Who is your target demographic (whom do you expect to purchase these surveys)? Small companies?
Anyone on a budget or looking for a quick, cheap answer. Small businesses and entrepreneurs like ourselves were the initial target.
Ask HN: Please review my site - PickFu.com
61–70 of 72 posts
Re: Ask HN: Please review my site - PickFu.com
#62Wow, 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?
According to the developer's blog, the site went live in December '08 and took about two weeks to build. http://www.twobitoperation.com/blog/2008/12/23/announcing-pi...
Yeah, we initially built it a few months ago to solve a need we had internally. Didn't see any easy way to do simple A/B testing so we decided to build it since we figured it might be useful to other people too. Haven't done much marketing for it yet, but glad to hear there's interest for it. Some awesome feedback here too.
Re: Ask HN: Please review my site - PickFu.com
#63What is the geographic distribution of your responders?
It's the same as Mechanical Turk's: http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2008/03/mechanica...
Err hang on. Are you using Mechanical Turks? That can't possibly be a true representative of the online population, much as some superficial demographics might match.
Re: Ask HN: Please review my site - PickFu.com
#64I know domain names are hard BUT
.
your domain looks like :: PickFuck :: to a casual glance.
.
Similar to how the FCUK brand (intentionally) looks like FUCK.
--
I think your site is good, although it seems the demographics are exclusively American. Hopefully you could add some multinational demographic later.
Good luck and well done!
Re: Ask HN: Please review my site - PickFu.com
#65I just used this site, and learned that 18-34-year-old women find a picture of me without a baby more attractive, while the 50+ demographic definitely prefers the picture of me holding my niece. Biologial clocks at work? Anyway, worth $5! ;) Well, sort of... I wish there was a way to view the votes by (gender,age-group) pair, but most of the respondents were female, so I think I'm interpreting the results correctly.…
Actually, there is a way you can view the votes by (gender,age-group,etc.) - click on the "Option A vs. Option B" tab right under "Who responded to your question?" Is that what you were looking for? If so, it's our fault for not making it more visible. Thanks for the heads-up about the mturk job search - we're making tweaks so that those previews show a sample question from now on. Helps keeps the responses more rand…
No, "Option A vs Option B" isn't quite what I was looking for. Let us stipulate that, once I see the results, I decide that I don't care what guys think of my photo. I just want to compare the difference in response between 18-34-year-old women, 35-49-year-old-women, and 50+-year-old-women. I don't see a way to get that information from your current interface.
Re: Ask HN: Please review my site - PickFu.com
#66Rockin' 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?
Our respondents don't get paid unless they actually explain their answers - which both reduces false responses and provides unique value and insight to the service. For example, we used this feature to dogfood our own FAQ page: http://pickfu.com/4UQM7U
I still think doesn't help. I liked the idea and did the turk for one of your questions (this was my first time doing the turk, btw). I was asked to visit a myspace webpage, listen entirely to 2 songs and say which one I like better and why. All this for 3 cents? I did it, cause I am a good fellow but I have hard time thinking of people who are willing to spend 10 minutes of their time for 3 cents.
the FAQ example is a bad example: I can always answer "yes" and then supply as reason "every questions I had was answered". No need to read the FAQ page, of course.
I think if you want to insert any kind of validation system you would have to count the time it took for the turk to answer your question and make sure we are in that range for every hit.
Re: Ask HN: Please review my site - PickFu.com
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually, there is a way you can view the votes by (gender,age-group,etc.) - click on the "Option A vs. Option B" tab right under "Who responded to your question?" Is that what you were looking for? If so, it's our fault for not making it more visible. Thanks for the heads-up about the mturk job search - we're making tweaks so that those previews show a sample question from now on. Helps keeps the responses more rand…
No, "Option A vs Option B" isn't quite what I was looking for. Let us stipulate that, once I see the results, I decide that I don't care what guys think of my photo. I just want to compare the difference in response between 18-34-year-old women, 35-49-year-old-women, and 50+-year-old-women. I don't see a way to get that information from your current interface.
Ah yeah, I get what you're talking about. It's one of the features I've been wanting to add for a while too - filtering the responses by any demographic combination. Not pri 1, maybe in the next version. =)
Re: Ask HN: Please review my site - PickFu.com
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Our respondents don't get paid unless they actually explain their answers - which both reduces false responses and provides unique value and insight to the service. For example, we used this feature to dogfood our own FAQ page: http://pickfu.com/4UQM7U
I still think doesn't help. I liked the idea and did the turk for one of your questions (this was my first time doing the turk, btw). I was asked to visit a myspace webpage, listen entirely to 2 songs and say which one I like better and why. All this for 3 cents? I did it, cause I am a good fellow but I have hard time thinking of people who are willing to spend 10 minutes of their time for 3 cents. the FAQ example is…
As noted before, it's tough to know that 100% of the responses are truthful on any survey. With PickFu, you can read the explanations to get a feel as to which respondents put some thought in.
I'm sorry you had a rough experience with that specific music-listening job - we've never had a more time-consuming question submitted. Most are in the order of "which site do you prefer?", like this current one: http://pickfu.com/AGSIBT. These get answered far faster by the MTurk workers.
Re: Ask HN: Please review my site - PickFu.com
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, "Option A vs Option B" isn't quite what I was looking for. Let us stipulate that, once I see the results, I decide that I don't care what guys think of my photo. I just want to compare the difference in response between 18-34-year-old women, 35-49-year-old-women, and 50+-year-old-women. I don't see a way to get that information from your current interface.
Ah yeah, I get what you're talking about. It's one of the features I've been wanting to add for a while too - filtering the responses by any demographic combination. Not pri 1, maybe in the next version. =)
[deleted]
Re: Ask HN: Please review my site - PickFu.com
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, "Option A vs Option B" isn't quite what I was looking for. Let us stipulate that, once I see the results, I decide that I don't care what guys think of my photo. I just want to compare the difference in response between 18-34-year-old women, 35-49-year-old-women, and 50+-year-old-women. I don't see a way to get that information from your current interface.
Ah yeah, I get what you're talking about. It's one of the features I've been wanting to add for a while too - filtering the responses by any demographic combination. Not pri 1, maybe in the next version. =)
I would be happy just to be able to access the raw responses in a .csv file or something, and do the filtering myself.