I got tired of looking for clients, so I started looking somewhere else.
Not because I don't want clients anymore. I still do.
But there are days you spend hours looking through job posts, checking Upwork, sending applications, and trying to figure...
This was probably the one that got me interested in the first place.
I like that some of the work isn't just sitting there, clicking yes or no.
You can get tasks where you're looking at an AI response and deciding whether the answer is actually goo...
Outlier AI: Train the Next Generation of AI as a Freelancer
I came across OneForma while searching for other platforms in the same space.
There seems to be quite a lot going on there.
Translation, transcription, data annotation, search evaluation, AI evaluation, and some other projects.
I haven't looked at...
OneForma
DataForce is another one that caught my attention because the work isn't always the same.
Some projects involve collecting data.
Some involve annotation.
Some involve recording your voice or participating in a study.
So you could literally be sit...
DataForce
I found Neevo while looking at the whole AI data collection thing.
And some of the tasks are very simple.
You might record sentences.
You might work with text.
You might evaluate something.
You might be asked to participate in a particular data ...
Neevo
I've heard about Appen for a long time, but while doing this research, I found that the contributor side is now called CrowdGen.
There are different kinds of projects there too, from search evaluation and transcription to annotation and language-rel...
CrowdGen by Appen - Where expert contributors shape ...
Why I'm trying these
The main reason is simple.
I want another option.
Finding clients can work, but I don't want every dollar I make from writing to depend on convincing another person to hire me.
If I can find work where I qualify for a project...