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Amazon Mechanical Turk. Easy to setup and fairly cheap. You can have people do anything you want. I've seen tasks like take a picture of yourself holding up a s

by jwegan 16y ago

Amazon Mechanical Turk. Easy to setup and fairly cheap. You can have people do anything you want. I've seen tasks like take a picture of yourself holding up a sign that says "I love <some website>.com" or to write a review of a product on a website. You can also give offer to give out 'bonuses' to motivate people to generate really good content.

anigbrowl 16y ago
Seconded, but beware of filling up a site with a tide of poorly-written crap, a la 'I love hackernews.com because he hunts bugs and doesn't afraid of anything on hackernews.com!' It would help if we knew what the site was or what sort of content it needed. Like a lot of other HN readers, I'm usually happy to throw in 30 or 60 minutes of effort on adding to something that looks like it will be useful once it reaches critical mass.
- sendos 16y ago
  The site is http://soundkey.com http://soundkey.com, and it aims to be something like flickr for sounds. So, the content it needs is audio (recorded directly on the website, or uploaded by the user) for any sound that the user feels they want to share. It could be pronunciation of names, places, difficult words, etc, but it also can be just about any sound you think is interesting or want to share with others (since the website gives you a unique "soundkey" that you can post on facebook, twitter, etc.
  - jwegan 16y ago
    Since the users can record the sound on your site I think this is a good candidate for using mechanical turk. You can review the work users submit and accept (thus paying them) or reject (deny them pay). Obviously if you deny a lot of people, you will have a reputation of not paying people, but I think if you give people very clear guidelines and review what people submit it will work. You can also add filters like only allow people with approval ratings of greater than 90% to try and ensure you get good workers.
  - anigbrowl 16y ago
    Aha...now that is very interesting. And I just happen to be a pro audio engineer. Also one that is behind schedule today :-/ but I'll create an account and email tonight. My first impression of the site is very positive.
  - alanthonyc 16y ago
    You know, I really think you've got something here. You'll have no problem with content once people start hearing about your site. I feel like uploading a bunch of random sounds just by browsing through what you already have. Nice.

by jwegan 16y ago

anigbrowl 16y ago

Seconded, but beware of filling up a site with a tide of poorly-written crap, a la 'I love hackernews.com because he hunts bugs and doesn't afraid of anything on hackernews.com!' It would help if we knew what the site was or what sort of content it needed. Like a lot of other HN readers, I'm usually happy to throw in 30 or 60 minutes of effort on adding to something that looks like it will be useful once it reaches critical mass.

sendos 16y ago
The site is http://soundkey.com http://soundkey.com, and it aims to be something like flickr for sounds. So, the content it needs is audio (recorded directly on the website, or uploaded by the user) for any sound that the user feels they want to share. It could be pronunciation of names, places, difficult words, etc, but it also can be just about any sound you think is interesting or want to share with others (since the website gives you a unique "soundkey" that you can post on facebook, twitter, etc.
- jwegan 16y ago
  Since the users can record the sound on your site I think this is a good candidate for using mechanical turk. You can review the work users submit and accept (thus paying them) or reject (deny them pay). Obviously if you deny a lot of people, you will have a reputation of not paying people, but I think if you give people very clear guidelines and review what people submit it will work. You can also add filters like only allow people with approval ratings of greater than 90% to try and ensure you get good workers.
- anigbrowl 16y ago
  Aha...now that is very interesting. And I just happen to be a pro audio engineer. Also one that is behind schedule today :-/ but I'll create an account and email tonight. My first impression of the site is very positive.
- alanthonyc 16y ago
  You know, I really think you've got something here. You'll have no problem with content once people start hearing about your site. I feel like uploading a bunch of random sounds just by browsing through what you already have. Nice.