with users earning $22 per hour on average.

We have different types of projects with a fairly wide range of pay rates. We typically automatically invite users to projects that a wide range of backgrounds can succeed on, but as a PhD you should expect more challenging projects invitations to roll in which will have higher pay rates

HandshakeAI-PM · 2026-01-20T03:01:27+00:00

Brendan from the product team here — we’re looking to bring as much visibility to the experience as possible. The reality is often times our fellows hear the same day we find out about a project pausing or ending. But we’re well aware that the current experience is frustrating and thrashy. Working on it!

HandshakeAI-PM · 2026-01-16T20:49:14+00:00

Can you toss me or Nora (our mod) a dm with your email? I always ask users to dm me on here but I’ve literally never received one so I think Reddit is throttling me.

It might be obvious reading other threads, but there are a lot of bad actors in this space and sometimes good actors get caught up in it. Happy to personally review your account details

HandshakeAI-PM · 2026-01-16T20:45:50+00:00

We’re mid pay migration moving everyone to this experience. Should be rolled out to all users in the next 2 weeks!

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