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The Amazon VP of Mechanical Turk is going to come by to answer questions, and I'm sure she would love to talk to you all.
Just wondering, how has RPX ( https://rpxnow.com/ ) Login outsourcing/integration worked for you guys? Would you recommend it highly?
Edit: Btw, the Yahoo OpenId login prompts: "Warning: pickfu.rpxnow.com has not forwarded their Privacy Policy."
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Justin, I've been mucking around for awhile in MTurk trying to use Qualifications to create an survey that would target a specific demographic. Have you cracked this nut? Is this something you're considering adding to extend the product? Or is it simply not within the scope of MTurk's capabilities?
We looked at using Qualifications a bit, but quickly decided that it wasn't worth our time to deal with them, at least for PickFu in its current state.
I'm not saying that choosing your own demographics, number of participants, more complex surveys might not be useful sometimes. But I love that I can get my head around this in 10 seconds.
Here is a controversial thought: Your price is too low. You tell me $5 for 50 comments, and I think, these are low quality comments. You're underselling yourself IMHO. Position your service as a more premium offering. I'd do $50 for 50 comments. At least.
- At $5, you could try it out & develop trust as appropriate. This isn't market research with a consultant who can guarantee anything. This is DIY & you decide for yourself what it's worth. There's room for both kinds.
- Neither 5 or $50 is going to provide high quality trustworthy anything. That's not the point of this. The point is something interesting & potentially useful at a price that means you don't need to think about it too much.
- The demographic segmentation just doesn't work with 50 answers. Maybe package it (say $5, $20, $50) & either only offer segmentation to the higher ones or recommend against reading too much in to the lower ones.
- Host the images & otherwise make the image part easy. I'm guessing this is an upcoming feature. Since you clearly set out to make market research cheap & easy, this is part of that. You'd be surprised how many people don't know an image has a URL. Also make it easy to get online images from websites without knowing images have URLs.
Also, I just emailed a friend about this and shared the PickFu URL for the results of my photo survey on facebook, which according to Derek Sivers is a great sign (http://sivers.org/purplecow).
Finally, note that you can see all the PickFu questions as they are distributed to Mechanical Turk (even the "private" ones, obviously) at
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/searchbar?requesterId=AI2HRFAYYS...
I hope your site can scale. I predict growth.
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 thought of using this as part of a sales process for consulting services. That would put you in some sort of competition (or symbiosis) with compete.com. For that, immediately obvious conclusions (however simple), low price & easy to use (time is an issue here) are all essential. precision, advanced options & such, not so much.