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I like this idea. I personally think you are charging too little though. I know you want to make it affordable even for students but I feel that may only open i

by 20years 11y ago

I like this idea. I personally think you are charging too little though. I know you want to make it affordable even for students but I feel that may only open it up for lower level programmers who are okay with working for low rates. There is already a ton of help available online for low prices or free. I would like to see a service that focuses on instant help like this but with very experienced developers. I would have no problem paying over $60/hr or even a $100+ per hour for a guarantee that my problem will be solved. I would even fork out that kind of money for my employees to use a service like that. Something that I can deposit a certain amount of money per month into my employees account wallet which they can use towards live support issues and it only gets deducted if the problem was solved. I may not be the norm though so take what I say with a grain of salt ;)

andreash 11y ago
interesting. please email me at andreas@bugrex.com, as I would like to discuss that option with you.
- kevinwang 11y ago
  From a different perspective: As a student, I can confidently say that I do not think your prices are too low (from the demand side).
codyb 11y ago
I came here to say this as well. I could see enterprise uses for companies with smaller budgets who can't hire a full time senior engineer but might need or make good use of one's time for an hour. You could potentially even add scheduling, so Dev X could be scheduled for an hour every week with Client Y. There's a lot of neat paths you could take, and there's some decent theories about the science of choices and human decision making you could read up on if you're interested. Enjoyed the article, as someone with a near constantly full plate it's nice to read about a very substantial start in a bite sized time frame and makes me want to try to set aside a weekend as well.
- mrborgen 11y ago
  Interesting idea regarding scheduling. That would require a bit strickter rules for our experts though. As for now, one of the benefitd the experts like is that it's 100 percent flexible. You answer chats only when your'e interested. Would love to hear about those human decision theories, got links?

by 20years 11y ago

andreash 11y ago

interesting. please email me at andreas@bugrex.com, as I would like to discuss that option with you.

kevinwang 11y ago
From a different perspective: As a student, I can confidently say that I do not think your prices are too low (from the demand side).

codyb 11y ago

I came here to say this as well. I could see enterprise uses for companies with smaller budgets who can't hire a full time senior engineer but might need or make good use of one's time for an hour. You could potentially even add scheduling, so Dev X could be scheduled for an hour every week with Client Y. There's a lot of neat paths you could take, and there's some decent theories about the science of choices and human decision making you could read up on if you're interested. Enjoyed the article, as someone with a near constantly full plate it's nice to read about a very substantial start in a bite sized time frame and makes me want to try to set aside a weekend as well.

mrborgen 11y ago
Interesting idea regarding scheduling. That would require a bit strickter rules for our experts though. As for now, one of the benefitd the experts like is that it's 100 percent flexible. You answer chats only when your'e interested. Would love to hear about those human decision theories, got links?