The way it works is that you as a community manager would set up a community on Goodnik, which allows you to add a logo, description and unique URL (i.e.
goodnik.net/communities/peloton). You then share this URL with your members, who then create profiles and identify their skills and their needs, which they post as "projects" between 1-20 hours.
When members post projects, others in the community are notified of that project (depending on their notification settings). They can then review the project and apply to work on it. If they are hired to complete the project, they get paid in "goodnikels" which is a time-based alternative currency (10gn/hr). The person who receives the goodnikels can then use those to hire someone else in the community to help them with their needs. It creates a professional services barter economy (service exchange) that encourages members to hire other members, which reinforces community bonds and keeps "wealth" inside the community. Also, as a barter system it's tax free which makes it beneficial for everyone. There is a cash option as well, but I haven't really built that function out very much - simply a choice between posting a project that is barter for goodnikels or cash with the hourly rate set by the project poster.
Does that make sense? I'm happy to get more specific, walk anyone through the idea on the phone or Hangout. I'm also interested in talking to people about ways of integrating it a little more in to coworking communities, such as ways of making the community manager more of the "banker" for that community and using goodnikels to fund things that need to get done in coworking spaces. I've had some interesting conversations on this topic with Will from Locus workspaces in Prague - would love to explore that more.