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Content Moderation with Scale API(blog.scaleapi.com)
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OCR and Messenger Bots with Scale API(blog.scaleapi.com)
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by ayw 10y ago
Thanks for the write up Gordon! We really appreciate it here at Scale :)
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Using Scale (YC S16) and Twitter to Calculate Brand Equity(blog.scaleapi.com)
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Show HN: Introducing the Scale API (YC S16) Data Collection Endpoint(blog.scaleapi.com)
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New Scale API Dashboard(blog.scaleapi.com)
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What I wish I had known before YC S16(medium.com)
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by ayw 10y ago
Hey there—I'm CEO and cofounder of Scale API (YC S16, https://scaleapi.com ), which is a developer-first API for human tasks. We allow customers outside the US, and are much more focused on quality than MTurk. Definitely giv
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Show HN: Demo for Scale API (YC S16) Image Annotation API(annotate-demo.scaleapi.com)
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by ayw 10y ago
Thanks! We try to have cool demos :) We're working on having faster and faster guarantees, but for now we'll guarantee responses within 20 minutes. It's definitely much faster normally. By default, Scale is built using webhoo
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Scale (YC S16) Bounding Box API – Image Annotations by Humans via API(blog.scaleapi.com)
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by ayw 10y ago
Applications of human-in-the-loop systems like this are exactly why we built Scale API (www.scaleapi.com, YC S16). Unfortunately, Mechanical Turk is often a bad choice these days for these types of applications—it's extremely difficult
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by ayw 10y ago
For one, as a company, we're fully focused on our API (whereas Fancy Hands is primarily focused on the consumer assistant product). That means they're less willing and agile to help developers, learn about their use cases, or supp
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by ayw 10y ago
Not yet ;)
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by ayw 10y ago
Thanks Anand! We truly appreciate all your support and advice :)
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by ayw 10y ago
Thanks! For now, there are a couple main differences: * High quality team members we personally vet (vs. the crowdsource model) * Significantly simpler API * We build all the tooling for our team members ensuring they complete things effici
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by ayw 10y ago
Human error is an issue that we're always tackling. First, we're hiring a really high quality team so we're minimizing error from the start. Beyond that, we have a review system in place for the human responses, to ensure tha
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by ayw 10y ago
Hey everyone! I'm Alex, co-founder at Scale. Our goal with Scale is to empower the next generation of human-driven products. If you have any uses cases in your company or just as a developer, please email me at alex@scaleapi.com and I&
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by ayw 10y ago
That seems feasible as long as you give very explicit instructions to the person performing the task. I'm not sure if I could do that without instructions!
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by ayw 10y ago
One of our goals is to be able to provide flat, predictable pricing to developers so it's extremely easy for them to integrate. For now, the $.50 flat pricing has been working well, because most phone calls are pretty limited in length
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by ayw 10y ago
For now we support categorization, transcription, and phone calls (which are each pretty broad categories and can be used for a wide variety of tasks). You can see our docs here: http://docs.scaleapi.com/ We're intenti
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by ayw 10y ago
MTurk has a huge quality problem (around 40% is spam) due to being crowdsourced, and it has a pretty high barrier to entry to get something working well. We hire our own members who we screen for quality for particular tasks, meaning they&#
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by ayw 10y ago
Hi HN! We're really excited to share Scale with all of you. Our goal is to make it really easy for startups to integrate human tasks and BPO into their companies. Give us a try (your first 10 requests are free)! And contact us if you t
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Show HN: Scale is an API for human tasks(scaleapi.com)
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by ayw 10y ago
If there's any information that's extremely sensitive, we'd work with you to find a good way to anonymize it to the workers. Other than that, we don't need to store your files so you could completely control the content.
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Show HN: Ava is a mobile concierge for finding and booking doctors appointments(itunes.apple.com)
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by ayw 11y ago
This type of thing makes me proud to be at MIT :)
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AVA, an AI assistant for specialists(heyava.com)
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Ava (assistant for professional services) reveals prototype(heyava.com)
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Ava is a virtual assistant for professional services(heyava.com)
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