Show HN: Human Lambdas – Create Human in the Loop queues and outsource them
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#2Amazon Mechnical Turk for your own team?
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#3I thought they were called Epsilons.
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#4"Human Lambdas"… "Mechanical Turk"… you're fully aware these are horrible names for horrible ideas, right?
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#5We had something like this for a project which would allow you to create multiple CDN accounts using a single interface. Where some CDN's could not be automated by API or we didn't have the time (yet) to implement. So the default API implementation was the FrankAPI (named after the guy handling the manual requests). It would create a pending database record and Frank would get an email with details and the instructions along with a link to a Django page to fill the record with details when the CDN was created. It was so simple and efficient. We loved the solution, he loved the solution. It was great. Though we where all more tech minded people, so talking with computers was natural to us. I don't know how these kind of interfaces would pan out for other kinds of people, if they would miss the human aspect in the interaction?
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#6I actually think this is a great idea. If I’m understanding it correctly, it’s essentially Amazon MechanicalTurk for people in your company?
Paired with some capabilities for building custom interfaces (if that doesn’t already exist), this would allow many less savvy companies slowly integrate their human processes into their software processes. Of course there’s something to be said about making human redundancy so interactive and personal for the victim, but from a cost savings/business standpoint it’s probably hard to ignore the potential value.
Good luck! I may pitch this to my team next time we need something semi-automated (btw you’re kind of competing with Slack bots, that’s what we use now.)
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#7What next, human Kubernetes?
(No no no it's a Joke, Deliveroo and Uber staff, don't you dare paste that into Slack)
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#8We had something like this for a project which would allow you to create multiple CDN accounts using a single interface. Where some CDN's could not be automated by API or we didn't have the time (yet) to implement. So the default API implementation was the FrankAPI (named after the guy handling the manual requests). It would create a pending database record and Frank would get an email with details and the instructio…
At my previous position (bank) we called this concept "baba layer". Baba in most slavic languages means "old woman". And when used this term "baba layer" was as an indicator that your system sucks (a bit) that you cant really automate some things away. Or as and easy "solution" to difficult problems. "Well, we just let baba layer solve this"
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#9We had something like this for a project which would allow you to create multiple CDN accounts using a single interface. Where some CDN's could not be automated by API or we didn't have the time (yet) to implement. So the default API implementation was the FrankAPI (named after the guy handling the manual requests). It would create a pending database record and Frank would get an email with details and the instructio…
At my previous position (bank) we called this concept "baba layer". Baba in most slavic languages means "old woman". And when used this term "baba layer" was as an indicator that your system sucks (a bit) that you cant really automate some things away. Or as and easy "solution" to difficult problems. "Well, we just let baba layer solve this"
Thanks, now then name of the (great) puzzle game "Baba is You" makes sense to me.
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#10You know, this exact same idea could be done in such a way that doesn't dehumanize the, uh, humans.
In fact, I bet your mileage would even increase if you could figure out a way to actually respect even the grunt laborers.
That is, I like the idea of streamlining your workflow, of compartmentalizing, of assembly lining. I like the ideas of integrating that which can be fully automated with what cannot. And of making tools to increase these objectives
But your teams will see the labels on the tools, and the sites that vend them. If they feel they are being "cogged", they will work like cogs. The site should mix the terms that describe their goal, with terms that respect humans as humans. It would sell better to the workers, and I suspect that in smaller companies and companies that have smaller teams, would sell better to the managers as well.