That's a great question. It is not making anybody rich, but I cover my costs and make a few hundred extra a month. I think on the order of $500+ MRR.
Besides buying credits there is also a pro membership where people choose which demographics rank them (age, location, gender), can have more tests, larger test sizes and always be at the front of the queue for ranking.
Hi! Sorry for the late response, went to bed and forgot about this post. Thanks :)
We check to make certain people aren't ranking formulaically, and if they are we invalidate their votes and ban them automatically. We also check how close people's rankings are to the consensus retroactively and do some fancy anti cheating patterns there as well.
RankPic (https://www.rankpic.info) is an app to help users crowdsource their best photo. I've been building over the past 3 years & it's grown into a lovely community of people who help each other pick their best pictures for dating apps, professional photos etc.
I've seen some pretty fun novel use cases, such as (multiple!) people using it to pick out glasses, wedding invites & so on.
I recently completed a leaderboard function that cross compares photos from different tests using Claude, which was really impressive and scared me for my day job..
RankPic (https://www.rankpic.info) is an app to help users crowdsource their best photo.
I've been building over the past 3 years. It's grown into a lovely community of people who help each other pick their best pictures for dating apps, professional photos etc.
I founded a startup based on this idea. Track purchases with credit cards and sum things up on a monthly basis. Unfortunately couldn't find a grocer to take me up on it mid pandemic, but I want to try it again in a few years if no one has made it work yet.
Thanks for asking! The community is about 15,000 users, maybe 100-300 DAU, tests complete in as little as 10 hours for 20 ranks or up to a couple days if you have a lot of niche filters set for your rankers (age, sex, location).
The best ROI I have found is on Apple and Android app stores. I tried Facebook, Tiktok & others and have found them very expensive with little return (though I admit I'm not marketing expert).
As for Photofeeler.. I actually created this app because I found the way it rated me 1-10 fairly harmful to my mental health. RankPic has users rank your photos best to worst, so it's just against yourself. Additionally you can get more mileage out of each test as you can upload up to 6 photos at a time.
I got all my friends to go on it and spent lots of time ranking people myself.
I also started things off with "fake" tests so that people had other people to rank at the beginning, otherwise folks would just see a dead app and drop off.
It was a really big moment 9 months in when someone's test completed entirely without me ranking. It was a lot of work & I'm really glad to be at a point now where I get to watch people rank each other without me.
I used fiverr to make assets, and then either use fiverr to make a design that I can easily build with one of the website building tools (wix, etc.) or I try to build it myself.
The easiest way is to find a landing page you think looks good and use it as inspiration with your own colors, assets, etc.
No offense taken, I also have many qualms about the role looks and photos play in our society. The destruction & gamification of social interaction by tech is a genuine harm.
Unfortunately it's what we're dealing with right now, and people need feedback to be able to play the game.
Thanks for asking! I also used photofeeler and found the way it rated me 1-10 fairly harmful to my mental health. RankPic has users rank your photos best to worst, so it's just against yourself.
Additionally it allows users to get more mileage out of each test, when you can do 2-6 photos instead of just one at a time.
Anecdotally I've also heard it is a more fun experience for the rankers.
I've been building over the past 3 years & just recently monetized and crossed the $500/m mark through a Pro subscription. It's grown into a lovely community of people who help each other pick their best pictures for dating apps, professional photos etc.
I've seen some pretty fun novel use cases, such as (multiple!) people using it to pick out glasses, wedding invites & so on
That's a great question. It is not making anybody rich, but I cover my costs and make a few hundred extra a month. I think on the order of $500+ MRR.
Besides buying credits there is also a pro membership where people choose which demographics rank them (age, location, gender), can have more tests, larger test sizes and always be at the front of the queue for ranking.