Mechanical Turk Lessons Learned

Re:Mechanical Turk Lessons Learned by ayw on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @02:59PM (#13544454)

Hey guys! I'm cofounder of Scale API (www.scaleapi.com), a YC S16 company building an API for human intelligence. We've been working to obviate the need to tune your system to work on products like MTurk, and instead have a really simple API that just works. We've worked to build technology to guarantee quality to our customers and build a simple developer experience.

I really respect your ability to work with MTurk and have it work for you guys. In our experience, it often takes significant effort to get anything remotely functional and reliable on MTurk. That's why we're building Scale :)

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Re:Mechanical Turk Lessons Learned by _nothing on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @07:39PM (#13546975)

I listened to you on Software Engineering Daily! Haven't found a use for the service yet but I've been keeping you guys in the back of my mind in case a good use case comes up at work.

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Re:Mechanical Turk Lessons Learned by brilliantcode on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @06:01PM (#13546290)

scaleapi is great but too expensive to justify not building out your own QA process. Also don't want to be basing your product around an API that may or may not exist in a few years.

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Re:Mechanical Turk Lessons Learned by liveink on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @03:03PM (#13544506)

Huge fan of scale, could never get MTurk to work at the quality I wanted.

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