> Turn a passive audience into engaged particpants. 2) Turn > your audience int your army.

That's marketing speak.

How about: "Let's say you want to build a website that shows the different rates for parking garages around San Francisco, but you don't have the pricing data. Human.io can help you get hoards of strangers to run around the city, snapping pictures of pricing signs at garages, and uploading the pictures to you. Viola, now you have the data."

Is that vaguely what human.io can do?

Had no idea what human.io did until I read this comment. Then I was "Oh, wow. That's a good idea."

Yes, exactly.

You could do all sorts of things. How do I wrap it up into one sentence without marketing speak?

I love pud's example. Come up with 2-3 more scenarios like those and put them on the home page.

Edit to add: "a Mechanical Turk for tasks not easily done at a computer" isn't a bad description either.

> Come up with 2-3 more scenarios like those and...

...ask users to vote on them using human.io

<3. Wish I could come up with a short term use case for human.io now :(

An army of real people ready to gather data, create new experiences, or anything else you can dream up -- at the press of a button.

This is a nice one.

Thanks. You're welcome to it or any part of it.

As a developer, I would love to see what the API looks like and some sample scripting:

  humans = init({ count:100, gender:male });

  task_navigate   = task({ type:navigate, uri:{latitude:123, longitude:456} });
  task_photograph = task({ type:photograph });

  for (human in humans) {
    human->task(task_navigate);
    human->task(task_photograph);
  }

I'd like to see what the actual API ends up looking like but then again I am not sure if you intend this to be fully scripted or not. Building a user-friendly API and then translating the instruction into user-friendly instructions for the humans who execute will be the primary challenge IMO.

http://human.io/docs perhaps?

How might you use human.io to answer that?

Unartificial intelligence automation for the masses