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Hey, author of the article here. Let me know if you have any comments.

• swframe 11y ago
  What an odd coincidence? I had a similar idea yesterday. Except, I think your solution should be more general; A site that lets anyone pay to talk to an expert on any topic. The user should post their question and the experts compete to be selected; it is important that only the experts that care about the question are selected. Kind of like uber for conversations. I don't think it should be a TaskRabbit clone. The experts only provide information; they don't do the work. For example, I want to talk to someone about selecting an alibaba manufacturer for a specific niche. I also want to talk to someone about how to get products into retails stores. And so on. There are many related services. For example, you can have translators connect people. I think there is also a need for translators for people with poorly formed ideas; the translators would communicate with the experts who don't want to deal with those people directly.
  • mrborgen 11y ago
    Great input! However, it's quite hard to get that kind of product off the ground. Easier to start with a niche and work our way out to broader subjects. We actually started with ReactHelp.com, then went wider to HTML,CSS and JS. And now, we have Ruby, Python & Java experts as well, so it's going in the direction of more subjects.
  • karjaluoto 11y ago
    We’re working on something like this: http://www.officehours.io http://www.officehours.io