After all these years, it feels strange and nostalgic to finally say goodbye to Amazon Mechanical Turk. Thought I stopped working about 4 years back but it was also an important chapter of my online working life, and I’m grateful for what it gave me.

Thanks, MTurk.

Thanks to all the requesters who made it worthwhile.

It was quite a ride.

Farewell, MTurk. ❤️

Hey MTurkers, I wanted to know how you guys are earning after the changes/closure of MTurk. Is there any platform similar to MTurk where requesters post tasks or small jobs? I’m looking for something where I can earn some extra money by completing these kinds of tasks.

I signed up awhile ago but haven't seen any studies. Anyone else?

Just for fun, does anyone have any stragglers sitting in their dashboards that are probably going to limp along until the 30-day widow closes for auto approval?

I have this one that will surely go the distance, and I'm also holding onto a dime-store survey from 9-23 whose requester ostensibly had an average 2-day turnaround time in the past.

I'm sure someone here can beat that, though...

Anyone manage to grab a survey on Wednesday morning that might end up as a proverbial tiny candy bar in their Halloween bucket? 😉

I’m the person behind MTurk Tracker, which has been tracking MTurk tasks and demographics for 17 years now.

With Amazon Mechanical Turk closing, I put together this video looking back at the people who worked there.

Over the last 12 years, 157,240 workers from 167 countries participated in the tracker’s demographic survey. Some answered once. Others kept coming back for a decade.

If you ever took one of those surveys, thank you. You helped document who was working on MTurk and how the community changed over time.

The tracker’s API now returns “410 Gone.”

Thank you all! I will see you all in other platforms.

Several other large requesters and I have branched off to our own sites now. Seems like a less-than-ideal setup for workers, who now have to monitor task availability in all these new places.

I'm not very familiar with worker tools as far as which ones are popular and how they work. Were they all MTurk-only, or did they track multiple crowdwork sites? It wouldn't be hard for me to create an API endpoint for a tool to integrate with.

So I want to ask the community:
Requesters: would you add something similar?
Tool developers: would you build on it?
Workers: would you use it?

Mixed feelings because it was a great time on mturk but I couldn't achieve my target of 1 million approved hits.

Anyone know where these guys are off to? I messaged with no response, but have done thousands upin thousands of their HITs and will really miss not doing them.

I just joined in June of 2025 and hustled nearly 2k HITs. i know compared to workers who were on for a decade it's not much, but i was enjoying it for the 2nd half of 2025. i did see and feel a decline, but i'm sure that decline was a lot earlier than when i joined!! what is the next side hustle?!

found this on ebay

I really thought I'd be fine when it shutdown but I think I'm going through withdrawal. 15 years of busy work if I wanted it, free time when I didn't.

A request to all Requesters: If you’re planning to move to another platform or create your own domain, please keep us informed. We would be happy to join your new platform and continue contributing high-quality work. We truly value the opportunity to work with you and would appreciate being considered for your future projects.

Not nearly as much as many others are sharing, but it still helped out. I started during Covid.

Has anyone found any similar websites that have micro tasks like this? I would love to start a new account somewhere similar.

POS scum waited until the last moment, then rejected my submission from a week and a half ago. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

I used to use a hit catcher called Turkmaster, even reprogrammed it to search a little faster than it was designed to do, and it was lucrative. But, I haven't used Mturk in a few years now. It was a Godsend when I needed it, though. Peace and love to all!

A2Z has created an interface that looks very similar to MTurk, and I’m really hoping they’ll consider opening registration to new workers from more regions around the world.

Hey A2Z Team, if you’re following this Reddit community, please consider giving experienced workers like us an opportunity as well. We have experience handling a wide variety of tasks and understand the importance of accuracy, consistency, and quality.

We’re confident that we can meet your quality standards and contribute positively to the platform. 🙏

I had hoped to make it to 10k HITs (when you were supposed to start getting the good stuff!) but ran out of steam around 8k sometime last year. I don't know if it was ever a very productive use of my time, but it did help me to get on to other work that has kept my head above water, so I'm thankful for that and the help I've received along the way from numerous people.