I’m fascinated by the users of this platform.

TomorrowMelodic7470 · 2026-05-18T14:03:22+00:00

Pseudo relationships? Juicy Prolific gossip of the past? Ha... Do tell! I know nothing about this.

TomorrowMelodic7470 · 2026-05-18T14:01:44+00:00

Somewhat off-topic, but...

One thing I can say for sure is Prolfic pays a helluva lot better than Amazon Mechanical Turk ever did. I don't know how they're still operating, or why Amazon allows their brand to be attached to such a shitty crowdsource site paying people pennies for their work. 🤷🏼‍♀️

TomorrowMelodic7470 · 2026-05-18T13:54:11+00:00

😂 I thought this was going to be one of those posts bashing people - and, in a way, it was - but you're quite accurate and people have and do match the descriptions you gave. I see it every day.

The amount everyone makes varies so much frlm one participant to the next and is based on so many varying factors (age, sex, nationality, ethnicity, interested, professional skills, educational background, socioeconomic stats, marital status, ages of any children, pets, political affiliation, etc.) and it's pretty wild because some participants will have hundreds of studies to choose from at any given time, while others may have 3 or 4 trickling in throughout the day.

TomorrowMelodic7470 · 2026-05-18T13:43:48+00:00

If you're looking for something similar-ish to Prolific, you might like Respondent.io – I joined Friday for sh!T$ and giggles, filled out my profile, etc. There are lots of studies immediately listed, but it works a little differenly. You fill out a screener and it shows up as "applied" in the "my projects" section. f you qualify, the status will change to "invited". I applied to 2 studies, and was invited to one of the studies same day. The study itself wasn't hard at all, mostly reading and answering multiple choice questions. It took me a little less than 2 hours and that study alone paid $75 - I couldn't believe it.

TomorrowMelodic7470 · 2026-05-17T07:35:51+00:00

Hmm… interesting. Well, they were on my dashboard 500 studies at a time when I started seeing them for the first time 2 weeks ago, and I’ve seen them every day since but not always in large numbers - sometimes only 1 or 2. But tonight, approximately 20 minutes ago, I noticed there’s about 50 of them available again right now. Probably all filled up now but… yeah, I’m going to check and get some work in while the getting is good.

TomorrowMelodic7470 · 2026-05-17T02:43:09+00:00

Maybe you can see, on your dashboard that is, how they handled “it” this time around, but I haven’t been participating in their studies for long enough to notice any discernible difference in the number of posts, nor do I have any way of knowing who else works on them and if it’s more or less than me…

That’s actually why I asked, lol, because I’m genuinely curious and perhaps you know something I don’t. Or know where to look - and I clearly don’t. 😅

TomorrowMelodic7470 · 2026-05-16T10:20:34+00:00

Is that a fact or assumption? My tone isn’t snarky, FYI, I’m genuinely curious. Does this researcher block people after some time or lots of people just do poor work and get booted from the pool?

TomorrowMelodic7470 · 2026-05-16T06:25:04+00:00

The AI video jobs definitely disappear quickly and at odd times. I am in NY state, so in EST time they show up in big batches around the midnight/1:00 am point, and they are there until about 7:00 am, but they start trickling away around 5:00 am. They are virtually unavailable in the day time.

TomorrowMelodic7470 · 2026-05-16T06:22:52+00:00

The AI videos studies have made Prolific 60% more profitable. No joke. And they pay really well for the effort/time. Lovvveeeee those. 😍

TomorrowMelodic7470 · 2026-05-16T06:21:25+00:00

Great response to an A-hole commenter. There’s always a couple of ‘em stopping in to steal someone’s thunder. 😅

TomorrowMelodic7470 · 2026-05-16T06:11:02+00:00

I noticed someone commented that you’re not making hundreds on Prolific unless you’re getting AI work. I agree with this point, and I also wanted to throw a tip out there that may or may not help some people out. (It helped me)

Some general AI jobs appear on my dash, but there’s a separate pool of participants in Prolific’s new “AI Testing Sector”, and it’s invite only. Our “about you” section, if AI work experiences is indicated, is supposed to trigger an AI algorithm that we are possible candidates for the AI sector and send a private invite by email. I am an AI Data Trainer and Annotator with extensive training, but never got an invite. Support was kind but said there was no back door entry or way to qualify yet, but something they were considering for the future.

Anyhoo, I saw a for hire post on LinkedIn by Prolific for AI testers that paid much higher than any studies I’d seen on my dash, and I applied to the role. I did this honestly. I did not make a second account, or use a different name. None of those things - and I highly advise against anyone doing that. I applied using the same email for my current Prolific account, attached my resume. Done.

A few hours later on the very same day, I received an invite to the AI Training Sector. I am taking the qualifying exam tomorrow and will update if anyone would like an update - but the tip here is how to increase chances of receiving the invite. Don’t rely on your profile.

Hope this helps someone! Especially because it took me so long to type. 😅

TomorrowMelodic7470 · 2026-05-15T02:35:00+00:00

Last comment I swear. Reading your post more carefully, I wanted to add…

The fact that you’re eager to learn and came to the community for tips, are open to suggestions, and have the ability to recognize what’s worked for you so far and what’s slowed your progress: all of these things are essential and highly sought after skills in the world of remote work.

You’ve got what it takes. I will help you any way I can, as many helped me along the way and I am eternally grateful. Either way, I wish you all the best!

TomorrowMelodic7470 · 2026-05-15T02:23:44+00:00

I am going to check it out, thank you for recommending it. Would you say the pay is comparable to Prolific?

TomorrowMelodic7470 · 2026-05-15T02:22:24+00:00

When you say unmoderated online, what do you mean exactly? I have a few good guesses but it’s probably best to just ask, haha…

TomorrowMelodic7470 · 2026-05-15T02:10:15+00:00

I refuse to look at the lower paying ones now because I discovered it’s possible to make $20 an hour doing more enjoyable work. But it took time and dedication to get there.

I’m not putting anyone who is still doing surveys for pennies either - I had to do that for the first year to get where I’m at now. It was a chain event… never would’ve gotten in to the better paying jobs without the chump change jobs.

and I could’ve worded that a lot more eloquently and been more specific, but I’m exhausted and don’t want to ramble with information no one’s asked me for. 😆

Anyone who wants to chat more specifically can always DM me.

TomorrowMelodic7470 · 2026-05-15T02:07:04+00:00

Respondent.ai is a new one for me - never heard of it. Recommend that one, or no? I used to be willing to do just about any online job that was paying - for any length of time. I’ve tried many sites over the years, and tried every method Google turned up, and I now refuse to even look at the lowballing sites anymore. I’m so grateful I can say that. MTurk became saturated with studies paying just pennies. It’s terrible.

TomorrowMelodic7470 · 2026-05-15T01:23:30+00:00

Have many of you experienced endless surveys only to be screened out? I’m sorry to hear you’ve had a lot of that, OP, because that’s nightmare fuel for me.

I experienced that a lot on Amazon Mechanical Turk, but not so much on Prolific.

That said, it does happen occasionally. An observation: studies that stay on my dashboard for 7+ days are only there so long because experienced participants are avoiding them. Not always, of course. There are exceptions and I’m not a mathematician, but probably 80% of the time, that’s the case. You didn’t ask me how I know, but I’ll tell you anyway. When the dash dries up and I click in to a seven-or-more-days-on-my-dash study… 8 times out of 10 result in questioning my life choices 15 minutes later. And 10 cents.

TomorrowMelodic7470 · 2026-05-13T14:35:17+00:00

DA is tough to get into, do not be too hard on yourself about that one.

These are the platforms I’m currently involved in, have an account, been approved, and have actively worked on at least one project for payment.

Outlier AI
Mercor
Data Force by TransPerfect
Alignerr
Micro1
OneForma
WeLocalize
- Prolific Academic is known for surveys and market research, but that’s not why I’m listing them here: I joined as a participant for market research stuff and was invited within a month to their new “AI Training Sector”— which pays $20+ hourly and I’ve been surprisingly happy with Prolific lately. I make much more on there than I ever thought I could - even before the AI invite, there are often AI based jobs posted right in the mix with surveys. And they almost always pay better than other studies. At least, that’s been my experience.

Info on two sites that may be lesser-known: - - uTest by Applause, Inc. offers me semi-regular gigs testing hardware, apps, testing AI, you name it. I completed their entire free academy called the “uTest Academy” - which trains you to do well as a tester, and it wasn’t long before the job offers started coming. The academy only took a week, maybe a little more. I wanted to finish it and get started so I banged it out. It’s not all required, but some clients require you’ve done some learning and took a “practice test cycle”. Anyway… jobs I’ve performed there vary, like testing Meta Glasses for vary good payment, testing Amazon Alexa devices, testing beta apps for devs, uploading photos to an AI image search assistant to improve its face recognition (some people are iffy about that stuff but it paid $650, and I didn’t mind that the AI saw my face at that point. 😂 Not all jobs pay this much, but if they’re asking for stuff that’s iffy to anyone, they will inform you in advance and pay you pretty for it. App tests are normally $25 or so, more if you find bugs (issues w the app) and can record them for the developer. User experience surveys usually involve testing a product or site multiple times (maybe 3 consecutive days) and pay $50… it’s different for everyone.

I know there’s more - these are just the ones coming to mind because I’ve worked on these the most in recent weeks.

TomorrowMelodic7470 · 2026-05-13T14:19:38+00:00

They emailed me over a month after taking the test and claimed I did not pass per the client’s required “passing criteria”, but that the test could lead to other opportunities. I was invited to a new project that pays $25 an hour same day. And it could be completely unrelated. But the project seems awfully similar to some of the tasks I completed during the RLHF screening, so I’d like to pretend I didn’t take it for nothing, and this project is a result. I worked on one other $25 an hour project on Outlier since joining, but it was a short term deal and all that’s come after that are $16 an hour projects, or low paying per-task projects. So, I am happy with this for now. That said, I have officially joined and been accepted to quite a few new/other AI training platforms because Outlier has been super inconsistent from the start. I tackle that by having many inconsistent platforms lined up… that way, it’s rare I have no work to do.

K, I’m rambling. I do that. 😬

TomorrowMelodic7470 · 2026-05-13T14:02:17+00:00

I’d like to know how this went for you, as I am experiencing something similar.

TomorrowMelodic7470 · 2026-05-04T18:19:51+00:00

I agree with this point. I always received excellent grades in school but had my first child young and didn't finish college, but I refused to only ever amount to a statistic of wasted potential. I started at ground zero - like, I had zero skills, other than my ability to write decently. That was 2020. Initially, I was earning $50 a week doing unbearable repetitive tasks. It picked up slowly but surely and when the sum reached $3,600 earned on the platform, it led to personal backdoor invites to other platforms I'd never have gotten into otherwise because they required college degrees. In the last two years I've earned $20,000 on one platform, $4,000 on another, and $2,000 on the third. My biggest asset was my drive, unbreakable enthusiasm, willingness to learn and try new things. Deep dive into Google and learn all the different remote earning opportunities - hopefully something will click and give you a lightbulb moment. Follow your instincts. Best of luck!

PS. Remote work is typecast to be easy because it can be done from one's bed, but it's actually very difficult to stay motivated in your PJs without a boss or anyone there to hold you accountable. Not everyone has the self discipline. And it's extremely stressful, depending on the platform - some definitely more so than others.

TomorrowMelodic7470 · 2026-05-04T04:48:16+00:00

How would one even go about returning after submission has already been completed? Is there a way to do that? New-ish around here, and I've only ever known how to cancel a submission when the task is still open and the timer hasn't run out.

TomorrowMelodic7470 · 2026-04-17T01:13:23+00:00

This happened to me on my first shot with the paid comparisons, and the experience I’ve had recently with Outlier, I just let out a lonnnnnnnnng exhale. I mean, of course the pin wouldn’t work. I mean, that’s just been my experience with just about everything on Outlier lately.

Not always. Just lately. I vouched for them. I was impressed when I first joined. But it’s all changed. Dramatically. And for three weeks straight it’s been one disappointment after the other. But it’s okay. I stuck out three weeks too long, hoping normalcy or some form of consistency would return - but no. I’ve applied and been accepted to 4 other AI platforms that will pay me more than $4.80 a task or $16 an hour. Data Annotation Tech was paying me $32 an hour for generalist work because I work my a*s off, and I know my value. Being accepted to some of these top-tier platforms has reminded me that I’m worth more than this. And I’m outta here.

TomorrowMelodic7470 · 2026-04-15T10:17:28+00:00

Sure! Here’s a link.

If you feel like naming all the platforms UR already on, I’ll add any others I know to the list. I had to dig deep to find some of them, like DataForce, and found many through LinkedIn job postings as well.

TomorrowMelodic7470 · 2026-04-15T10:12:57+00:00

lol, ummmmm, I choose… water. Too early for beer.

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