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.
US-based crowdworkers who relied on Mechanical Turk for supplemental income
- 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
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.
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 Turk ↗Amazon's Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers - and not even AI can save it ↗
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 - SourceForge ↗Clickworker vs. Toloka AI Comparison - SourceForge ↗
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 ↗
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 Advancements ↗Amazon Shuts Mechanical Turk to New Customers on July 30, 2026 as AI... ↗
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 ↗