Fiverr: What Amazon's Mechanical Turk Should Have Been Like
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Re: Fiverr: What Amazon's Mechanical Turk Should Have Been Like
#2Let me briefly explain the difference:
With mturk, you have work you want to get done, and people go look through the HITs for things that fit their abilities.
With fiverr, you have money you want to spend, and you go looking through things people imagine someone might want to pay them to do.
I've used mechanical turk for annotating a training set for automated classification. I cannot imagine what I would use this service for. Claiming this is what mturk should have been assumes that mturk sucks because all the tasks people want to get done are boring.
Re: Fiverr: What Amazon's Mechanical Turk Should Have Been Like
#3Seems like a different site than Mechanical Turk. I go to MT to fulfill a need. Fiverr seems like a place I'd go to if I had money to burn on something random.
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#4I'm not sure about the MT analogy, but it is Fiverr is a neat concept. Hopefully you can keep the spam down and signal-to-noise ratio up. Also keep improving the reputation system, perhaps with some stats and percentages and filtering and sorting. Would like to be able to favorite people as well (or maybe you can already and I didn't notice the feature).
Re: Fiverr: What Amazon's Mechanical Turk Should Have Been Like
#5It's nothing like MT, but it's a fun site. A friend of a friend contracted someone on fiverr to design a logo for a project he was working on. I saw the logo the fiverr person produced, and it was the lamest thing I'd ever seen. Which you'd expect. But still. Funny.
Fiverr's quirkyness reminds me a bit of http://highdeas.com/
(OT: my favourite highdea was this: http://highdeas.com/technology/Microwave_equivalent_cooling_...)
Re: Fiverr: What Amazon's Mechanical Turk Should Have Been Like
#6Very useful site. I just found something I was looking for. Lets see how it works out.
Re: Fiverr: What Amazon's Mechanical Turk Should Have Been Like
#7Seems like a different site than Mechanical Turk. I go to MT to fulfill a need. Fiverr seems like a place I'd go to if I had money to burn on something random.
Talk about money burning a hole in your pocket. Here is a listing:
"I will plant a tree in my backyard for $5"
Thanks, but no thanks.
Re: Fiverr: What Amazon's Mechanical Turk Should Have Been Like
#8The title of this HN post should of been: "Fiverr: A couple useful services and a lot of dumb ones, both for $5".
Re: Fiverr: What Amazon's Mechanical Turk Should Have Been Like
#9'I will send a torrent of undirected twitter/facebook spam on your behalf for $5'
Re: Fiverr: What Amazon's Mechanical Turk Should Have Been Like
#10Let me briefly explain the difference: With mturk, you have work you want to get done, and people go look through the HITs for things that fit their abilities. With fiverr, you have money you want to spend, and you go looking through things people imagine someone might want to pay them to do. I've used mechanical turk for annotating a training set for automated classification. I cannot imagine what I would use this s…
Agreed. Two separate concepts. The only link is paying someone for a service. However, I've only spent 5 minutes on the site, and I've already spent $10.
I'm already hooked...