The curse of small scale is that prepping work for outsourcing is usually more work than doing it yourself because there’s not enough sufficiently profitable instances to amortize outsourcing setup costs
But it’s too much to do alone, so you just don’t do most things worth doing
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MTurk is changing that a little though (for Turkable things). Learn how to use it once and the outsourcing threshold goes way down.
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