Ask HN: Review My Site - Studylance.com

[slance]

www.studylance.com

It would be good to hear back any feedback on my site, studylance.com. Students can ask questions and tutors respond with answers, the students see a preview until they pay the tutor.<p>Any comments are appreciated. Im sure someone will ask if its cheating, its not, Im more interested in usability and general feedback rather than comments on the overall concept.<p>Many thanks!

[pedalpete]

I really like the well designed site. Well laid out and easy to use.

However, your paid model feels a lot like ExpertSexchange.com, a much loathed site, and it seems you are dealing in very small dollar amounts which means that managing the cost/payment process creates increased overhead and adds complexity to the system where it may not be needed, and the dollar amounts may not be high enough to be worth the extra headaches. (if an answer was worth $10-20 I'd be singing a different tune).

There may be other revenue opportunities outside of advertising (though you're in the right market for lots of advertisers).

[slance]

I understand the comparison with expertsexchange but I think Studylance is different. Expertexchange is all about spamming the search engines with common problems, Studylance is more like Elance or Rentacoder, in that individuals get a real response, rather than having to pay for the answer to a previously asked question,

The amounts are in £pounds for the moment, I'm going to add the option to view in USDollars soon.

The values are low for the moment you're right!

[ujjwalg]

Neat concept.

[slance]

Thanks!