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Looks great. I think the price is right. The website is very clear. Maybe the examples should be more business oriented. You should also include the time frame

by jusob 17y ago

Looks great. I think the price is right. The website is very clear. Maybe the examples should be more business oriented. You should also include the time frame to get the 50 answers: 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week? Can we choose, or at least influence the demography (only women, only people below 35, etc.)?

justinchen 17y ago
Thanks. Good point about more business-oriented examples. The time frame varies since it depends on the people answering the question, but it's usually within a couple hours - good idea to note that on the site. Unfortunately, can't choose demography but we try to break out the responses in a bunch of different ways so you can visually filter which demographic you're interested in.
- andrewparker 17y ago
  Justin, I've been mucking around for awhile in MTurk trying to use Qualifications to create an survey that would target a specific demographic. Have you cracked this nut? Is this something you're considering adding to extend the product? Or is it simply not within the scope of MTurk's capabilities?
  - johnli 17y ago
    We looked at using Qualifications a bit, but quickly decided that it wasn't worth our time to deal with them, at least for PickFu in its current state.
    - netsp 17y ago
      I quite like that it's ultra-simple right now. 1 price, few options. Not something you need to think about too much. Just do it. I'm not saying that choosing your own demographics, number of participants, more complex surveys might not be useful sometimes. But I love that I can get my head around this in 10 seconds.
johnli 17y ago
another one of the creators here, thanks for the warm comments. a follow-up question - how much more compelling would this be if you could choose/influence the demographics and # of responses (potentially at a higher cost)?
- rathboma 17y ago
  I really like the site, and it is well executed. I think I'll certainly use it at some point. Good price point. I completely agree that there needs to be some way to restrict who answers questions. Another example would be if someone was making a Twitter application, they might want to restrict people who answer the question to only those that use twitter. Or if you were doing something aimed at webmasters, you might want to restrict the responses to people employed as such. As also mentioned in other comments, use your poll system to do your own poll on how desirable this could be.
- encoderer 17y ago
  I would personally find it more compelling, but I'd suggest that it shouldn't be a premium feature. When it comes to consume research, demographics are everything. Statistical significance of sub-samples can plummet quickly. If I'm marketing a product specifically to, say, 30-44yo men, it would be valuable to restrict the sample exclusively to those men and I think i'd have a better chance of seeing statistical meaning in the sub-samples I'm looking for, eg, income, marital status, etc. It seems to me now that I'd have to post it "at large" and the 30-44yo demo I'm looking for would itself be a sub-sample. I am not a marketing professional, but as a small business owner its one of my many hats. I have used both Maritz and, more recently, Pinecone, and I'm probably wrong but I don't remember even being presented with an option to open the surveys to everybody. And what I'm saying is.. I wouldn't even consider using your product without that ability. You have a fantastic 1.0, though, so I'm not knocking the product, just offering my $0.02. And some demographics of your own: We've got a dozen of us on the payroll with 2009 sales looking to be a bit over $2MM. And no joke, if I were you, I'd eat your dogfood and put up a survey to determine the importance of this feature! EDIT: I do want to add that I get that your site is supposed to be intro-level market research. But if you're going to limit to 50 replies, demographic targeting would be very important to me, for anything other than a "should we get thai or pizza for lunch" questions. If you do let me collect 500-1000 replies, I'd probably have more statistically meaningful sub-samples, so as long as you give me a nice drill-down interface I'd find it useful, even if i couldn't target my question.

by jusob 17y ago

justinchen 17y ago

Thanks. Good point about more business-oriented examples. The time frame varies since it depends on the people answering the question, but it's usually within a couple hours - good idea to note that on the site. Unfortunately, can't choose demography but we try to break out the responses in a bunch of different ways so you can visually filter which demographic you're interested in.

andrewparker 17y ago
Justin, I've been mucking around for awhile in MTurk trying to use Qualifications to create an survey that would target a specific demographic. Have you cracked this nut? Is this something you're considering adding to extend the product? Or is it simply not within the scope of MTurk's capabilities?
- johnli 17y ago
  We looked at using Qualifications a bit, but quickly decided that it wasn't worth our time to deal with them, at least for PickFu in its current state.
  - netsp 17y ago
    I quite like that it's ultra-simple right now. 1 price, few options. Not something you need to think about too much. Just do it. I'm not saying that choosing your own demographics, number of participants, more complex surveys might not be useful sometimes. But I love that I can get my head around this in 10 seconds.

johnli 17y ago

another one of the creators here, thanks for the warm comments. a follow-up question - how much more compelling would this be if you could choose/influence the demographics and # of responses (potentially at a higher cost)?

rathboma 17y ago
I really like the site, and it is well executed. I think I'll certainly use it at some point. Good price point. I completely agree that there needs to be some way to restrict who answers questions. Another example would be if someone was making a Twitter application, they might want to restrict people who answer the question to only those that use twitter. Or if you were doing something aimed at webmasters, you might want to restrict the responses to people employed as such. As also mentioned in other comments, use your poll system to do your own poll on how desirable this could be.
encoderer 17y ago
I would personally find it more compelling, but I'd suggest that it shouldn't be a premium feature. When it comes to consume research, demographics are everything. Statistical significance of sub-samples can plummet quickly. If I'm marketing a product specifically to, say, 30-44yo men, it would be valuable to restrict the sample exclusively to those men and I think i'd have a better chance of seeing statistical meaning in the sub-samples I'm looking for, eg, income, marital status, etc. It seems to me now that I'd have to post it "at large" and the 30-44yo demo I'm looking for would itself be a sub-sample. I am not a marketing professional, but as a small business owner its one of my many hats. I have used both Maritz and, more recently, Pinecone, and I'm probably wrong but I don't remember even being presented with an option to open the surveys to everybody. And what I'm saying is.. I wouldn't even consider using your product without that ability. You have a fantastic 1.0, though, so I'm not knocking the product, just offering my $0.02. And some demographics of your own: We've got a dozen of us on the payroll with 2009 sales looking to be a bit over $2MM. And no joke, if I were you, I'd eat your dogfood and put up a survey to determine the importance of this feature! EDIT: I do want to add that I get that your site is supposed to be intro-level market research. But if you're going to limit to 50 replies, demographic targeting would be very important to me, for anything other than a "should we get thai or pizza for lunch" questions. If you do let me collect 500-1000 replies, I'd probably have more statistically meaningful sub-samples, so as long as you give me a nice drill-down interface I'd find it useful, even if i couldn't target my question.