Stack Overflow meets MTurk
Productivity
favor marketplace
SHOW HN2012
How HN took it
1 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 9 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score -0.38.
Execution: 0 for, 6 againstIdea: 1 for, 3 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Idea for finding business ideas from common requests
From 1 comment
My first thought: a new source for business ideas. Read through favors, see which ones popup the most, implement solution.
jasonlotito on HN
Objections
Unclear who would do favors without reward beyond points
From 1 comment
I'm doing a (tangentially related) twist on this sort of thing, so I'll ask you the questions that haunted me for months until I could answer them about my own project: Who's…
wonderercat on HN
Users can create multiple accounts to farm favors
From 1 comment
So what prevents people from creating new accounts and acquiring new favors ? May be you should keep a mobile number verification....
meow on HN
Little content yet; only four favors posted
From 1 comment
the newest favors are the same set as the oldest favors :)
dbrosius on HN
Competes with MTurk and existing free tools
From 2 comments
I'm doing a (tangentially related) twist on this sort of thing, so I'll ask you the questions that haunted me for months until I could answer them about my own project: Who's…
wonderercat on HNMechanical Turk is a marketplace; are you planning to provide the opportunity for people to purchase points in the future? Sounds more like Experts-Exchange meets StackExchange.
libria on HN
Requests
Allow comments on favors
From 1 comment
Have you considered allowing comments on favors? People might want to discuss solutions they've seen in the past or ask for clarification.
girlvinyl on HN
Seed the site with favors to start
From 2 comments
I think you might want to work on 'faking it until you make it' by pre-seeding a ton of favors to ask of people.
michaelbuckbee on HNIf you developed this you could no doubt seed it quickly with some scripts or something. I don't think this would be wasted time, I checked it out... if there was something to…
redguava on HN
Verify users via email or mobile number
From 2 comments
So what prevents people from creating new accounts and acquiring new favors ? May be you should keep a mobile number verification....
meow on HNLike the other comments noted, you won't go far with email verification alone (they might even use a completely unrelated email address). You can probably use a combination of…
meow on HN
Questions
Is it legal to do that?
From 1 comment
http://www.minutefavors.com/favors/8 Is is legal to do that?
jusob on HN
Will point purchases be offered?
From 1 comment
Mechanical Turk is a marketplace; are you planning to provide the opportunity for people to purchase points in the future? Sounds more like Experts-Exchange meets StackExchange.
libria on HN
Alternatives named
Mechanical Turk
From 2 comments
I'm doing a (tangentially related) twist on this sort of thing, so I'll ask you the questions that haunted me for months until I could answer them about my own project: Who's…
wonderercat on HNMechanical Turk is a marketplace; are you planning to provide the opportunity for people to purchase points in the future? Sounds more like Experts-Exchange meets StackExchange.
libria on HN
Stack Overflow / Experts-Exchange
From 1 comment
Mechanical Turk is a marketplace; are you planning to provide the opportunity for people to purchase points in the future? Sounds more like Experts-Exchange meets StackExchange.
libria on HN
IRC
From 1 comment
I've heard of this place that's been around for decades where you can log in, ask questions and quickly get answers for free in real time from knowledgeable people. I believe…
spurgu on HN
jig.com
From 1 comment
jig.com in another bottle ?
rshm on HN