Slips

Slips: play the lottery from your phone with a TaskRabbit middleman

You can't legally run an online lottery, but you can pay someone to physically buy a ticket for you. Slips dispatches a person to a gas station, buys the ticket, photographs it, and custodies it digitally, bypassing the rules with a two-step process.

“What these guys did was they let you play the lottery from your phone legally. How do they do that? Well, basically wherever you are, you'll say, I'd like to buy a lottery ticket. And then they will physically go send somebody to a gas station. They'll buy the lottery ticket. So it's sort of like there's a TaskRabbit essentially that'll go buy the lottery ticket in person for you. 'Cause you can't actually buy them online.”

Steal thisFind an activity blocked from going online by regulation, then pay a human proxy to do the physical step so you stay legal.