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I have this idea for a while. I even got the domain name experthours.com (since 2015) where I wanted ppl to find and talk to tech experts. Say u r looking for a

I have this idea for a while. I even got the domain name experthours.com (since 2015) where I wanted ppl to find and talk to tech experts. Say u r looking for an expert in kubernetes and want to hire them for a 3 hour consulting project . Later on may be expand to other fields. The challenge is how to ensure someone really is an expert. Barrier to entry needs to be high otherwise it will attract wannabes. But then how do u get enough experts ? Just never got to it :) May be I should. U wanna partner up ?

techsin101 5y ago
yea that would be great to bounce ideas off each other and figure out new things... we could talk over discord. I was thinking of manually filtering people and then having a point system. Also really hone on skills.. i.e. you can't be just a frontend developer, you have to be react expert, a sub-specialist. So you can select up to 3 stacks. i.e You are an expert in postgresql, bash scripting, aws RDS. Or Typescript and Reactjs, Or D3js and CSS. Like any given developer would know many things, we want only the thing you're MOST expert in. We could allow even smaller chunks of times for stuff like webpack, npm, composer, rack... errors. There are two sides right, experts and users. I think it'd be best to target b2b companies. As they can only pay and will pay to attract true experts. Otherwise, why would I pay out of pocket until I'm really desperate. Companies would pay to keep productivity up. I was thinking of targeting startups who don't have a budget to hire a top devs in many skills and their dev is wearing many hats. Usually they are struggling in space of Devops, DB admin, maze of AWS, or some weird library like mapping library that usual fullstack dev normally won't be good at.
techsin101 5y ago
I was thinking about potential customer segments that can be tested... 1. Startups (5-50) 2. Regular offices (excel, salesforce,...) 3. Bootcamps/Universities (kind of virtual tutoring. hired by institutions, not students, they wouldn't pay enough) 4. General Open Market of Everything Expert (would be hard to get started...) 5. Scientist looking for coding help (probly wont have money like students...)

techsin101 5y ago

yea that would be great to bounce ideas off each other and figure out new things... we could talk over discord. I was thinking of manually filtering people and then having a point system. Also really hone on skills.. i.e. you can't be just a frontend developer, you have to be react expert, a sub-specialist. So you can select up to 3 stacks. i.e You are an expert in postgresql, bash scripting, aws RDS. Or Typescript and Reactjs, Or D3js and CSS. Like any given developer would know many things, we want only the thing you're MOST expert in. We could allow even smaller chunks of times for stuff like webpack, npm, composer, rack... errors. There are two sides right, experts and users. I think it'd be best to target b2b companies. As they can only pay and will pay to attract true experts. Otherwise, why would I pay out of pocket until I'm really desperate. Companies would pay to keep productivity up. I was thinking of targeting startups who don't have a budget to hire a top devs in many skills and their dev is wearing many hats. Usually they are struggling in space of Devops, DB admin, maze of AWS, or some weird library like mapping library that usual fullstack dev normally won't be good at.

techsin101 5y ago

I was thinking about potential customer segments that can be tested... 1. Startups (5-50) 2. Regular offices (excel, salesforce,...) 3. Bootcamps/Universities (kind of virtual tutoring. hired by institutions, not students, they wouldn't pay enough) 4. General Open Market of Everything Expert (would be hard to get started...) 5. Scientist looking for coding help (probly wont have money like students...)