I really like seeing all of these companies like MobileWorks, Exec, Uber, et al that are solving problems that are very challenging but in more of an operational way than technical (although technology obviously plays a large role).
I'm impressed with the accuracy of MobileWorks over mechanical Turk (or pure MT- not sure if MW just filters workers heavily). I tried a receipt transcription task where I fed the same instructions and same photo to both services. Out of the box, MW was 100% while MT was about 90% for the same cost.
Where do they hire their workforce from? Are they overseas or American workers?<p>[edit] The main reason I was asking this, was I find it really surprising that you're able to hire skilled/educated workers at an outsourcing rate. It's even more surprising that you're finding them organically through press. I'd imagine most TechCrunch readers are over qualified for that kind of work. Kudos to you for making it happen though.
This is awesome stuff. I am glad that they are attacking the accuracy angle since for a lot of tasks I care a lot about accuracy and not so much on saving the last $.
We are also launching a new and improved API today. <a href="https://www.mobileworks.com/developers/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mobileworks.com/developers/</a>
I do a lot of crowdsourcing (see here <a href="http://weusethat.com/metaoptimize" rel="nofollow">http://weusethat.com/metaoptimize</a>) and I'm curious to use MobileWorks.<p>What is the pricing for small jobs?<p>I have a lot of small jobs, so "contact us for a quote" isn't appropriate when my jobs change often.