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I'm not sure what you mean by "wait for questions"... Yes, I would love to add that ability in the future. If I get a lot of re-usable submissions, that may h

I'm not sure what you mean by "wait for questions"... Yes, I would love to add that ability in the future. If I get a lot of re-usable submissions, that may happen sooner rather than later.

blhack 15y ago
I assume that Sakes means that right now, it appears as though a coder uses this site by fulfilling requests (questions). Currently, there are 3 requests that a coder could potentially fulfill. Sakes is asking if it is possible to offer services directly, without waiting for somebody to ask for them.
- blake8086 15y ago
  Oh! I hadn't even thought of that. So a coder says: "hey, I'm good at Python and..." I'm having trouble filling in the blank there. Would they solicit questions and then get exclusivity? Would they just generally advertise? I'm not really sure how that would work.
  - biot 15y ago
    Maybe someone just spent a week writing an ecommerce integration and would like to sell that script for $250 a pop to as many people as would like to buy it.
- irahul 15y ago
  blhack: I can't reply to your comment so am posting here. It would work like this: 1. You need to have a solution repository. 2. Developers post solutions there. For instance, find numbers less than n where the sum of divisors is greater than number but none of the divisor subset equals the number. And the solution is tagged with the implementation language. 3. Before posting a question, someone can look into the repository and get the solution from there if already there. What problem it solves: 1. Developers can post their solutions without someone asking for it. 2. Solution seekers will have a smaller turnaround time if the solution is already there in the repository.
  - blake8086 15y ago
    I feel like that leads me down the path of being Experts-Exchange, and I don't really want to go there.
TuaAmin13 15y ago
I got the impression Skakes was asking for posting scripts. "I have a Ruby script that converts X in to Y" "I have a Python script that lets people reset Active Directory and LDAP passwords" Skakes can then ask for however much money for those scripts.
- tonyskyday 15y ago
  This seems like it could be a really powerful idea, especially if the solutions were ranked well on Google. As a wannabe hacker, I often find myself searching for solutions to particular problems I need to solve within a larger JavaScript or Python or whatever script only to find some large project that I have to spend tons of time dissecting just to see how that one thing works. If I could spend $5 to save that time, I surely would. And, sometimes seeing the solution in another language could even help find an answer in the language I'm trying to use. Of course, depending on the language, there may be an active community on the web or IRC that can answer my question in real-time.
- blake8086 15y ago
  That's basically http://codecanyon.net/ http://codecanyon.net/ I have great respect for what the Envato guys have built, and think it would be extremely difficult to compete with them head-to-head.

I'm not sure what you mean by "wait for questions"... Yes, I would love to add that ability in the future. If I get a lot of re-usable submissions, that may happen sooner rather than later.

blhack 15y ago

I assume that Sakes means that right now, it appears as though a coder uses this site by fulfilling requests (questions). Currently, there are 3 requests that a coder could potentially fulfill. Sakes is asking if it is possible to offer services directly, without waiting for somebody to ask for them.

blake8086 15y ago
Oh! I hadn't even thought of that. So a coder says: "hey, I'm good at Python and..." I'm having trouble filling in the blank there. Would they solicit questions and then get exclusivity? Would they just generally advertise? I'm not really sure how that would work.
- biot 15y ago
  Maybe someone just spent a week writing an ecommerce integration and would like to sell that script for $250 a pop to as many people as would like to buy it.
irahul 15y ago
blhack: I can't reply to your comment so am posting here. It would work like this: 1. You need to have a solution repository. 2. Developers post solutions there. For instance, find numbers less than n where the sum of divisors is greater than number but none of the divisor subset equals the number. And the solution is tagged with the implementation language. 3. Before posting a question, someone can look into the repository and get the solution from there if already there. What problem it solves: 1. Developers can post their solutions without someone asking for it. 2. Solution seekers will have a smaller turnaround time if the solution is already there in the repository.
- blake8086 15y ago
  I feel like that leads me down the path of being Experts-Exchange, and I don't really want to go there.

TuaAmin13 15y ago

I got the impression Skakes was asking for posting scripts. "I have a Ruby script that converts X in to Y" "I have a Python script that lets people reset Active Directory and LDAP passwords" Skakes can then ask for however much money for those scripts.

tonyskyday 15y ago
This seems like it could be a really powerful idea, especially if the solutions were ranked well on Google. As a wannabe hacker, I often find myself searching for solutions to particular problems I need to solve within a larger JavaScript or Python or whatever script only to find some large project that I have to spend tons of time dissecting just to see how that one thing works. If I could spend $5 to save that time, I surely would. And, sometimes seeing the solution in another language could even help find an answer in the language I'm trying to use. Of course, depending on the language, there may be an active community on the web or IRC that can answer my question in real-time.
blake8086 15y ago
That's basically http://codecanyon.net/ http://codecanyon.net/ I have great respect for what the Envato guys have built, and think it would be extremely difficult to compete with them head-to-head.