Launch HN: Prolific (YC S19) – Quickly find high-quality survey participants • Hacker News Board

Re: Launch HN: Prolific (YC S19) – Quickly find high-quality survey participants

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Post by uxamanda » Fri, Aug 02, 2019, 11:55 PM UTC

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uxamanda wrote: post #14

This is really interesting. I've run into an issue finding qualified participants for user research studies many times. The companies focused on that space tend to be very businesses. Will take a look next time I have a survey! A tiny thing I noticed on the site. If you change the estimated time on your "Study cost calculator" and hit tab, you are bounced down to the next section on the screen so you cannot see the r…

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Awesome, nice to see quick iteration!

Re: Launch HN: Prolific (YC S19) – Quickly find high-quality survey participants

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Post by yc_user_2019 » Sat, Aug 03, 2019, 5:54 PM UTC

Started using Prolific a few days. Love the fact that it has a clean and simple interface and it pays in British Pounds which then translate to higher CAD/USD amount. The only thing is that there are not enough survey and the site does sign me out sometime after showing a 500 error. Would also love to know if you guys plan to have a mobile app/mobile friendly site at some point. Started using Qmee app on my phone and love it's interface and level of engagement so far. I understand that Prolific and Qmee might be serving different markets but would be nice to see Prolific implement some of it. Would love to give additional feedback if you'd like.

Re: Launch HN: Prolific (YC S19) – Quickly find high-quality survey participants

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Post by bwb » Sat, Aug 03, 2019, 9:08 PM UTC

Nice work, checking it out now as I've been looking for something like this :)

Re: Launch HN: Prolific (YC S19) – Quickly find high-quality survey participants

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Post by slugalicious » Mon, Aug 05, 2019, 2:14 PM UTC

psb31 wrote: post #13

slugalicious wrote: post #12

Congrats on creating a side hustle while completing grad school. This UX is far superior to MTurk, but as others have suggested, the price point is definitely higher. A few questions: 1)"You can easily invite participants for follow-up studies at no extra cost." So, I can re-contact them through your platform OR I gain access to their contact info? 2) What % of customers are repeat buyers (multiple surveys)? 3) What…

Thanks! We're actually cheaper than MTurk for the same participant reward. We take a 33% fee, while MTurk takes 40%. 1) You can run follow up studies through our platform using anonymous identifiers we provide. 2) ~40% 3) We have many more filters when you create an account. The "Number of children" filter is actually a followup to a "Do you have children?". If you select "No" you'll see we have ~ 38,755 active parti…

How are you selling to universities? Do you mean individual labs, or departments, or enterprise level university accounts? My experience has been that individuals are easy, departments are hard, and universities are next to impossible. Since your product is ad hoc, perhaps it's easier. You might want to think about how you could offer this as a SaaS.