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Re:The Startup Dragon by tansey on Saturday January 14, 2012 @08:02PM (#3465911)
Fun article to write. I crowdsourced all those images on Mechanical Turk in about an hour. Best $2 I ever spent! :)
Re:The Startup Dragon by gwern on Saturday January 14, 2012 @09:55PM (#3466165)
I actually thought this was kind of boring and wasn't going to upvote, until I read that the images were from Mechanical Turk and your instructions.
Re:The Startup Dragon by dmils4 on Saturday January 14, 2012 @08:07PM (#3465921)
Nice one. And that's awesome. Do you have the mturk job writeup? Curious to see how the description matches the actuals.
Re:The Startup Dragon by tansey on Saturday January 14, 2012 @08:11PM (#3465929)
I didn't save them. They were something along the lines of:

"Draw a man in a cave being chased by a fire-breathing dragon. He is desperately trying to remove a bunch of stones that are blocking his path. A fairy and a forklift just appeared beside him."

I can only hope that I made the turkers laugh a little bit when they saw that. :)

Re:The Startup Dragon by dmils4 on Saturday January 14, 2012 @08:20PM (#3465946)
Cool. Yeah, my favorite part of turk is using it for more creative jobs like this, had to ask. You should make this a habit with your blog posts - I'd read every post, just to see how a turker interprets your startup experiences.
Re:The Startup Dragon by tansey on Saturday January 14, 2012 @08:26PM (#3465956)
I actually am planning on doing that! I had an idea for one today that I'll probably post later next week.