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by mcrittenden 5244 days ago
Ah, interesting idea. My initial reaction is that once people had the request fulfilled, they wouldn't usually be willing to pull out their credit card to find out how it was done (no matter how cheap it is), but I'd love to be wrong. You think there'd be some interest in that feature?

Also, what are your thoughts on keeping it simple and just charging $1 (or some other very small amount) per favor, and I take some percentage of that (20% or so), and the person who fulfills it gets the rest? Seems like that might be a good way to get a steady stream of people fulfilling favors since it's a way to make easy money, but again I worry that the "requesters" won't be willing to pay for such small things.

Thanks again.

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I agree with you that the one who will get the favor done wont be interested in buying the solution. It also depends of course on the favor...(i.e. reviewing code cant be done twice in a row since each problem is going to be different). However, the following people that have the same problem maybe will. Lets say the initial favor costs 1 USD and the solution 50 cent....then you might opt for the solution. Didnt Amazon have a small-task service? You might also check out mightybell.com for some inspiration on that...