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Sidehustle Switchboard

A mobile companion that aggregates digital piecework across the post-MTurk landscape (Toloka, Remotasks, Clickworker, Prolific, UHRS, Appen), surfaces the highest-paying tasks matching your qualifications, and tracks your hourly wage across platforms in real time.

Target user

US-based crowdworkers who relied on Mechanical Turk for supplemental income

Features
  • Cross-platform wage dashboard that calculates your true hourly rate after screeners and rejections
  • Qualification passport that auto-shares your completed-task history and badges with new platforms so you don't start from zero
  • Daily digest showing which platform currently pays best for your skill set
  • Built-in AI coach that flags suspiciously low-paying batches and known scam requesters
Why now

Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk to new customers on July 30, 2026, pushing thousands of workers to scramble for alternatives at the same time; there is no consumer-facing aggregator that treats piecework like a job market.

Signals · overall 5/10
Demand
5/10

MTurk shutdown to new requesters on July 30, 2026 is confirmed (TechCrunch, The Register), but the r/mturk community is only ~87K subscribers and typical earnings are $2-6/hour — a small, price-sensitive market whose demand shift will be gradual as HITs dry up rather than immediate.Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical TurkAmazon's Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers - and not even AI can save it

Whitespace
7/10

Web searches for cross-platform piecework aggregators returned only B2B platform-comparison sites (SourceForge, Software Advice) for requesters; no consumer-facing worker aggregator like this exists.Clickworker vs. Toloka AI vs. Appen Comparison - SourceForgeClickworker vs. Toloka AI Comparison - SourceForge

Monetization
3/10

Target users earn $2-6/hour — one of the most price-sensitive segments online; existing MTurk tools (browser extensions, scripts, Reddit guides) are predominantly free, making paid conversion very hard.Amazon Mechanical Turk in 2025: Is It Still Worth Doing and What Hourly Rate Can You Expect?How Much Money Can You Make in 1 Hour on Amazon Mechanical Turk

Longevity
3/10

AI is the structural headwind — a 2023 analysis found 33-46% of MTurk workers already use LLMs, and best-ai.org frames the shutdown as driven by AI/synthetic data replacing microtasks; the entire piecework category is in long-term decline.Amazon Mechanical Turk to Cease New Customer Onboarding by July 2026 Amid AI AdvancementsAmazon Shuts Mechanical Turk to New Customers on July 30, 2026 as AI...

Feasibility
5/10

Each platform (Toloka, UHRS, Appen, Prolific, Clickworker) has different task structures, qualification gates and lacks public worker-side APIs — aggregation requires fragile scraping per platform and custom qualification matching.click worker or toloka for uhrs task? : r/UHRSwork

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk · 112 points · 35 commentsHacker News · 2026-07-06 (18d ago)