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Let me check this for MobileWorks platform: Low effort, high reward: You can use MobileWorks' simple API to use humans to do some tasks for you which may not e
by prayag 15y ago
Let me check this for MobileWorks platform:
Low effort, high reward:
You can use MobileWorks' simple API to use humans to do some tasks for you which may not even be possible for complicated AI algorithms. So, check.
Enable multiple points of value for free
The first 100 tasks are free. You can get a lot done with that. So, check.
Make it accessible
MobileWorks is REST-based. Uses simple auth over https and no API key. So, check there too.
Tooting my own horn aside. I think it comes down to reward/effort ratio. If a programmer can get a lot of reward for limited effort that's great. It he can get little reward for no effort, that's good too. But high reward low efforts works well enough too. I think that's the only metric programmers look at.
- cek 15y agoI don't know much about MobileWorks other than spending 5 minutes browsing the website. But it does not appear to be a platform to me. It is a service. The value of the service is connecting developers to armies of humans who can do manual tasks. Developers pay MobileWorks for that value. Some part of that money gets passed onto the humans who do the work. This is a service. Not a platform. There is no virtious cycle where multiple 3rd parties derive value from each other through the platform.
- prayag 15y agoThat's a great point and fairly accurate from a bird's eye view. However, MobileWorks does much more than connecting developers and humans. MobileWorks lets developers define the tasks and then makes sure that the workforce comes to the right conclusion. In some manner it lets people negotiate on the answers. However, this is completely transparent to the developers. For a developer, it is more on the lines of 'call an api and get an answer'. I think MobileWorks is closer to something like Heroku than to say AirBnB.