· 4 min read
Poll vs survey: when one question is enough
How to tell whether you need a one-question poll or a longer survey, with a short decision list, real examples and the cases where you should use a survey instead.
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Notes from 50heads
On asking well, answering honestly and paying people fairly.
- · 5 min read
PickFu alternatives for fast consumer feedback: what to compare in 2026
Eight things to compare when choosing a fast-feedback tool: question types, audience, verification, speed, price, your own audience, API access and sharing results. Where 50heads fits, and where PickFu is the better fit.
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Mechanical Turk has closed. Where to move quick human judgments
Amazon Mechanical Turk closed at the end of September 2026. Here is how to move the one-question jobs to 50heads, what maps to what, and which jobs need a different tool.
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How we check each answer comes from a verified person
Phone integrity checks, one phone number per head, ID checks at Tier 2 and the checks that keep running afterwards. What we do, what we keep, and why we publish it.
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What heads earn, and why we publish it
Our pay rates, the share of every answer that goes to the head, how payouts work, and the honest line about what answering questions is and isn't.
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How to share a quick research result without building a deck
What a quick result needs to say, a reusable one-page template, and how to share it as a public page, a private link, a PDF report or an image from 50heads.
- · 3 min read
Audience targeting for a short question
How to choose the smallest set of targeting conditions that changes your decision, what each trait costs on 50heads, why over-targeting slows a question down, and how to save an audience to reuse.
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How an AI agent can ask verified people before it acts
How an AI assistant can use 50heads to ask verified people a short question, with the estimate first, a spend cap, a clear trigger for when to ask, and the guardrails that stop it asking too often.
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How to add a human feedback API to a product workflow
How to call the 50heads API from your code: estimate, ask, wait, act. With a working example and production guidance on idempotency keys, waiting, failure paths and when a human check is worth making.
- · 3 min read
What 50 answers can and cannot tell you
A plain guide to reading a result from 50 answers: what a narrow lead, a strong lead and a three-way split each mean, what 50 answers cannot show, and what to do next.
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Fast customer feedback in product discovery: six decisions worth testing
Six product discovery decisions that suit one short question, with the question shape for each and when not to use it: name, message, concept, visual, priority and first impression.
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Does paying people fairly improve research quality?
What the evidence says about pay and data quality, what it does not show, and exactly how 50heads splits what a requester pays between the head, verification and the platform.
