How I Made $350 In Two Days With Three Pages and Some Payment Code

So, if I understand this is essentially reselling Mechanical Turk services with a little work in hiding the details from the customer? I'm not quite sure if this is a scam or not...

...but I can think of plenty of cases where people sell "expertise" which boils down to the same thing... normally its a bit more complicated than this though. I wonder if the customers would pay if they knew of Amazon's service? My guess is they just don't know about it, or at least didn't think it would be any good for them...

Re: How I Made $350 In Two Days With Three Pages and Some Payment Code

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Post by dshipper » Wed, Aug 03, 2011, 2:31 AM UTC

jheriko wrote: post #4

So, if I understand this is essentially reselling Mechanical Turk services with a little work in hiding the details from the customer? I'm not quite sure if this is a scam or not... ...but I can think of plenty of cases where people sell "expertise" which boils down to the same thing... normally its a bit more complicated than this though. I wonder if the customers would pay if they knew of Amazon's service? My guess…

Hey jheriko thanks for the comment! Yes what I'm doing is essentially taking the MTurk service which is for doing a very wide range of tasks, and is also somewhat time consuming to set up, and reselling it as a targeted service for people who want to get their websites reviewed. It's definitely not a scam, just me building a service I thought people might find useful and charging for it. Feel free to email me at dan@danshipper.com, I would love to talk to you more about your thoughts on this.

Re: How I Made $350 In Two Days With Three Pages and Some Payment Code

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Post by jamesgagan » Wed, Aug 03, 2011, 2:36 AM UTC

CrowdPicker has been doing this for awhile: http://www.crowdpicker.com/

Re: How I Made $350 In Two Days With Three Pages and Some Payment Code

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Post by dshipper » Wed, Aug 03, 2011, 2:37 AM UTC

jamesgagan wrote: post #6

CrowdPicker has been doing this for awhile: http://www.crowdpicker.com/

Thanks I hadn't seen that I'll definitely check them out. Do you know if they use MTurk or some other service?

Re: How I Made $350 In Two Days With Three Pages and Some Payment Code

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Post by bemmu » Wed, Aug 03, 2011, 2:43 AM UTC

jheriko wrote: post #4

So, if I understand this is essentially reselling Mechanical Turk services with a little work in hiding the details from the customer? I'm not quite sure if this is a scam or not... ...but I can think of plenty of cases where people sell "expertise" which boils down to the same thing... normally its a bit more complicated than this though. I wonder if the customers would pay if they knew of Amazon's service? My guess…

Nothing wrong with reselling stuff. Also, Mechanical Turk is not available in all countries.

Re: How I Made $350 In Two Days With Three Pages and Some Payment Code

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 03, 2011, 3:01 AM UTC

jheriko wrote: post #4

So, if I understand this is essentially reselling Mechanical Turk services with a little work in hiding the details from the customer? I'm not quite sure if this is a scam or not... ...but I can think of plenty of cases where people sell "expertise" which boils down to the same thing... normally its a bit more complicated than this though. I wonder if the customers would pay if they knew of Amazon's service? My guess…

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Re: How I Made $350 In Two Days With Three Pages and Some Payment Code

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Post by markbao » Wed, Aug 03, 2011, 3:02 AM UTC

dshipper wrote: post #3

pulak wrote: post #2

Nice job, Dan. Always rooting for fellow Penn guys :) Do you expect to automate this any time soon?

This weekend haha I'm not that much of a masochist to do it by hand forever :)

https://github.com/mdp/rturk

happy birthday!