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Great article. It's a good reminder that you don't need funding and a huge idea to get a side project going. Thanks for writing this!
How I Advertised All My Websites To YCombinator
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…
You're wrapping Turk in a human. That provides value. + Have you ever dealt with Turkers? I did for a client once. Here's the task, simplified: "I give you job title, you give me degree title. For example, if I say 'elementary school teacher' you say she has a Bachelors degree in Education and so your answer is Education." Input (to turker): Car technician Output (from turker): BACHELORS DEGREE IN CAR TECHNICIAN I re…
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?
So thrilled for you Dan. Congrats again. Swiperoo loves your service.
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…
Making it easier to access these services is extra value.
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Thanks I hadn't seen that I'll definitely check them out. Do you know if they use MTurk or some other service?
Feedback Army uses Mechanical Turk. Indeed, they say on their pages that the questions a user submits must comply with MechTurk guidelines.
Never used MTurk personally, there may be better things available.
That was a great read! I hate to nitpick, but this part caught my eye: I needed to fix about the site – SSL (even though all of the payments are secured through Stripe) . If the checkout page isn't loaded over SSL, my credit card number isn't secure since the page is still vulnerable to a MITM attack completely removing the Stripe code.
Thanks! Yes there is a chance for a MITM attack but as far as I understand from talking to Stripe that risk is very, very low. I'm going to be adding SSL this week anyway however. Thanks for your comment!