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> fiverr.com. Shell out $100 spread across a range of testers, and give them all slightly different briefings. Some feedback is terrible but there’s some gold there that’s really worth far more than $100.

Also check out Cent (https://beta.cent.co) - $20 in Ether can get you a pretty good set of responses. I am a cofounder - feel free to ama here or at cameron@cent.co

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So you want most of the work to happen for free? I really hope your product fails. This is even worse than mechanical turk.

The way Cent works is instead of having 100 people earn 20¢ (for a $20 bounty), $20 gets distributed to the top 10 responses. Respondents are encouraged to be thoughtful because the community votes on which 10 responses get the bounty.

Many responses don't get paid as a result but making it competitive adds more value for the bounty-asker and makes the whole thing more fun in general.

What about this do you find so terrible?

Great gain for the bounty-asker, great loss for everyone > 10. Big win-lose gap. Just plain exploitation of the workforce. I don't see the fun in that.

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