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   by anandkulkarni 15y ago

   We are in fact in beta right now, so we expect to announce formal pricing in the very near future for the digitizer and excavator products. Prices for new applications pushed with the API are always different. They're set based on the compl
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   by anandkulkarni 15y ago

   Right now it's kept internal for most purposes, but there's no reason not to open it up. The idea behind managed crowdsourcing is that end users shouldn't need to deal with reputation and crowd management themselves. The next version of the
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   by anandkulkarni 15y ago

   The developer sandbox presently shows a fairly faithful representation of what workers see when they use the application, including the phone number and chat window workers can use to contact us. If you'd like to reach us directly, you can
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   by anandkulkarni 15y ago

   Thanks for catching this! It's an unintended ambiguity in the wording. These TOS refer to the website itself, not to the API or platform. When you pay to use the MobileWorks crowd for your own work, the output is yours, not ours. We'll adap
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   by anandkulkarni 15y ago

   No offense taken! Thanks for your keen eye. In fact, it is a licensed use of this very image. Image classification is one of the tasks our crowd specializes in! You should consider joining the MobileWorks crowd. :)
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   by anandkulkarni 15y ago

   Let's figure out what's going on with your activation! Could you send us the username you're trying to activate, as well as your browser and OS stats? info@mobileworks.com. We'll get it resolved.
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   by anandkulkarni 15y ago

   In fact, I can guarantee they're not solving CAPTCHAs for hire. Our review process for new software applications keeps the quality of our tasks high and keeps spam work out. CAPTCHA-breaking jobs generally rely on sweatshop labor and don't
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   by anandkulkarni 15y ago

   On the contrary! You should be using our crowd instead of Turk's.
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   by anandkulkarni 15y ago

   The majority do, but no all. We track accuracy obsessively, and tasks requiring fluent English won't go to workers with the weakest skills. Our crowd is surprisingly diverse – there are medical students, engineers, doctors and housewives.
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    by anandkulkarni 15y ago

    Let me also add that you probably know my co-founders Prayag, Philipp, and Dave from their days at Cal. MobileWorks spun out of Berkeley's Department of CS and School of Information, and was built in response to the pain we all felt as the
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    by anandkulkarni 15y ago

    Thanks! I happen to think so, too :) The reason is that putting humans inside software lets you do incredibly powerful things. Here's one of my favorite examples from the academic world, but it took a slew of difficult crowd-control hacks a
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    by anandkulkarni 15y ago

    Thanks! Looking forward to having the research community start using our crowd and giving us their thoughts. Bonuses: no task starvation, no spammers, a usable API, and highly motivated workers.
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    by anandkulkarni 15y ago

    Sure thing. While the service is in beta, anyone can try a maximum of 100 tasks for free for any of the products built on MobileWorks: form digitization, web scraping, or tasks that new app developers build on the API. The idea is to get d
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    MobileWorks (YC S11) is a Hands-Off Mechanical Turk(techcrunch.com)

    151 points by anandkulkarni 15y ago|48 comments
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    by anandkulkarni 15y ago

    Looking forward to trying this! There's a lot left to do in collaboration, and a commercially-backed piece of software will be able to achieve some remarkable things. Collaborative code editing, in particular, is really an unsolved problem
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    by anandkulkarni 15y ago

    You want grad student mailing lists. Lab managers are often the unhappiest and lowest-ranked (or longest-lived) grad students. They'll love what you do. A simple email to their listserve and they'll use you right away. Sweeten the announce
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    by anandkulkarni 15y ago

    Very interesting! The real challenge for Jayant and Adam will be getting their tendrils deep into existing sales processes in labs. It's a sector that's prime for disruption - much like Octopart before them, these guys are primed to disrup