09/30 - Well, Where is it? Wednesday

Kathleen! · Sep 30, 2026 at 1:58 PM

purplepotato · Sep 30, 2026 at 2:13 PM

NBadger · Sep 30, 2026 at 2:15 PM

InfiniteChanges said: ↑

more like theyre just going to stop paying for the utilities that run the offsite warehouse that has the servers, and the maintenance staff, and where the local delivery drivers use a restroom, and their US customer support... and just see what happens.
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i'm still half expecting them to forget to even cut it off

Xile · Sep 30, 2026 at 2:16 PM

@ChrisTurk So your saying you have thousands of dollars in easy batchs ready right now! I wanna sign up.

Antonina · Sep 30, 2026 at 2:19 PM

As i was working on a hit, i got a message that said " mturk is closed" and then some other text. When I refreshed, I was still able to accept hits. So yeah it looks like they're gonna shut things down randomly throughout the day etc.

thedorchannel · Sep 30, 2026 at 2:20 PM

NBadger said: ↑

i'm still half expecting them to forget to even cut it off
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Reporter: Mr. Bezos how do you feel about the mturk site still being up despite the notice saying it will close on Sept. 30th 2026?
Jeff Bezos: What the hell is Mturk?

ChrisTurk · Sep 30, 2026 at 2:26 PM

Antonina said: ↑

As i was working on a hit, i got a message that said " mturk is closed" and then some other text. When I refreshed, I was still able to accept hits. So yeah it looks like they're gonna shut things down randomly throughout the day etc.
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Hey Alexa, is MTurk open, or closed?

gotta give it to 'em no one saw it coming. a true enigma to the very end

AlexZ · Sep 30, 2026 at 2:26 PM

Kathleen! said: ↑

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NBadger · Sep 30, 2026 at 2:28 PM

thedorchannel said: ↑

Reporter: Mr. Bezos how do you feel about the mturk site still being up despite the notice saying it will close on Sept. 30th 2026?
Jeff Bezos: What the hell is Mturk?
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TIMESTAMP__MONTH_DAY_YEAR: 10/01/2046

Xile · Sep 30, 2026 at 2:32 PM

Submitted a hit, told me MTurk is closed, tried again, and it failed to connect, tried a third time, and it went through. They have officially begun executing the hamsters.

angel · Sep 30, 2026 at 2:34 PM

ChrisTurk said: ↑

I am so incredibly loathe to do this, I don't think I have ever actually pre-announced a thing instead of just handing it to folks in the thread it gets publicized in, but I recognize a lot of people will probably drop in today/tomorrow and never come back if I don't, so:

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I built the platform I always wished I was actually working on. Its done, but it is not publicly live yet.. I don't have a compelling reason to move it to live right now, so building against nothing is nice. As-is, though:

Workers
Have basically the whole suite up and running, plus a bunch of niceties that without MTurk don't really exist anymore (a fully functional queue, for instance).

You can accept work, submit/return/report it (the form should even look familiar! lol):

You don't need third party scripts or extensions to have a functional platform either. In fact, I have some cool things cooked up that are (IMO) massive QOL wins for folks, fire off conversations mid-task and you don't lose a single typed character in your task. Enjoying working on a project? Your queue will keep itself filled as long as work is available to you, no "pandas" or PREs to stress about.

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Payouts go out through Stripe so you can withdraw to pretty much any bank/whatever you've got going on out there.

Downside, CT?

It is 2026, you have to verify your identity (through Stripe, I don't want your selfies). There is no workarounds for this y'all lol.

Requesters
Fund through Stripe, setup qualifications, publish projects/tasks, manage everything from an API or the web portal. Sign into the worker portal directly to preview your tasks and make sure they work correctly exactly how workers will see them. You can even keep the exact &turkSubmitTo URL parameter attached to your ExternalURL forms and the platform will catch it for you (assuming you set it up to MTurk's specs).

Fully featured Teams, multiple members, API keys to manage everything, and Teams own most resources:

Projects/tasks

Qualifications

Allow multiple members / tiers

Customizable naming

View attachment 40180

The obvious question: fee structure?

At base 25%, I really wanted to match MTurk's 20% but with Stripe as the payout rail its just too expensive in most scenarios, but I can evaluate individual scenarios pretty easily if a requester is interested. Vast majority of any costs are when workers actually withdraw money, so if everyone is only withdrawing $5 repeatedly it gets super expensive, if projects are running frequently enough that most withdrawals sit at $10 or more its so much easier to work with a requester on.

If you're a requester with no great options still / you're in contact with one still debating their options:

If you have any interest in this, please DM me directly or toss me an email (chris @aboundly.ai). I'll get folks set up with an account on the testing portal and I'll walk through it to see if it'd actually work for what you need. I really built this to fit what folks were losing with MTurk, and a lot that went into it came from looking at who was still using the platform so I'm happy to work out targeted asks honestly. Finding and helping workers is sort of on the homepage of this place so I am going to self-brag and say that's not a problem either.

That said I'm enjoying building this so I haven't actually gone and pitched any actual requesters. I'd really appreciate recs/connections if anyone here is still in a work/qual group and their requester is still without a great settled/natural replacement. I've looked and nothing really looks ideal (or its 2x the cost) but maybe I missed something / have the rose tints on.

I also recognize a lot of requesters have put up their own platforms & trust me I have respect for it because this is a lot of work. Honestly a little surprised how many scaffolded them up... Buuuut for me the thing that always made MTurk something I came to every day was at least partially the variety. It gave some insurance that if Requester ABC wasn't around when I was, well, at least there was a good shot Requester XYZ would be. I've signed up for some of these places and its just a closed browser tab away from the void.

Can workers get in?
I do not want anyone to sign up and sit around with no work, and I don't have much to sell here, I'm only putting this in the daily thread (probably today/tomorrow) so workers who might be interested don't miss it thinking MTurk is DOA and the forum is going to go with it (its not, regardless of this platform launching or staying a personal pet project).

But if you're a worker and you want to hang around "just in case" yeah you sure can check it out. Honestly please do, DM me or just @ me in any thread & I'll give you access to the tester forum.

This is something I've always wanted to do. You can go lookup the domain, I've owned it since 2020 which is far back enough to when a fair few "ai chat bots" were still Turkers saying "beep boop" at their desks lol.

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It may never hit the public, even as-is the forum gets a few hundred folks/mo passing through which would be great for a handful of requesters who just needed steady, engaged workers to handle their stuff, but you can check https://aboundly.ai occasionally if you want to and see if it ever makes it out of its baby shell.

Ok back to your popcorn waiting for the implosion.
This was such an awkward thread to write I regret ever starting this project lmao. "Hey guys, look at this super cool thing I'm not going to actually release despite this long winded thread" - sick job, CT.
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Should have known you had something up your sleeve for when mTurk finally imploded

ChrisTurk · Sep 30, 2026 at 2:35 PM

angel said: ↑

Should have known you had something up your sleeve for when mTurk finally imploded
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AlexZ · Sep 30, 2026 at 2:37 PM

ChrisTurk said: ↑

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Came back one day before they announced it too. Even more suspicious now, ngl

Pronewbi3 · Sep 30, 2026 at 2:40 PM

I got the message too

replicat · Sep 30, 2026 at 2:40 PM

Can I also get an invite please

angel · Sep 30, 2026 at 2:42 PM

AlexZ said: ↑

Came back one day before they announced it too. Even more suspicious now, ngl
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Yax Jasbon · Sep 30, 2026 at 2:43 PM

Pronewbi3 said: ↑

I got the message too

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When I got that message, the hit did not actually submit, it is still in my q, so I guess they shut it down.

Xile · Sep 30, 2026 at 2:44 PM

Yax Jasbon said: ↑

When I got that message, the hit did not actually submit, it is still in my q, so I guess they shut it down.
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Keep trying to submit it. It will go through. Probably.

Pacis Amans · Sep 30, 2026 at 2:46 PM

ChrisTurk said: ↑

I am so incredibly loathe to do this, I don't think I have ever actually pre-announced a thing instead of just handing it to folks in the thread it gets publicized in, but I recognize a lot of people will probably drop in today/tomorrow and never come back if I don't, so:

View attachment 40181

I built the platform I always wished I was actually working on. Its done, but it is not publicly live yet.. I don't have a compelling reason to move it to live right now, so building against nothing is nice. As-is, though:

Workers
Have basically the whole suite up and running, plus a bunch of niceties that without MTurk don't really exist anymore (a fully functional queue, for instance).

You can accept work, submit/return/report it (the form should even look familiar! lol):

You don't need third party scripts or extensions to have a functional platform either. In fact, I have some cool things cooked up that are (IMO) massive QOL wins for folks, fire off conversations mid-task and you don't lose a single typed character in your task. Enjoying working on a project? Your queue will keep itself filled as long as work is available to you, no "pandas" or PREs to stress about.

View attachment 40183

Payouts go out through Stripe so you can withdraw to pretty much any bank/whatever you've got going on out there.

Downside, CT?

It is 2026, you have to verify your identity (through Stripe, I don't want your selfies). There is no workarounds for this y'all lol.

Requesters
Fund through Stripe, setup qualifications, publish projects/tasks, manage everything from an API or the web portal. Sign into the worker portal directly to preview your tasks and make sure they work correctly exactly how workers will see them. You can even keep the exact &turkSubmitTo URL parameter attached to your ExternalURL forms and the platform will catch it for you (assuming you set it up to MTurk's specs).

Fully featured Teams, multiple members, API keys to manage everything, and Teams own most resources:

Projects/tasks

Qualifications

Allow multiple members / tiers

Customizable naming

View attachment 40180

The obvious question: fee structure?

At base 25%, I really wanted to match MTurk's 20% but with Stripe as the payout rail its just too expensive in most scenarios, but I can evaluate individual scenarios pretty easily if a requester is interested. Vast majority of any costs are when workers actually withdraw money, so if everyone is only withdrawing $5 repeatedly it gets super expensive, if projects are running frequently enough that most withdrawals sit at $10 or more its so much easier to work with a requester on.

If you're a requester with no great options still / you're in contact with one still debating their options:

If you have any interest in this, please DM me directly or toss me an email (chris @aboundly.ai). I'll get folks set up with an account on the testing portal and I'll walk through it to see if it'd actually work for what you need. I really built this to fit what folks were losing with MTurk, and a lot that went into it came from looking at who was still using the platform so I'm happy to work out targeted asks honestly. Finding and helping workers is sort of on the homepage of this place so I am going to self-brag and say that's not a problem either.

That said I'm enjoying building this so I haven't actually gone and pitched any actual requesters. I'd really appreciate recs/connections if anyone here is still in a work/qual group and their requester is still without a great settled/natural replacement. I've looked and nothing really looks ideal (or its 2x the cost) but maybe I missed something / have the rose tints on.

I also recognize a lot of requesters have put up their own platforms & trust me I have respect for it because this is a lot of work. Honestly a little surprised how many scaffolded them up... Buuuut for me the thing that always made MTurk something I came to every day was at least partially the variety. It gave some insurance that if Requester ABC wasn't around when I was, well, at least there was a good shot Requester XYZ would be. I've signed up for some of these places and its just a closed browser tab away from the void.

Can workers get in?
I do not want anyone to sign up and sit around with no work, and I don't have much to sell here, I'm only putting this in the daily thread (probably today/tomorrow) so workers who might be interested don't miss it thinking MTurk is DOA and the forum is going to go with it (its not, regardless of this platform launching or staying a personal pet project).

But if you're a worker and you want to hang around "just in case" yeah you sure can check it out. Honestly please do, DM me or just @ me in any thread & I'll give you access to the tester forum.

This is something I've always wanted to do. You can go lookup the domain, I've owned it since 2020 which is far back enough to when a fair few "ai chat bots" were still Turkers saying "beep boop" at their desks lol.

View attachment 40182

It may never hit the public, even as-is the forum gets a few hundred folks/mo passing through which would be great for a handful of requesters who just needed steady, engaged workers to handle their stuff, but you can check https://aboundly.ai occasionally if you want to and see if it ever makes it out of its baby shell.

Ok back to your popcorn waiting for the implosion.
This was such an awkward thread to write I regret ever starting this project lmao. "Hey guys, look at this super cool thing I'm not going to actually release despite this long winded thread" - sick job, CT.
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@ChrisTurk Invitation to check it out? Yes, please!

Tripsa · Sep 30, 2026 at 2:49 PM

FAKE HIT • SATIRE • NOT ACCEPTABLE Generated joke ID: SATIRE-MUOGMFIU-TOCV1
Title: Determine Whether The Exact Moment This Batch Disappears While Pretending This Is Worth It
Requester: Your Favorite Block List Entry [FAKE-REQUESTER]
TV: [Hrly=$69,420.00] [Pay=Trust Me Bro] [Approval=After MTurk Closes] [Comm=Unrated Since 2012] [Rej=Probably] [Blk=Also Probably]
Reward: $8,675,309.00
Duration: 6 months
Available: 1,000,000
Description: Read a novel of instructions, complete the task, then discover the batch vanished.
Qualifications: Masters Exists; Common Sense DoesNotExist; HIT approval rate GreaterThan 100

This HIT is completely fake. There is intentionally no Preview or Accept link.
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