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For now we support categorization, transcription, and phone calls (which are each pretty broad categories and can be used for a wide variety of tasks). You can see our docs here: http://docs.scaleapi.com/

We're intentionally releasing endpoint by endpoint in a way that we can ensure our members can perform the tasks efficiently while also providing a ton of flexibility to the developer. Our end goal, of course, is to allow developers to do basically anything.

MTurk has a huge quality problem (around 40% is spam) due to being crowdsourced, and it has a pretty high barrier to entry to get something working well. We hire our own members who we screen for quality for particular tasks, meaning they're fast and high quality. Our API is also much simpler than MTurk's, and we do most of the heavy lifting for you.

There are also lots of types of tasks that MTurk basically can't solve for you (for example, calling a business), that we're working on building high quality solutions to.

Hi HN! We're really excited to share Scale with all of you. Our goal is to make it really easy for startups to integrate human tasks and BPO into their companies. Give us a try (your first 10 requests are free)! And contact us if you think you might have a use case we don't cover yet.

If there's any information that's extremely sensitive, we'd work with you to find a good way to anonymize it to the workers. Other than that, we don't need to store your files so you could completely control the content. :)

This type of thing makes me proud to be at MIT :)