Several requesters have chosen to migrate their jobs off of Mturk onto their own sites. The end result in some cases is a niche mechanical task site that isn't open to other requesters -- not yet, anyway. One of them, Crowdsource, has stated its intentions to be open to other requesters. The Stanford Crowd Research Group is also developing a new mechanical task site. This leaves open the potential for disruption of the current model by new concepts, so it's worth a quick review of some known niche sites, and forthcoming sites.
Stanford Crowd Research
Stanford is using a crowsourced research team to develop dramatic improvements and changes over AMT. The wiki-style website lists current and upcoming milestones, meetings, and videos of past meetings. There isn't a certain release date for the final product.
Crowdsource
Crowdsource does the bulk of its business for clients who need articles. Qualifications and tasks are to be posted on Crowdource's WorkStation as a result of the AMT fee increases. As niches go, it's slightly broad: there are plenty of SEO-related tasks, and other tasks, that don't require a qualification. In a sense, Crowdsource's roots are best described as being a requester for other requesters -- a re-requester, perhaps. The 2016 model is to serve as a more traditional platform where requesters may post tasks directly.
Sticky Crowd
Sticky Crowd has also chosen to migrate its jobs to its own website, Sticky. Sticky specializes in a very narrow niche category: workers watch a requester's video, while a calibrated webcam tracks eye movement. This is a potentially disruptive model, in that it works towards the concept of getting direct feedback without problematic survey questions.
UserTesting
Mturkers may remember website user-testing tasks posted in the past by a company called TryMyUI. These days, UserTesting is a more current website for such tasks. It is a niche mechanical task site that doles out requesters' site-testing tasks to its workers.
As new sites and niches begin to grow, expect discussion and details to be released on this website. As the mechanical workplace model evolves, so does the model for empowering the workers and requesters who fuel the websites.
Stanford is using a crowsourced research team to develop dramatic improvements and changes over AMT. The wiki-style website lists current and upcoming milestones, meetings, and videos of past meetings. There isn't a certain release date for the final product.
Crowdsource
Crowdsource does the bulk of its business for clients who need articles. Qualifications and tasks are to be posted on Crowdource's WorkStation as a result of the AMT fee increases. As niches go, it's slightly broad: there are plenty of SEO-related tasks, and other tasks, that don't require a qualification. In a sense, Crowdsource's roots are best described as being a requester for other requesters -- a re-requester, perhaps. The 2016 model is to serve as a more traditional platform where requesters may post tasks directly.
Sticky Crowd
Sticky Crowd has also chosen to migrate its jobs to its own website, Sticky. Sticky specializes in a very narrow niche category: workers watch a requester's video, while a calibrated webcam tracks eye movement. This is a potentially disruptive model, in that it works towards the concept of getting direct feedback without problematic survey questions.
UserTesting
Mturkers may remember website user-testing tasks posted in the past by a company called TryMyUI. These days, UserTesting is a more current website for such tasks. It is a niche mechanical task site that doles out requesters' site-testing tasks to its workers.
As new sites and niches begin to grow, expect discussion and details to be released on this website. As the mechanical workplace model evolves, so does the model for empowering the workers and requesters who fuel the websites.