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Also the price. $5 is expensive to ask a question. But $5 is cheap to pay an expert plumber for 10 minutes of time.

• DigitalSea 12y ago
  Very true. I could warrant spending $5 for 10 minutes of a plumbers time to save hundreds on a DIY job, I can see the value in something like that. When you think of it that way, it actually makes a whole lot more sense, but I feel like it goes outside of the realm of what most people would describe a Q&A platform, it was more akin to a consultancy application. Getting a plumber to offer up their time for such a small amount of cash? That will be the difficult part. Getting anyone who's primary occupation does not involving working at a desk like an electrician, mechanic, plumber or carpenter to use this service for pennies will be very difficult. I know a plumber and he runs his own business here in Australia, I think his hourly rate is about $85 an hour. If you take his hourly rate and break it down to a per 10 minute cost that is about $14 (rounded down). Presumably of this $5, Fountain will take a cut and the result might be somewhere around the $3 to $4 mark that an answerer will actually get. If something like this does work, I will without-a-doubt use it and in turn, try and make some money on the side answering programming related questions and helping people stuck on coding related problems.