Ask HN: Where do you find survey respondents?

2 pointsoldmanstan4 comments

I'm trying to find 50 respondents for a survey I create. The problem is: I need them to be a specific "type" - art lover/artists, 13-50 years old, and from the United States.

Are there any good online services that could help me with finding surveyees? (Free is better; paying is an option.)

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I just posted about Amazon Mechanical Turk in the story immediately before yours - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1704704 - but in all honesty, I have heard of a few people getting good results, although I don't know if you can target specific demographics too easily.

I think a good bet would be to pay for Facebook ads as they have pretty awesome demographic filtering. Check it out here: http://www.facebook.com/ads/create/

Interesting. How strictly can you filter the respondents using Mechanical Turk? And is it only by demographics, or also by interests and other criteria?

Sorry if I wasn't more clear - I'm not actually sure how granular you can get with mturk.com. I don't think their filtering is that exhaustive. If I lived in the US, I'd be able to try and let you know though!

You can use Amazon's Mechanical Turk Service to hire people to take surveys. Read this earlier post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1668588

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