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I'm trying to understand how this platform would be different from a Stack Overflow. Do you mean a Twitch like platform?

• jka 6y ago
  Without wanting to prescribe solutions, I do think that elements reminiscent of StackOverflow, Twitch and GitHub could be relevant. As part of the developer experience, everyone hits design and implementation doubts or blockages from time to time. The key feature to provide would be an unobtrusive way for the developer to 'surface' from the obstacle -- perhaps including a link to the relevant lines of code, issue, or project -- and to raise that question with a community that subscribes to the relevant topic(s). Ideally people viewing and responding to that question could view and gather the project's context -- easy with open source projects, for example -- to help guide and improve their responses. So as not to give the impression I think this is a risk-free idea: I do think a platform like this could raise questions about the authorship and ownership of code. I believe it's reasonably well-accepted in startup culture that searching for snippets of code is OK, certainly with fair attribution; but is crowd-sourcing an answer based on your personal network value OK? (addendum: also, ethically - how would a platform like this fairly remunerate participants and ensure that they're well-informed (and retain control over?) the use of their contributions?)