Amazon Mechanical Turk
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Nov 2, 2025first mention
Aug 27, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I used it to have transcribed our 2 kids x 5 years of daycare x 180 days a year worth of extensive wonderful daily reports from daycare.”
“MTurk was pure magic if you knew how to use it to its full potential.”
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“I scanned them and used mturk to have them transcribed.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
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“Overall, I still have fondness to mturk, but it was really bare-bones experience that needed a lot of work to get working effectively.”
“I used it to have people transcribe my dad’s handwritten letters and journals.”
“the infra already exists through MTurk”
“I used it to have transcribed our 2 kids x 5 years of daycare x 180 days a year worth of extensive wonderful daily reports from daycare.”
“I used to to run UX surveys”
“MTurk was pure magic if you knew how to use it to its full potential.”
“I used MTurk to analyze the images of people applying for a loan.”
“I scanned them and used mturk to have them transcribed.”