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Might be a bit off topic, but does anyone know a good alternative to MTurk for people outside the US?

http://www.clickworker.com is based in Europe, with European workers and has a good reputation.

As others are suggesting, Crowdflower works, and works well, with an excellent API. Also they are just good people. (They use an assortment of workforces)

For smaller jobs self service jobs like the one described in this article SmartSheet UI is amazing. http://www.smartsheet.com/ (MTurk based)

And if you need bigger stuff (or text oriented stuff), with some consulting you can contact me, or my company http://castingwords.com (MTurk based)

I successfully used http://www.crowdflower.com to submit jobs to MT from outside the US.

Hi zumda, I have used http://crowdflower.com before. You get an account manager to help you which is neccessary as there is no supporting documentation and the interface is a little confusing / unhelpful when things don't work out.

I'm building an API on top of MTurk, http://houdinihq.com, that you could use. It's currently in alpha, but feel free to email me at presto@houdinihq.com if you're interested in an api key.

Simple API looks really simple, something that I definitely like!

How do you plan to accept payments? How much would Houdini itself cost (per task, per month?)? Do you plan to accept non-US users?

Thanks! We also have some more advanced apis in the works, like asking multiple workers to do the same work and automatically determining the 'true' answer. From your point of view, they'll be just as easy to use though.

Pricing is still TBD. MTurk charges will be passed through directly to you with Houdini-specific charges either per task or per month.

Yeah, I'm planning on accepting non-US users.

I believe that Feedback army is explicitly designed for this sort of thing. It is layered on top of MT, But takes paypal or credit cards directly, and is dead-simple to use.

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