Show HN: mail2brain, email attachment timesaver

Yes, mturk is the backend. Amazon links can monetize it.

Interesting idea. Wondering A) how this is done (mturk?) and B) how this will be monetized.

I really really like it, but I can see this getting very expensive, very fast.

Kitchen Towels are not the most exciting of demo images :)

Now that you have made it clear that humans will see each message get ready for a torrent of penis photos. Some times I feel bad for the mechanical turkers.

Better explanation would be great, still wondering what it does - What is the common use case ?

Can this scale? The problem with mturk is you can't make <i>any</i> QoS guarantees.

"How did we do" should allow for comments. I rated a response "ok" but would have preferred to be able to explain that it was good that the source of the image was identified, but bad that the associated product was not.

Common use cases:<p>transcribing voicemails from emails.<p>finding products for shopping without having to do the search yourself.

Are you aware that the Amazon app for Android / iPhone already does the product lookup / barcode scanning ("by humans") for you?

mail2brain.com took 6 minutes to identify the product Product: Spiderman Link: <a href="http://mail2brain.com/static/f00dba0fe1218b1f9b5becd0483e869529ff92c8_full.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://mail2brain.com/static/f00dba0fe1218b1f9b5becd0483e869...</a> Well, heavy heavy cool frontend for mturk :)

this is fantastic. good idea.