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Can you give an example of a business that is presently getting good traction? I somehow find it hard to recognize trends. I guess I am a hard core skeptical w
by paraschopra 18y ago
Can you give an example of a business that is presently getting good traction?
I somehow find it hard to recognize trends. I guess I am a hard core skeptical when it comes to noise v/s signal.
- eru 18y agoNot presently, but a good example: Facebook was copied by the German Studivz quite succesful some time ago. Setting up a Mechanical Turk for non-US markets might work. (As of today you can work on mturk as a foreigner, but you can not commision tasks.)
- streety 18y agoI hadn't realised that mturk requests could only be made in the US. I was planning on using it to save myself a little time in a side project I'm working on. A quick google search turns up ways around this though. http://www.hit-builder.com/ http://www.hit-builder.com/ offers a way around this problem for a $25 setup fee and 5% of use. I'm not familiar with mturk or this service but I suspect operating costs aren't that high. A barebones / follow on competitor could be a nice side project if you aren't concerned about amazon destroying your business model at some point in the future.
- eru 18y agoI was in the same position as you: I wanted to try mturk myself. That way I noticed that you have to be in the US. I did not investigate the matter further. Thanks for finding hit-builder!