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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
If you're in the Bay Area, come talk to us. Do good with Django. https://mobileworks.com/jobs
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
This was probably the most important discovery I made in the startup process. Helps guarantee that you make something people want.
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
It's not mentioned in the article, but this is the same tech as Premier ( https://premier.mobileworks.com ) under a different name. The easiest way to try it is to send a task to premier@mobileworks.com, or to use Nathan Kontny's excellent
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Need a shot of creative juices? Call the crowd(newscientist.com)
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
I can't wait to buy one, even if it's just to print gifts for friends and nameplates for the office. Every time I hear more about this domain (typically from folks like iamwil at CubeHero) I become more excited by the possibilities. It's a
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Visualizing the Facebook equality meme(elenaagapie.com)
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by anandkulkarni 14y ago
Yep, works fine. I just wrote this post in Draft. Didn't have a Pro help out, but looks like that works too.
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Draft Everywhere(ninjasandrobots.com)
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by anandkulkarni 14y ago
Actually, TechCrunch misheard the pitch. CircuitLab's founders are pursuing a $500 million market in circuit simulation software, and a market in the billions that might come from recommending ideal component choices at the CAD level. No
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by anandkulkarni 14y ago
This really inspires a lot of possibilities (and seems even easier than setting up with Parse). You could make some killer mobile massively multiplayer games like this -- the next Spaceteam or MMO Pong. Can't wait to try it out! Which apps
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by anandkulkarni 14y ago
Very cool, guys! Love the design.
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Daily Habits of Game-changing Social Innovators(forbes.com)
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by anandkulkarni 14y ago
Much love for the work, Lydia, but if you'd just asked me instead we could've saved you $700 :)
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by anandkulkarni 14y ago
I remember thinking that Clerky was perhaps the most remarkably disruptive service in our YC class. As the person responsible for handling most of our early-stage paperwork and financing documents, I can't tell you how much easier it made o
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by anandkulkarni 14y ago
In New York? Probably working someplace like Grouper. They seem to have a lot of fun. https://www.joingrouper.com/jobs Otherwise, maybe Codeacademy, since their mission is noble?
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by anandkulkarni 14y ago
Is this only for people who don't have a product order form yet, or is there a way for us to benefit from using you too?
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by anandkulkarni 14y ago
This was a curious design choice by Amazon. By choosing to use Amazon IDs as worker identifiers, Mechanical Turk gets all of the disadvantages of having anonymous strangers do jobs on the web -- lack of accountability, diminished incentives
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Mechanical Turk Workers Are Not Anonymous(crowdresearch.org)
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by anandkulkarni 14y ago
Wow, this is a huge partnership. Opens up a massive range of end-user possibilities. Very exciting; can't wait to play with this myself.
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by anandkulkarni 14y ago
I like this concept, and I think it can be improved through some more experimenting with the UI. Here's my feedback: from an interface perspective a visual process for organizing tasks is very appealing. But things weren't as intuitive as
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by anandkulkarni 14y ago
We actually do this at MobileWorks (mobileworks.com). There's an API that lets you get N minutes from N people filtered by demographic. Some folks use our Premier product for on-demand testing set up by email -- they send test requests to
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by anandkulkarni 14y ago
Do you have any idea how well this will for a website that's not selling product tours? Would be eager to know if it works somewhere else.
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by anandkulkarni 14y ago
I think the key advantage here is that it's not different folks each time. We allocate the same pool of people to collaborate on your work whenever possible, so you can train them and develop a trusted relationship. Our thinking is that th
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by anandkulkarni 14y ago
Yep, that's where we see a core value add; it's painful to find good assistants, and we think we've solved that part of the problem by cultivating a core group from our backend.
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by anandkulkarni 14y ago
Yes, actually. Because a lot of the early users were entrepreneurs, Premier has some experience in navigating the paperwork requirements for this material -- and there's some state, so they'll learn and share strategies over time. Pretty in
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by anandkulkarni 14y ago
It was reasonably popular, but difficult to predict usage. You can still see it there - it's not labeled as such, but it's the "Starter" plan -- this will bill you per hour, with a minimum of one per week.
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by anandkulkarni 14y ago
We used to have an "hourly" model, and may bring it back. Would this be of interest to you? The reason we do a weekly model is that it lets us plan capacity.
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by anandkulkarni 14y ago
Thanks a bunch! Look forward to seeing you.
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by anandkulkarni 14y ago
Thanks! The email-to-post is the easiest way to try it out. Just send work to premier@mobileworks.com and it'll get done.
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by anandkulkarni 14y ago
They're actually all real requests people sent in. What do you think could make it more apparent? Perhaps we could show the results?

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