Anyone here have experience hiring people on sites like Mechanical Turk, oDesk, TaskRabbit, or Fiverr? What kind of stuff did you hire them to do, and how good were they at doing it? It seems like these services could be potentially quite valuable so I'd like to get an idea of what it's possible to do with them.
I've hired TaskRabbits for the following tasks, with the following levels of success:
Drive me from DC to Baltimore and back the next day - perfect & cheap
Assemble a Superintelligence owl costume and deliver it to me on the same day, with just a picture and a suggestion for the method - perfect
Pick up laundry from my back porch, have it washed, dried, folded, and return in in boxes - perfect
Make me an Anki flashcard deck for some faces and names from a business's Our Team page - perfect
Data entry - Good, though slow
Find me a good haircut place and style...
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