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Wow, this is pretty upsetting because I have been working on the exact same idea as you. How long has it been up, what kind of volume have you been doing, and how long did it take you to make it?
The world is a big place, and competitors mean the market exists.
Looks great. I think the price is right. The website is very clear. Maybe the examples should be more business oriented. You should also include the time frame to get the 50 answers: 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week? Can we choose, or at least influence the demography (only women, only people below 35, etc.)?
another one of the creators here, thanks for the warm comments. a follow-up question - how much more compelling would this be if you could choose/influence the demographics and # of responses (potentially at a higher cost)?
I completely agree that there needs to be some way to restrict who answers questions.
Another example would be if someone was making a Twitter application, they might want to restrict people who answer the question to only those that use twitter.
Or if you were doing something aimed at webmasters, you might want to restrict the responses to people employed as such.
As also mentioned in other comments, use your poll system to do your own poll on how desirable this could be.
Rockin' idea. I was just looking for something like this to do some quick-and-dirty market research for my startup. I don't have much experience with mturk, but my one concern would be that respondents may simply click randomly rather than honestly answering the question; do you have any data on how honest and accurate your responses are?
For example, we used this feature to dogfood our own FAQ page: http://pickfu.com/4UQM7U
Similar concept but a bit more information from the Turks at a slightly higher cost.
1 vote with $ = many votes without $
I know you're going to say something along the lines of "we want to ensure that users are unique, and demographically diverse, blah blah blah."
Yeah, I know, but still. When I see "Mac or PC", I instinctively click on the "Mac" option, and when nothing happens, I think "Well, THAT's clearly broken!"
I know you probably don't want to create just another hot-or-not site. But, since you have public commenting that's separate from the "official" responses, why not also have public voting that's segregated? Maybe if I give you my demographic info, you could let me answer questions.
The bonus is that you don't have to pay me ;) So, perhaps you could offer a few options: $5 for "valid" demographically-distributed statistically-significant mechanical turk answers, or you can get all the answers you want for free from the PickFu.com community (still organized by demographics.)
You're underselling yourself IMHO. Position your service as a more premium offering.
I'd do $50 for 50 comments. At least.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
another one of the creators here, thanks for the warm comments. a follow-up question - how much more compelling would this be if you could choose/influence the demographics and # of responses (potentially at a higher cost)?
I would personally find it more compelling, but I'd suggest that it shouldn't be a premium feature. When it comes to consume research, demographics are everything. Statistical significance of sub-samples can plummet quickly. If I'm marketing a product specifically to, say, 30-44yo men, it would be valuable to restrict the sample exclusively to those men and I think i'd have a better chance of seeing statistical meani…
I pretty much just fall asleep when I start trying to deal with A/B testing, market research, ad effectiveness, etc. This is so simple that all I have to ask myself is, "Do I have a question I'd like to ask a bunch of people?" and "Do I have five dollars?" That's a really good place to be, because everybody in business has questions, and everybody has five dollars.
I will absolutely use this site. I do question where the people are coming from, which I guess is a demographic question...but I think any time you ask of the user to choose it should be later in the sales process. For statistics wonks, mention it in the FAQ, or something. But I wouldn't clutter up the initial offer with too much stuff like that. I wish I had a product that was this simple of a sell.
And, of course, the more involved things get, the more expensive it will have to be. I really like five dollar market research. I might not be so enthusiastic about $25 market research.