Upgrade to the next-generation economy with peace of mind
What do we aim for?
Resolving economic inequality problems to increase income.
For anyone, ordinary work supports ordinary life and raising a family with peace of mind. Effort affords a home and a car with comfort.
Building up tiny acts in our daily lives with Requestland technology, we upgrade our economy to a next-generation prosperous one where inequality narrows and excessive competition is no longer needed — the dream of humankind.
How?
Distribute Income Directly Yourself, DIDY.
When you buy something, just look for what suits you best — from nearby if possible — even from stores or products not ranked or reviewed highly, and give income opportunities to more sellers.
Management also raises employee wages and aims to expand revenue by boosting the local community and overall economy.
People in each region build communities, give tutorials, exchange seller case studies, and hold tea parties to make friends.
The more people use Requestland, the more income opportunities will be distributed, and your income will grow.
By whom?
Everyone is welcome. Just use Requestland or contribute.
Peace and Passion, a social startup from Tsukuba University in Japan, leads the project along with all Requestland users and collaborators.
When?
News and Blog
Jan 13, 2025 Comparing Dream Cosmetics & How to Bookmark a Link as a Card
Jan 10, 2025 Want to post videos too?
Jan 8, 2025 Beautiful Requestland Themes
Dec 26, 2024 Comparator: Compare Products Side by Side from Amazon, Sephora, eBay, or any store
Dec 17, 2024 Demo video: New Way to Buy Simple & Enrich Your Community and You!
Requestland is a set of shopping helper tools for everything from cosmetics to corporate acquisitions.
When to buy by exploring
Banban Board in Requestland
A super cool wishlist comparison tool that you can choose the best on your own or with friends.
Just drag (or copy) product links from variety of shops, and they will automatically turn into cards with photos, prices, and descriptions. Easily rearrange and compare the cards to select the best items for you. Also to compare the total prices of combinations and coordinate your clothes. (Excel, thanks so far!)
When to buy by asking
Requests on Requestland
It's a general-purpose tool for buying anything by asking.
Buy by simply writing "I want something like..." on the map from specified number of appropriate shops and companies. No need to research yourself. Fewer purchasing mistakes with professional opinions.
I'm Happy, the AI dog! I'm here to support your purchases with AI. Write your first request!
You can share wish lists, task lists, video meetings, messages, and notes in your organization.
To address the issue of economic disparity between countries, you can use the Luncho index, developed by us at Peace and Passion. Luncho is a universal value index for price comparison across countries, accounting for prices levels and inflation.
AI, the internet, free markets, and capitalism have all helped grow our economy. But as inequality continues to spread, we’ve entered an age filled with fear, division, and even war and terrorism.
The Better Income Project is a way to recover from such dystopia. For over a decade, we — two guys — have been working on it in a tiny student apartment in Tsukuba, Japan, creating technology for both you and us, living in uncertainty.
Hayao Miyazaki and many other creators depict a rebirth from dystopia, or a utopia. The Better Income Project might connect our economy to values such as the harmony of technology and humanity, and living a life with a warm heart.
Let’s update our economy — together, for everyone.
Distribute better income opportunities more widely. Build a broad middle class. Stabilize our society. And we walk together toward lasting growth. That’s the golden path to a thriving economy.
Users are main actors
Users calls users to make the area better for themselves and the next generation.
Director of sales at Takahashi Painting Company
I'm a sales rep of a renovation company. We carry out extremely harsh sales activities, with about 150 walk-in cases per day and several contracts closed each month.
So I came across a service called Requestland. When searching for products, companies that spend much money on advertising stand out, and many really good companies are buried.
I think Requestland is a very good service that we can find really good products.
Our company was able to get a contract at Requestland, and it didn't cost anything. I love it because I can meet new customers and have meetings with chat and video.
I am creating a space for international exchange in Ryugasaki, Japan.
I didn't like this world where riches get richer, so I listened to the presentation and decided that if I could solve it even a little, I would definitely support it.
I think even if it seems that you are making a choice on your own, the choices are already being guided on the net.
I hope that Requestland will revitalize the local economy. I'll do my best too!
Project goals
Anyway, we need money to buy things. This project is in a beta testing phase of innovative technology that aims to fix the problems of inequality and encourage the local community. Join us and help create the next era where everyone can have enough money to buy what they need!
- Increase everyone's pay, resolve the serious disparity, and mitigate excessive competition to recover peace of mind.
- Build a decent economic system that everyone can work with passion and enough income for somebody's smile.
- Create a virtuous cycle of the local economy and pass a better world to our children and grandchildren.
Let's smash through problems caused by inequality, such as suicide tragedy, the division, terrorism, or war, and reunite people!
Will Studying Make Things Better? Is Corporate Effort Enough?
Governments, local authorities, and many NPOs are making efforts to address the growing income gap. For example, improving education.
In South Korea, for instance, the college enrollment rate — seen as the only way out of economic disparity — has risen significantly to 75%. Life has improved greatly, and the country has become prosperous.
However, education is essentially an effort to climb the social (ranking) ladder, meaning that for every person who moves up, someone else moves down. It becomes a zero-sum game. Winning the fierce competition for college entrance requires a heavy burden of education costs. As a result, the birth rate — the number of children a woman bears — has fallen to 0.75 (in 2024), the lowest in the world. Student loan debt is further widening the gap. It’s not just a matter of providing education.
Companies, which are responsible for paying salaries, are making great efforts in SEO to improve search rankings, gathering reviews, and boosting exposure on social media. But because these are ranking economies and zero-sum, competition keeps getting tougher. Perhaps you know someone who has mentally broken under this pressure.
Efforts in studying, nonprofit activities, and business are all necessary and important. Yet anyone working hard in these fields probably feels, "Things are getting worse. Maybe we needs to change our broken economy from the ground up? But that's something only governments can do, not me..." However, in many countries, governments frequently change because they fail to meet citizens' expectations.
Money is the lifeblood of the economy. When it pools in only a few areas, disparities widen. It's like blood only flowing to part of the body — the face turns pale, and parts of the body begin to decay.
Even if you are okay right now, can you say that the children's and grandchildren's generations won't face difficulties?
Now, what if you could slightly upgrade the current economy — helping money flow throughout the whole system, increasing your own income, revitalizing your community, growing the economy without falling into zero-sum competition — and it was easy for you to do?
This project aims to assist through technology: by distributing income opportunities to more sellers whenever someone makes a purchase, it helps improve the circulation of money. Let’s explain more about how it works below. Of course, this is just one way to raise the income level and does not solve all the problems. Various measures are needed.
Have fortunate encounters with good shops
A magic benefits both buyers and sellers for the enocomic inequality problems (hypothesis)
When we want to buy something, there are so many products and stores that it's overwhelming. We often end up buying from the top search results, recommendations, or rankings.
The graph in this illustration shows how Google search results are clicked (Advanced Web Ranking CTR).
There is a significant concentration of clicks on companies ranked 1st to 4th, while 6th place and below have a click-through rate of less than 3%. Companies that can afford advertising tend to rank higher, attracting more orders and building brand power. They sell at higher prices and become even wealthier. In the case of "Recommended" as well, the operating principle is for the AI to repeat what the majority is saying, so popular products will receive higher exposure.
On the other hand, most sellers (including your company??) struggle to get attention even if they have good products. They are forced to lower prices and become even poorer. It leads small and medium-sized enterprises, which make up the majority of companies, to lack the ability to increase employee wages.
While it is impossible to completely eliminate inequality in the society with freedom, we must address the lack of decent lives and the anxiety of the competitive society that we cannot sleep well at night.
Hence, it is crucial to enhance opportunities for fortunate encounters between buyers and sellers, including businesses that may not hold top rankings.
With Banban board, where you "buy by research", you can efficiently research products that suit you from more sellers and products than ever before. With Requests, where you "buy by asking," knowledgeable sellers, including those not ranked at the top, read your request and suggest suitable products. Generally, products that are not ranked at the top are priced lower to gain competitiveness, providing buyers with an opportunity to find reasonable and hidden gems.
To increase opportunities for encounters with diverse sellers, if there are more sellers who wish to propose suggestions for a request than the specified number, the system will randomly select the sellers. By paying an optional entry fee, which serves as the operational cost for Requestland, the chances of being selected as a token of appreciation are increased a little. The entry fee can be zero or more.
No monthly per-user fees, a very low-cost pay-as-you-go system. As a result, sales and profits increase, providing the funds to increase employee wages.
On Requestland, we ask business owners who have increased their profits to distribute more to their employees.
This mechanism allows buyers to purchase good products at lower prices while increasing sales for many sellers, ultimately leading to higher wages for employees.
By using the Land map, you can first inquire if there are any desired items available in stores in your regions. If you can buy locally, money circulates within the community, and the community thrives with increased added value. This also reduces the CO2 emissions from random shipping in traditional online shopping, making it a powerful measure against global warming.
Instead of using "buy by ask" on Requestland, you can also use the Banaban boards to search and compare products yourself. By rearranging the cards, you can carefully compare and find affordable and hidden gems, regardless of rankings.
By improving the productivity of small and medium-sized companies, which are mainly ranked lower, we create two loops. One is a small loop where increased wages for workers lead to increased consumption and money circulation within the community. The other is a larger loop where increased happy marriages and births revitalize the community, leading to money circulation throughout the entire region, including those ranked higher.
We all have the power to spin the double loop and gradually raise it. Both lower and higher-ranked businesses will prosper, CO2 emissions will decrease, and abnormal weather patterns will diminish.
There are limits to redistribution by the government or local authorities. Let's use our own power to reduce economic disparities and create the new era where everyone can live a decent life!
Hello from the developers!
We have been working on Requestland for ten years as unpaid voluntary staff. As we use it ourselves in our daily lives, it has become truly helpful. We can't work without it, especially Banban board, now.
Please give it a try! And don't forget to show it off to your friends!