To ask what Appen is?

[Mumtwo124]

I've just come accross the £10 a day thread and have seen lots of you sharing how much you've earned through the likes of Appen.

I'm just wondering what it actually is/involves? I'd like to earn a bit of money on the side so would be interested in doing this if it is legit and not tooo time consuming. Also, how do you apply/ do you have to meet any requirements to apply?

Thank you in advance :)

Appen is a crowdsourcing site. It offers micro tasks, and long term projects. You can end up doing anything from recording voice samples to develop Google/Alexa type products, evaluate how accurate search results are on Pinterest, it's really varied. That said, there can be a long wait to secure a project or task.

If you're interested I'd also look at Lionbridge and isoftstone, they offer similar work.

You'll need a CV for Appen (highly doubt they read it!) and that's pretty much it. Some projects occasionally require something like being within a certain age bracket, or living in a specific region, but you don't need anything special to work for them.

I hope that's helpful. Please hop onto the thread if you need any support, I know it can be a bit intimidating

Oh. And in terms of time, it depends. Some projects are an hour a day, others 25 hours a week, some are just as and when work comes in. So just don't apply for something that won't fit in with what you need it to.

@otterses brilliant thank you, will take a look at both and see if I can figure them out :)

@otterses - any experience with clickworker - I had a look at the jobs there and there seems to be a lot of "take 5 selfies per day" or do a survey but provide your twitter handle - which seems bizarre

Anyone else baffled by Appen? I signed up yesterday - two different passwords and logins so I had two emails in my inbox to verify for an Appen Platform Account and an Appen Contributor Portal Account. Today I try to login to see if any work and it tells me "there is no account registered on this website with the email address you entered".

I imagine that if I tried to re-register they may well tell me that that email is currently in use even while telling me they have no record of it. Ha ha. Shall I even dare or shall I believe the reviews and move on to another company?

How much could you expect to earn from a 20 hour a week project roughly? I[m a freelancer and it keeps popping up for me on LinkedIn but I can[t decide if it´s worth my while to go through all the faff of a payoneer account and so on.

Would you have to declare any income to HMRC? Just curious as I signed up ages ago and am getting their emails but never actually attempted anything. I’m currently employed through PAYE

If your income from Appen is under £1k per annum, you might be able to apply for traders exemption for tax purposes, but yes you should do a self-assessment.

I've worked for them, pay rate is low, work is mind-numbing, but I used it as a suppliment for freelancing when things were quiet to top up my income. Not really something reliable, but handy, easy, and fairly immediate payment.

When you say low, what are you talking about? How much would you earn for instance from a twenty hour a week project?

I cant honestly remember, but I think it was offically around £10 per hour. It was a few years ago tho. I did task based work, and 1h of work would take me around 80 mins, so headline rate didnt always match the actual.