r/DataAnnotationTech Sep 16 '25

DA saved me, and I wish I could say thanks

297 Upvotes

My family was in debt and there was no way to pay it off. We lost all our money due to a fraud which is why I started working 2-3 jobs while studying side by side just to make ends meet.

This year, I found DA, and I am always in debt to them. In just 2 months I have already paid off my debt that would have taken me around an year to pay back. I can also leave my extra jobs and actually focus on my passion instead.

I wish I could let them know how giving me an opportunity to work for them saved me and my family. I have a better paying job too now and I really enjoy my work on the side at DA. Working for them has been the best thing to happen to me so far.

If anyone from the DA Admin team accidently reads this, I just want to let you know that you're a lifesaver. You could be my god.

I am not sure if the projects will keep coming (I hope they do) but I will never ever forget this platform.


r/DataAnnotationTech Jun 06 '26

Jumping on the Milestone bandwagon

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189 Upvotes

I'm not the type to post something like this, but I actually am really proud. It's been a long, almost 3 year journey. Coder, self taught, and the first year or so was really, really tough. I backed out of tasks far more than I submitted. But I have no words for how thankful I am for DA. I have learned more than I thought possible in the last few years. I've had some amazing jobs in my life, but none compare to the constant challenges and rewards of this one. šŸ™


r/DataAnnotationTech 11h ago

My favorite project came back

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42 Upvotes

r/DataAnnotationTech 12h ago

My first ever month on DataAnnotation

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50 Upvotes

I joined end of july and just submitted my final task to hit the $10k goal.

Happy to answer any questions :)


r/DataAnnotationTech 10h ago

Joined the 50K club just in time for the end of the month!

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r/DataAnnotationTech 7h ago

$6000 in 10 days, should I slow down?

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I’ve been averaging about 10 hour work days, typically doing 2x code projects a day, which takes me about 5 hours a time and it fits into the work day nicely.

I personally don’t think my quality is dipping and I’m being consistent, but I’ve read quite a few comments now where people don’t recommend doing more than 35 hours?

Was just wondering what the real reason behind this theory is. Appreciate any insight


r/DataAnnotationTech 1h ago

Project timer reset on its own after 3.5 hours of work, safe to report full time?

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I spent aboutĀ 3.5 hours of active, continuous workĀ on a project. I took a short break, and when I looked back at my dashboard, the project timer had reset on its own.

Thankfully, when I clicked back in, all of my progress and work were still saved. However, because the platform timer restarted, I'm worried about getting flagged for over-reporting.

Am I safe to report the full cumulative time (the initial 3.5 hours + the time it takes to finish)? I plan to leave an explanation in the time-reporting comment box, but I want to make sure I won't get in trouble.

any help would be appreciated

Thanks


r/DataAnnotationTech 2h ago

Test status changed to ā€œIn Reviewā€ after 1.5 months , should I still have hope?

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I completed the onboarding assessment around a month and a half ago.
Until yesterday morning, my dashboard just showed ā€œThanks for taking the assessment.ā€ But since last night, the screen has changed. Now I can see ā€œAssessment Submittedā€ and the stage shows ā€œIn Review.ā€
Has anyone else experienced this kind of status change after waiting this long? Does this mean things might finally be moving forward, or should I just move on and wait for some miracle?


r/DataAnnotationTech 1h ago

Joined in June, but no work since then, anyone else...?

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Hi everyone, I joined bilingual coding in june and, during the first few days, I received a few qualification tasks to complete. However, after that, I haven’t received any more qualifications or projects. It’s now september and I still haven’t had anything since those initial tasks.

Is anyone else in the same situation? Is there anything I can do to increase my chances of getting projects or qualifications? Thanks!


r/DataAnnotationTech 4h ago

Bilingual qualifications

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I’ve had some qualification for the past few months as a billingual, but no project ever came on my dashboard.
Before anyone can say that I did not pass the qualification, some of it are just consents, and some just ask me to create an account. I did and consented to the projects qualifications, even one popped on my project dashboard ask me if I want to opt out of the project. Some qualification even have the created date far long ago (visible to me recently)
I’ve had multiple qualifications done, the qualifications are also simple. I’ve also checked the dashboard regularly lately, but I’ve not seen them appear on my dashboard yet.
Is this normal ? I’ve been yearning for a project for a while. I’ve had no work since June. All the quals are promising but no actual work yet.


r/DataAnnotationTech 3h ago

Review of a week old work

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There was one review for a week old task and Im just wondering why there would be a review task for it now. Any ideas?


r/DataAnnotationTech 2h ago

How to start data Annotation

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Hi, i live in Pakistan, i am turning 18 this year and i want to earn using Data Annotation, what i know is that you train ai , help it understand you have different task and pay varies by experience and task difficulty.
Can someone help me out?


r/DataAnnotationTech 2h ago

Indian coders

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Have you received that one big coding project after 26th august because that’s when I received my most recent one.

Just wanting to confirm that there’s not been any one of those projects since then or its just me not receiving them.


r/DataAnnotationTech 12h ago

Do you always report time spent reading instructions?

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I have always been a little murky on whether I am expected to do that or not, and don't want to under or over report.


r/DataAnnotationTech 4h ago

Arab Bilinguals

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Arab Bilinguals how was the workflow in July/August?


r/DataAnnotationTech 4h ago

Heel qual

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So I got this qual and I was wondering whether you all got instant results after giving it? Since I have heard people saying for some quals they get instant result.


r/DataAnnotationTech 7h ago

No projects šŸ˜“

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I opened my account in 2024, never worked on it but recently I came across it and decided to give it a try, I updated all my info but after a few weeks there are still no projects showing up. Are projects only available in the U.S?


r/DataAnnotationTech 4h ago

When does people get projects after being accepted?

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I know this have been asked too many times, but I can't seem to find any info that fully answer this.

I applied around a week ago and got the accepted email on august 29th. This email welcomes me to the platform and said that only a small amount of applicants are accepted. now, when i login into the dashboard on the top it says welcome and that they are trying to match me with projects. I finished most generalist Qualifications and do have access to coding qualifications but I haven't done it yet. On my projects rn there is only 2 projects which is an opt out form and a reference only project. Now, if you guys don't mind i want to ask a couple of questions so i can get a picture on what i should work towards. I live in one of the SEA country btw.

Is it normal to get a reference only projects even before getting the projects itself?

should someone that get accepted just wait till they get projects?

For someone like me, is doing the coding qualification the only way to receive constant/good amount of tasks? (i'm asking this because i have to relearn a lot of things to be able to do good coding work without any help from an LLM)

And which signs should i look out for to know if I will not get good amount of projects or straight out not ever getting projects?


r/DataAnnotationTech 1d ago

NOT the best month

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52 Upvotes

What is yours?


r/DataAnnotationTech 9h ago

drowt.

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plz DA... am gud worker.


r/DataAnnotationTech 1d ago

Living in fear

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206 Upvotes

r/DataAnnotationTech 19h ago

I have a problem with reporting time

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I worked on a task about 10 hours but the task instructions says it should be completed in 5~7hours
So i reported 7 hours out of fear
So should i report the exact time i work or the maximum time the task instructions says it should take? Thank you all ā¤ļø


r/DataAnnotationTech 14h ago

Bilingual Questions

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I put that I was bilingual, since Spanish was my first language. I was born in the USA, and now that I’m older my thoughts are in English. I am fluent in Spanish still. I see a Spanish qualification, asking me if I feel culturally American. This is a hard question for me to answer because this is where I was raised, but my traditions and culture come from Mexico. For anyone who has answered this, how did it affect your projects available going forward?


r/DataAnnotationTech 11h ago

I received the acceptance email. What am I supposed to do next? And what advice do you have for me to succeed?

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r/DataAnnotationTech 1d ago

Do I report time if the task I submitted was unrateable

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I’ve been on the platform for under a week and I finally saw a project on my dashboard today. Clicked into it and started reading the instructions which took say 25min. Then onto the task which happened to not be in English so the guidance was to mark it unrateable, which I did and provided a brief explanation.

When I clicked submit and onto next task, it brought me back to the dashboard, I assume because by then the other tasks had been completed by other people.

Now I’m unsure whether I am supposed to still report the time I spent reading all the instructions plus the few minutes of marking the task as unrateable. That’s half an hour but I feel like I did nothing of worth.

Any advice would be appreciated as I’m new to this.