6 Things Flatbush Residents Already Do That Shift Will Pay For
Shift pays $20/hr to record everyday home tasks on your phone. Here are six things Flatbush households are already doing that qualify — no changes to your routine required.
1. Cooking from scratch
Flatbush kitchens run long. Curry goat that simmers for two hours. Jerk chicken with a full marinade. Rice and peas that take care and timing. Shift values extended cooking sessions above almost every other task on the platform — the longer and more involved, the better the recording. If you cook a real dinner most nights, you're already doing Shift's most valuable task.
A 90-minute cooking session earns $30.
2. The weekly grocery run
Whether you shop at Western Beef, Compare Foods, or the market on Nostrand, your weekly grocery run is a recordable task. Shift captures how people navigate stores, what they buy, and how they carry items home. A typical Flatbush grocery trip — list in hand, multiple stops, heavy bags on the walk back — runs 45 minutes to an hour.
That's $15–$20 without changing anything about how you shop.
3. Full apartment cleaning
A real cleaning session — not a quick wipe-down, but mopping the floors, scrubbing the bathroom, cleaning the kitchen properly — takes 60 to 90 minutes in a typical Flatbush apartment. Shift pays for the full duration. You're already doing this every week. The only difference is hitting record first.
A thorough Saturday clean earns $20–$30.
4. Laundromat trips
Flatbush has plenty of laundromats, and plenty of buildings without in-unit machines. If you make regular trips to the laundromat on Flatbush Ave or Church Ave, those sessions are fully recordable — from sorting clothes at home to folding the last item. An average laundromat trip runs 60–90 minutes.
That's another $20–$30 per session.
5. Errand blocks
Post office. Pharmacy. Picking something up on Nostrand. Dropping something off. Most Flatbush residents knock out three or four errands in a single afternoon without thinking twice about it. Shift pays for the full block — not per individual errand, but for the time you're out running your day.
A 90-minute errand run earns $30.
6. Meal prep
Not everyone does a big Sunday meal prep, but a lot of Flatbush households do. Cutting vegetables for the week. Marinating meat. Cooking rice in bulk. Portioning food for school lunches. This is exactly the kind of systematic, purposeful kitchen activity that Shift values — and it often runs longer than a single dinner prep.
A two-hour prep session earns $40.
Put two hours of these tasks together most days and you're at $1,200/month. No interview. No commute. No car. You're already doing the work — Shift pays you for it.
Apply now and start earning this week.