> Turn a passive audience into engaged particpants. 2) Turn
> your audience int your army.
That's marketing speak.
How about: "Let's say you want to build a website that shows the different rates for parking garages around San Francisco, but you don't have the pricing data. Human.io can help you get hoards of strangers to run around the city, snapping pictures of pricing signs at garages, and uploading the pictures to you. Viola, now you have the data."
Is that vaguely what human.io can do?
Had no idea what human.io did until I read this comment. Then I was "Oh, wow. That's a good idea."
Yes, exactly.
You could do all sorts of things. How do I wrap it up into one sentence without marketing speak?
I love pud's example. Come up with 2-3 more scenarios like those and put them on the home page.
Edit to add: "a Mechanical Turk for tasks not easily done at a computer" isn't a bad description either.
Re:Introducing human.io
by jonahkagan on Friday August 31, 2012 @04:18AM
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> Come up with 2-3 more scenarios like those and...
...ask users to vote on them using human.io
<3. Wish I could come up with a short term use case for human.io now :(
An army of real people ready to gather data, create new experiences, or anything else you can dream up -- at the press of a button.
This is a nice one.
Thanks. You're welcome to it or any part of it.
As a developer, I would love to see what the API looks like and some sample scripting:
humans = init({ count:100, gender:male });
task_navigate = task({ type:navigate, uri:{latitude:123, longitude:456} });
task_photograph = task({ type:photograph });
for (human in humans) {
human->task(task_navigate);
human->task(task_photograph);
}
http://human.io/docs perhaps?
How might you use human.io to answer that?
The problem is that what we have built is very, very broad, so narrowing it is difficult.
The platform lets you send people little bundles of UI and have them interact. That's incredibly broad and vague!
So here are some examples: You could get them to take pictures of all the storefronts in a town. You could send them realtime surveys to go along with a television show. You could have them rate sessions at a conference. You could have someone be notified when they walk onto a car dealership and offer them the chance to look up car prices.
Explaining this with one line has been very difficult so far. My favorites so far are: 1) Turn a passive audience into engaged particpants. 2) Turn your audience int your army.