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Something I learned on HN a long, long,long time ago was that if you wanted really cheap, unfiltered traffic, you could buy quite a bit of it using Mechanical T
by cellis 15y ago
Something I learned on HN a long, long,long time ago was that if you wanted really cheap, unfiltered traffic, you could buy quite a bit of it using Mechanical Turk. As the commenter said "It's pretty amazing what will happen if you throw up a few nickels". I've only used it once, but it worked.
But with only $200 you want to make sure every dollar -- every penny -- counts towards getting action. So I would use it on the most targetted ads I could get. For most fly-by-night web apps that only have a $200 ad budget, adwords would be the best way to do this.
- stfu 15y agoCan you elaborate a bit more on the MT strategies? I have used it in the past to create survey data the quick way, but ho do you use it for traffic?
- cellis 15y agoIt's really as easy as creating a HIT(? been a while but I think that's what they're called) that says "Beta test this website/app/game" for $0.05. You will probably get a lot of feedback that you didn't expect, even if you don't ask for it. You can get more sophisticated if you want, but that's all I did. I ended up getting around 4000 seed users for a Facebook app I built in '08 this way.
- cannuk 15y agoI agree that this can work. However, they are very strict about collecting any sort of personal data from the MT workers. Thus you may end up not having any stick from this because you cant ask them for an email. Cellis, how did you get around this?
- cellis 15y agoWow, I actually found the link! You can read it for yourself here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=341774 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=341774