Mechanical Turk Usage

Users frequently suggest, inquire about, or discuss using Amazon Mechanical Turk for crowdsourcing microtasks like data entry, labeling, research participation, and other manual work in tech projects.

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Sample Comments

YokoZar Mar 30, 2013 View on HN

There's always mechanical turk.

grag Nov 23, 2008 View on HN

Anyone know if this uses Amazon Mechanical Turk?

DanBC Jul 5, 2012 View on HN

Isn't this something that could be Mechanical Turked?

dkokelley Jul 14, 2009 View on HN

This sounds like a job for Mechanical Turk.

PonyGumbo Jul 31, 2012 View on HN

Don't forget about Mechanical Turk.

helwr Mar 14, 2010 View on HN

try Mechanical Turk, https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome

dpapathanasiou Nov 12, 2009 View on HN

Have you tried Mechanical Turk?

revorad Feb 11, 2012 View on HN

Have you tried Mechanical Turk?

martin-adams Oct 6, 2015 View on HN

Like with Mechanical Turk right?

fred_is_fred May 31, 2024 View on HN

Would this work with Mechanical Turk? I wonder how much it would be.