Love the idea (and yet another "invisible apps") but naturally I have skepticism about the quality and timeliness of the work. Although this just launched, has anyone tried it?
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@rrhoover I sent them an email request 4 hours ago, but haven't heard back yet. Although perhaps that could be put down to the Product Hunt effect? :)
I was skeptical at first, but after reading the use cases on the site, it clicked.
This looks amazing for those simple-but-time-consuming tasks we all run into from time to time (or for a person with programming expertise in one area to get help in another). The dead-simple & fast interface of short emails matches the problem space too. Hope this takes off, I like the idea of having it around.
Added to my collection of time-saving products "For the impatient"
@staringispolite As far as I am concerned, I am still highly skeptikal. Who wants a website scrapped if not someone that is actually able to scrape it? Definition of small task is super relative. And usually the technical complexity is in plugging things together, not doing the small scrape or whatever...
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> Who wants a website scrapped if not someone that is actually able to scrape it?
Anyone who's time limited, including people capable of writing the scraper themselves. I could code any of their examples myself, but I sure as heck don't want to spend my time on scrapers, data importers, skeleton apps, etc
It looks glorious! It's going to take a lot of stress out of someone's day being able to lease out a small task that could take them days, but takes this team a few hours.
@_jacksmith Yes. This is true. MTurks is more for repetitive data entry type of tasks. It's nice to see that this service can handle both of these tasks.
It goes without saying I was curious about this.
I don't think I've ever had a programming job that didn't involve some distracting side requests from some manager or other staff member. If the pricing worked out, I could see myself using this to do a smaller scale of that guy who outsourced his whole job. Basically, delegate someone to do bullshit tasks so I can do my actual job.
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