Sure thing.

While the service is in beta, anyone can try a maximum of 100 tasks for free for any of the products built on MobileWorks: form digitization, web scraping, or tasks that new app developers build on the API. The idea is to get developers started working with crowd as easily as possible.

We'll announce the formal pricing for form digitization and scraping products soon.

For community-built applications, prices are set depending on the complexity of the task and how long it takes workers to do them. We time the first few workers to do a task to see how long it takes, then return a price based on that.

"While the service is in beta, anyone can try a maximum of 100 tasks for free for any of the products built on MobileWorks: form digitization, web scraping, or tasks that new app developers build on the API. The idea is to get developers started working with crowd as easily as possible."

Wait, I don't understand. If I build an application on the API am I limited to 100 hours for now? If so, that severely disincentivizes me to build on the platform.

"For community-built applications, prices are set depending on the complexity of the task and how long it takes workers to do them."

And that price is WHAT during the beta period? I would really like to build an application. If I make an application and sell it to other people, what is the price? Am I limited to 100 jobs?

Congratulations, Anand! Didn't know you were in this yc batch.

Thanks! Looking forward to having the research community start using our crowd and giving us their thoughts.

Bonuses: no task starvation, no spammers, a usable API, and highly motivated workers.

Let me also add that you probably know my co-founders Prayag, Philipp, and Dave from their days at Cal. MobileWorks spun out of Berkeley's Department of CS and School of Information, and was built in response to the pain we all felt as they struggled to get good results out of crowds.