Recently a site called acobay asked if I’d take a look at their service. They take the work out of testing bugs on your site, spotting spelling errors, and usability testing. There’s two options when you land on the homepage, and I think most readers would probably fit both categories; client, and tester.
As a client, there’s a few obvious benefits:
- start test projects at any time;
- get immediate results;
- pay only for valid bugs.
As a tester, the big bonus is that you can work at home (what we’re all about) and get paid to browse sites, and put them through the ringer. If you’d like to register as either a client or tester, you can do so here.
Once in a while someone will email the contact form here letting me know of a spelling mistake or broken link, and for that I am grateful, but I’m always left with a feeling that there must be more out there. Turning loose some human testers on your site is a cost effective way to scrub for bugs, spelling errors, and usability issues.
The phenomenon of “crowd-sourcing” has been steadily gaining traction over the past few years. I’ve used Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and found it to have a host of benefits. Whether it’s matching a clothing item to a particular category, or voting on how appealing a color scheme is, it’s comforting to know there’s some tasks out there that humans are still better than computers at. 
The next time I’m doing web testing I’ll use acobay. Looks like they’ve already been doing some discovery work on microsoft.com. Knowing Microsoft products I don’t see an end to their bug hunting any time soon!
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