[joshdavham]

Might honestly not be the worst idea!

People could put up basic profiles with their skills listed and you could purchase a time slot with them. It’d be relatively low commitment for both the experts and also the advice seekers.

Some technical problems might be verifying expertise but this could be handled with a sort of social proof like how LinkedIn allows users to vouch for certain skills. In fact you could probably facilitate account creation by pulling from the LinkedIn api.

But yeah, good luck if you build it!

[rm_-rf_slash]

I agree. I’d like to be able to share my knowledge from time to time for a small fee and little hassle on my part.

I made some money on Codementor for a time and enjoyed it while I was between jobs, but wasn’t easy to balance that with FTE so I dropped it after a while.

[ghaff]

Every now and then when I was working full-time, I had some piece work things that made me some reasonable pocket change. They were sometimes interesting (e.g. being a judge for a best-of award at a conference) and/or a way to fill a few dead hours and have an interesting chat. But if you have a good job, they're mostly a distraction for not that much money in the scheme of things.