Amazon Mechanical Turk - Day 4

November 12, 2005

So four days and 505 HITs later I知 sitting at a cool $6.84. Note: More than half of my HITs are still in the pending state. I知 getting pretty quick at cracking these off, with my tabletPC I知 down to < 5-10 seconds pet HIT. At 3 cents a hit, I知 not really sure if this is a waste of time or not, for now I知 just going to do enough to buy a book I致e been wanting.

I usually do these while I知 waiting for code to compile, uploading files or installing software. Also I did a whole bunch while I was watching TV the other night. Some time this weekend I知 going to actually get a timer and see how many of these I can rip off in one solid hour. I知 hoping that getting on early will have the same advantage as being one of the first developers on Rentacoder.com. Maybe beefing up your stats up early will help you get the higher paying hits later? Who knows? For now this is a neat way for me to buy used books.

From a business aspect, I知 thinking of ways to profit from issuing work to this website. Right now A9 is burning a big pile of cash to get all of these images for their mapping service. What I知 looking to develop is a system that provides profit on a per-transaction basis. People are going to flock to Amazon Turk once the word gets out, and I want to take advantage of their powerful brains :)

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  1. I’d like to chat with you about the system you mention at the end of this post. Please contact me at your convenience.

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