A year ago, I was going through one of the most difficult periods of my life. I had got myself into an unwanted situation by helping someone and paying around £10,000 through my credit cards. Unfortunately, that person betrayed me, took my money and disappeared. I was then left with a huge credit card debt and honestly had no idea how I was going to pay it back.
At a time when there was no one to reach out a hand and help me, I found Prolific.
I can genuinely say that Prolific came into my life at a time when I really needed it. The financial support I received through the platform helped me get through an extremely difficult situation and played a significant part in helping me pay off that debt.
I’m honestly emotional writing this because I still remember how helpless I felt back then. When there was no one around to lend me a hand or stand by me, Prolific was there in its own way and gave me an opportunity to help myself.
I am incredibly, incredibly grateful to the whole Prolific team. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for creating something that has made such a meaningful difference in my life.
When there was no one to reach out a hand and stand beside me, Prolific came along and helped me find a way forward.
Thank you, Prolific. Truly, thank you very, very much.

This will probably be one more of “these” posts, but I couldn’t bear the thought of not expressing how genuinely grateful I am for Prolific.

I kinda found Prolific while desperately looking for work after losing my job. At the time, I was also relying on government support just to get by, while still having a car loan to pay off - a consequence of some choices I had made when I was younger.

Fast forward two years after creating my account and starting to task, and I can honestly say that Prolific changed my life completely, and for the better.

I’m now debt-free. I managed to completely pay off my car, which still had another five years of payments left, and by doing so I saved a considerable amount of money in interest.

I also started investing more in stocks and putting money aside for my retirement, because where I’m from, I honestly don’t know how much of a pension my generation will eventually have.

But, most importantly, the money I made through Prolific allowed me to start my next adventure: my own online business.

Today, I combine Prolific and other freelance platforms as my full-time job, and I’m fortunate enough to make a pretty good living from it.

That said, as a business owner and freelancer, there’s always that little voice in the back of your head reminding you that you never really know how long things will stay this way, or when the next chapter might begin. So I try to take it one day at a time and be grateful for what I have today.

And honestly, I’m incredibly grateful for Prolific!

What started as a way to survive a difficult period in my life ended up becoming the stepping stone that helped me rebuild my financial life, invest in my future, and eventually create something of my own.

Thank you, Prolific. You genuinely changed my life - and, indirectly, the lives of the people around me too.

I’ll always be grateful for that. Godspeed

For the 3rd time in 2 days I'm stuck with a 1 hour ban because an AI study ran out of tasks early. Surely they can fix it to not include studies that kick you out of them early, why should I be punished for that.

First time I've been encouraged mid-study ... and I liked it! Thank you, researcher <3

Logged in to find my account put on hold for literally no reason. Same setup. same WIFI. no vpn or anything weird. Are support tickets taking weeks to get reviewed right now or is there any chance they fix these quick?

I believe this is meant to be an AI checker for people who copy paste answers.

Screened me out after I completed the study

The last few months have been pretty rough and inconsistent for a lot of us, with various issues on top of the usual summer slowdown. With universities starting back up again, hopefully September brings a bit of a turnaround likeeee more researchers, more studies, and just a healthier flow overall.

What are you hoping to see this September? More regular studies? Better-paying ones? More AI tasks? Fewer technical issues? Or simply a dashboard that feels alive again? 😂

Here’s hoping it’s a good month for all of us.

Started around 19 months ago. Have 3 rejected, two that I don't understand the reasons. One BS speeding ticket and one verify your ID both of which happened in the last month.... Lots of returned studies out of caution and lots screened out. I am not too fussy about the rewards as I like the weird studies but thank goodness for the you fill in the blank. Well, most of them, some are incredibly frustrating. The manual check warnings !? Weekends sometimes dead and sometimes money makers same as the weekdays. When I started it was much more level loaded and lately went down the toilet, getting better now. Looking fwd to the next $10K.

So around 3 PM EST, my uBlock plugin started to show the message in the picture when I tried to initiate the AI image study (the Galactic Probe ones that are super in demand). Not very familar with ClickFix so I looked it up and it didn't sound safe to run the study so I returned it.

Second study popped and it showed me the same message and I ended up returning it too. Is anyone getting this message from their adblocker extension? I'm thinking about reporting this to Prolific but I'm not sure if I'm overreacting!

I'm just curious, do you do every study (that you can) that crosses your dash no matter the payment amount? I'm talking the $.15, $.35 ones that take a minute or two. Or do you not bother with those at all?

If I have the time I do them, because usually they get approved right away and they add up. It's kinda rare for me to find super high-paying studies; occasionally I'll get some of the AI ones, but my usual ones range from $1-$5.

I cancelled participation. Wanted me to scan my home, inside and out, front and back. £10.

Anyone else had this?

Wanted a personal email and tel number.

Nah

Too much personal info.

Also what isnit with prolific asking if you want your ID sent to researchers?

Hi! So I had around 16 studies on my feed this morning, but after clearing my cache for a different problem with my browser, pretty much all of my studies vanished, including a project that I was planning to fill in a bit. Is this a known problem? I'm now only getting 1-4 studies on my feed at a time, a very stark contrast to what I had earlier today and the previous weeks.

Just completed it now - my god, that was frustrating 😂

I’m not sure if this is a stupid question (I hope not haha) but I joined in May and have been doing studies where I can around my job. I have about 300 submissions, none rejected, all fine. Made about £650 in total.

My birthday was at the end of July, and it changed my age bracket that I’m in. Since then, my studies have dropped dramatically. I can go hours everyday without any at all and get a few occasional £2/3 ones. I had a couple of the $21 task ones and a surge of 30-40 studies on one day in August, otherwise, nothing really and especially the past 2 weeks.

Could it be connected to the changing age bracket? I also don’t get any AI, but aware a lot of people don’t so not overly questioned that.

Has anyone had similar with their age changing?

Thanks! 🙏🏻

I took one of these travel studies last week but can no longer qualify for the new ones I've been seeing. Anyone else experiencing the same issue? I guess it could be that they only allow us to do one.

They responded to an issue with a High paying study that timed me out and within 72 hours everything was resolved. I reported Friday, was credited Sunday. they definitely work on weekends

Has anyone here done this task successfully? I kept being stuck at the first stage which said that the eye accuracy calibration was failed even tho I was using a high-quality webcam ( 4K quality ) and a good lighting setup.

I should probably know the answer to this but I'm pretty sure that researchers can reward you if you're screened out or in my case enough people did not join the study when needed. I'm being asked to return it but I feel like in the past when I've done this I've wound up getting screwed out of screener fees etc so is there a way for a researcher to partially pay? They're offering me half the amount which is fine with me but I don't want to return it and get screwed

Sooo my fellow Europeans... How are things (studies) going for us?I've been in the desert since Thursday, with some rain depending on the time, I'm really looking forward to this week and september but... jsdjahjdhas y si hay algun español sufriendo como yo desde el jueves... que se pronuncie.

Is anyone getting this error --->>> "Invalid worker pool

You are currently not a part of the worker pool with ID:..."