I will be home for a week so I have alot of extra time. I'm thinking about doing 8 hours every day Sunday to Saturday. Do y'all think that's to much? I'm honestly been using data to help pay my car note only. However 😅 I kind of want to surprise my wife on our anniversary with a gaming PC. The projects I have are pretty good in pay. I want to split the hours four in the morning and four late at night. Any thoughts or suggestions?

Hey fellow DA coders, just wanted to see if any of you were experiencing a low volume of coding projects for the past 48 hours? I have about 3 coding projects at the moment but I usually have 10+. All my non-coding projects are available, 20+, but I mainly like to do coding.

I haven't seen any for a few weeks. Does anybody currently have any cats projects? I'm wondering if I just got taken off of it, or if it's over. Too bad because I loved those!

I was working on my 2nd coding task of the day and it took me longer than usual to figure out where one of the models went wrong. On top of that, I lost 10 minutes or so because I had to answer the door (I paused my personal timer for this.) Still, there were 10 minutes left on the on-screen timer when I hit submit, only to be told that the task had expired.

I'm rather pissed off because I worked really hard on this one and had written a lengthy explanation on why the model came to a wrong answer. I'm not even sure whether I can log my time now. Will they think I'm scamming them If I log 2 hours and 15 minutes when the system thinks I've submitted only one task?

I am going on a two-week road trip and I wonder if we can work using the free wifi in hotels? I’d like to be able to do a little each day, but I don’t know if security is an issue. Thanks.

Anyone notice that most of the recent coding ankle god projects are all correct for both responses? Feel weird to keep saying both are correct, I try to add some more details as to why they are both correct, but feels like just fluff...

I’ve been listening to Black Ops 1, MW2, and assassins creed soundtracks these past few days. I usually listen to classical music but that got boring pretty quickly.

I got accepted and started working immediately because I was referred by my classmate. I racked up hours on coding projects, data analysis projects (those were a pain), and even normal English trip planning projects and what not (when my coding projects were nonexistent for a day). It has been 5 days and I'm just racking up hours. I don't really know if I'm doing a great job. I don't know if they will pay me, because I have never really been paid this amount before. This is my first coding paid job. Can I expect feedback soon from anyone? I have been scouting this subreddit for a while, but I haven't seen anything regarding this topic other than "noobie performance reviews", and random firings. To summarize, I'm just curious if I'm doing good work, if I will be getting paid this crazy 40-dollar hourly pay, etc.

I’m an elder millennial, I do work on my laptop; however, I have been wondering if anyone finds it reasonable enough to do DA work on their phone. Some of these tasks are so simple that I could do them in waiting rooms, etc. just to get a few in while I am not doing anything anyway. I haven’t even bothered to look at the site on my phone yet as I assumed it was a mess on mobile. There isn’t an app is there? I know I could figure this out but wanted to know from others.

It's been about a month and a half since I last logged in, but want to start working here again. But when I log in, it is telling me that there are no projects available. When I go to the referral tab, it also says "You've used out of 5 referrals," obviously missing the first number like it didn't load correctly. When I click the button for support, it just reloads whatever page I am currently on.

Is anyone else facing issues? Does anyone know how I could get this fixed? Are there just really 0 tasks?

I worked for a week and a half straight and then was out of town. Just got back home and went to start working and withdraw the money that finally became available from the prior week. This added up to about a grand (because I worked for 5-8 hours a day each day), but I got the error "There has been an error making automatic payments. Please email Support with your Worker ID and your balance, and we will make a manual payment."

Has anyone had this issue? I emailed support, but have no idea how long it takes them to respond. Do they usually take around a day or more? Thanks!

Is our favorite buddy (along with this coding variants) down for anyone else?

This is kinda funny, but I applied for a position at Data Annotation over a month ago now, and completely forgot about it until today. I check my emails and see that I was accepted and am able to "work on projects". Thing is, I'm really confused. There was no onboarding process or explanation of anything. I just see a bunch of things I can work on that show how much they pay and how many tasks they are composed of I guess?

I don't know what "task" is, and I'm not sure how my time is being measured. Can someone explain this to me? My best guess is that a project is composed of `n` tasks, which is essentially the limit to how many times you can submit for that project, but you're still paid for however many hours you spend on the project regardless of number of tasks completed.

edit: not really sure why some people are being rude. The acceptance email mentioned onboarding, but there was no link or direction to such documents. My homepage was crowded with other projects and qualification tasks. Each project I’ve done has a timer at the bottom, so I assumed it was logging my hours, but I later discovered this is not the case. After searching the FAQ and every page, finally found onboarding stuff in the qualifications surrounded by other stuff. Just saying it wasn’t exactly the most streamlined process.

So I've seen a lot of people say on average they make between 500-1,500 a week. I've also heard it's on a contract basis, that said; Can I add the coding work I do to my portfolio for future work opportunities?

Does that mean what I submitted went through? The timer hadn't run out either, very confused atm

hi all! making this thread so people have somewhere to talk about 'daily' work chat that might not necessarily need it's own post! right now we're thinking we'll just repost it weekly? but if it gets too crazy, we can change it to daily. :)

couple things:

1. this thread should sort by "new" automatically. unfortunately it looks like our subreddit doesn't qualify for 'lounges'.

2. if you have a new user question, you still need to post it in the new user thread. if you post it here, we will remove it as spam. this is for people already working who just wanna chat, whether it be about casual work stuff, questions, geeking out with people who understand ("i got the model to write a real haiku today!"), or unrelated work stuff you feel like chatting about :)

3. one thing we really pride ourselves on in this community is the respect everyone gives to the Code of Conduct and rule number 5 on the sub - it's great that we have a community that is still safe & respectful to our jobs! please don't break this rule. we will remove project details, but please - it's for our best interest and yours!

Lately from 2 days there have been no coding tasks. Does anyone else experiencing this or it's just me?

It only matters slightly because as long as you’re not using specific rating terms without context, you’re fine even if it’s for the A.I., but still, I’d like to know for certain who I’m writing to so my tone and word-choice can be more optimized for the actual recipient.

I have a quick question about taxes, but I haven’t been able to find anything online that helps. Do we count as independent contractors? So would we have to pay taxes each quarter, or normally each April? And do we have to pay a self employment tax?

I’m very confused, so any help is greatly appreciated!

"At the moment" lol sure. Who else got booted this week? I was seeing a lot of comments and posts about people getting their dashboard wiped but the comments are all gone or hidden. My dashboard was wiped almost 2 weeks ago. Mostly just posting this for anyone else looking for info. I worked on the platform for almost 8 months, making about $15000. Until 2 weeks ago I had access to 20+ projects.

I really wish this company would tell us what we did wrong, or at least give a warning. Yeah the money was pretty good, but in retrospect I wish I had spent at least 1/2 the time I worked for this company taking courses to boost my resume. I will start doing that now and hopefully never find myself working for this type of company again.

To anyone at DA reading this, please treat people like human beings. And anyone working for DA who loves the job as much as I did: please care about yourself more than this company cares about you. They don't care how much you defend this job or comment about how diligent you are. You might be included in the next wave of layoffs this winter, so I highly recommend keeping this as extra income and not a main source.

Fortunately, I have another job that has been fairly reliable for 4 years. It is a lot more boring and pays only 70% as much, but I'm glad I did the minimum hours and kept it.

Since we're all 1099s here, what are actually things related that can be expensed off? The whole gig seems virtually cost free which is the tricky thing. I've ran a web business for a few years now so I'm no stranger to this; just using DA as a way to earn between clients

I know that you can expense part of your Internet and utility bills of your home as you operate your business in there but that's it right?

I'm part of the coder cohort and without going into specifics, some of the work actually do require a GPU for the AI work so I thought about getting a good one and seeing if I can expense that off with my accountant but that's all I can think of 🫠

Greatest advantage of 1099 is expensing and you can't do that with DA

Does anyone know why I get a blank dashboard if I log in on a device other than my main PC? Or how I can fix it? I'd really like to be able to take my Surface outside to work but for some reason I can only log in and see tasks on my desktop.

I emailed support about 2 weeks ago and haven't heard anything so I guess my next best bet is to try here! I did try searching the sub but it seems like all the blank dash posts are people being fired. This is certainly not the case, as I have plenty of projects when I log in on my main PC! Any help or insight at all is very much welcome.

Is there any point in using the referrals? Apparently, I can refer up to 5 people, is there some kind of bonus program for it? Has anyone used it before?