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I 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 va

by cek 15y ago

I 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 ago
That'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.