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My side project involves recognition of captchas; it is a pretty tough one-time time investment to create a recognizer, involving machine learning, image manipu
by wladimir 16y ago
My side project involves recognition of captchas; it is a pretty tough one-time time investment to create a recognizer, involving machine learning, image manipulation and statistics, but as payment is on a per-captcha basis, the income after that is passive income. I started with this a few years ago, and after two weeks of obsessive-compulsive hacking, my first dollars started flowing in. All in all it now gets me something like $2000 per month.
- forkrulassail 16y agoLink me, I would like to become a customer.
- wladimir 16y agoI don't have public a site up for the project. But we could get in touch through mail, my mail is miathan.6<at>gmail.com .
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoAre your customers spammers? I'm having some trouble thinking of a legitimate use for this service...
- wladimir 16y agoNope, they are not spammers, the captchas are not for creating accounts; it has another use. But obviously I cannot go into details about my customers here.
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoFair enough, good luck!
- VladRussian 16y agoit may be the sites themselves doing "pentest" on their own captchas
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoCharging by the captcha doesn't make much sense if that's what they are doing, though...
- gjm11 16y agoWhat fraction of your customers are anything other than spammers?