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An app that let's people perform Mechanical Turk tasks in their spare time. Your job will be to find tasks that are easy to do on a phone and streamline the process. Tasks like deciding if a picture is NSFW comes to mind.

The app would be free, but you'd charge some percentage of Turk wages.

With this app, people can finally earn spare change using a $200 phone and $30+/month data plan!

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+1 this would be great.

Perhaps you could use mechanical turk to choose suitable tasks for the app. Unless you have the desire to create the wicked algorithm required.

Great idea! I'm also considering a survey engine for Mechanical Turk tasks. If you have more input, feel free to contact me. (too bad HN doesnt have private messages)

You mean something like feedbackarmy, but more generalized for other types of surveys?

Yes. Actually I was expecting an answer to what do YOU hackers would like to have and dont want to pay for it. For the moment this is the most voted idea but I'm still open for more input if you have other ideas.

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