09/30 - Well, Where is it? Wednesday

Mtwerkingit · Sep 30, 2026 at 4:45 PM

Isn't it sad that there is always that little bit of hope that something would happen and Mturk wouldn't shut down? Even if you know its wishful thinking lol.

catnapped · Sep 30, 2026 at 4:46 PM

They already pulled the plug.

Everett · Sep 30, 2026 at 4:47 PM

@ChrisTurk I'd like an invite, please! I've been working on mturk for a decade and a half now and... my god, has it really been a decade and a half?

alk69 · Sep 30, 2026 at 4:52 PM

Everett said: ↑

@ChrisTurk I'd like an invite, please! I've been working on mturk for a decade and a half now and... my god, has it really been a decade and a half?
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That and some more. And this chair is still just as uncomfortable.

xionbunny · Sep 30, 2026 at 4:54 PM

They patched the bypass work can no longer be accepted. So long and thanks for all the fish.

ObsidianSage · Sep 30, 2026 at 4:58 PM

there was a FISH in the percolator

Xile · Sep 30, 2026 at 4:58 PM

doggie728 · Sep 30, 2026 at 5:03 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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I would love an invite please, thank you so much.

jrw254 · Sep 30, 2026 at 5:04 PM

xionbunny · Sep 30, 2026 at 5:08 PM

It's typical of Amazon to not even give us all a thank you message for all the years of work. Evil.

catnapped · Sep 30, 2026 at 5:10 PM

xionbunny said: ↑

It's typical of Amazon to not even give us all a thank you message for all the years of work. Evil.
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They'll wait until midnight then put up "SIGN UP FOR PRIME--SPECIAL DISCOUNT FOR AMAZON MECHANICAL TURK $5 OFF!!!!"

leftfield · Sep 30, 2026 at 5:11 PM

Abscheulich · Sep 30, 2026 at 5:13 PM

Tomorrow they're going to say an intern pressed the wrong button and its not closing and they just now noticed the close in 30 day button was pressed

Everett · Sep 30, 2026 at 5:14 PM

So this is how it ends for me- constantly refreshing until it expires to try to get that one last hit in.

Abscheulich · Sep 30, 2026 at 5:15 PM

it won't even let me do a James Billings. Now I'll never know what that guy was paying 5 cents for all these years

mamasheebs · Sep 30, 2026 at 5:16 PM

@ChrisTurk Could I have an invite please?

xionbunny · Sep 30, 2026 at 5:16 PM

Abscheulich said: ↑

it won't even let me do a James Billings. Now I'll never know what that guy was paying 5 cents for all these years
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Crappy survey data, it was like watching paint dry.

RosieTheRobot · Sep 30, 2026 at 5:22 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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Hey Chris, this is very interesting! Please let me know if and when you want me to send requesters and/or workers. I'm not sure how many of my members who are requesters would still get notified if I tagged their channel, but I'd be willing to try for you. I'm planning to stay open, but I expect many to delete the app as soon as they need space on their phones.

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APFan · Sep 30, 2026 at 5:25 PM

I just threw in the towel. I'm done refreshing.
to mturk only. I'll never stop lurking on this board. Please send me an invite to the new site, Chris! Thank you all for the help over the years and for the sense of fellowship. I don't even remember how many different forums and boards I've been on with some of you, more than 15 years worth. It was always really nice to know someone else was there that would probably understand or already went through it, even if we were all just freaking out together about losing our accounts.

InfiniteChanges · Sep 30, 2026 at 5:25 PM

im not surprised amazon couldnt even shut down correctly.

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