[primitivesuave]

There's really not that much information about the service, which will immediately deter users who want to know if this is a tool worth exploring before investing the time to explore it. The [last YC startup class](http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec07/) is a great resource for improving this.

Also, in this age of hackers and god particles, you really should use SSL for apps like this.

[jfaucett]

my thoughts exactly. My UX:

first thought - looks nice, ok so, I clicked on "I can help", which is just signup, ok well I want to know what I'm signing up for, do I earn money helping others, is it a time donation thing? so then I clicked on "about" which tells me nothing, then I just went away.

I think the idea is interesting and with some more details I would have probably signed up. Also the "You believe in best practices." was kind of odd to me. I dunno if anyone else thinks this way though, but I don't believe in best practices, I do believe you should know the best practices for your field and understand them, so you know when to apply them and when not to.

[TheOtherHobbes]

There are lots of small weirdnesses scattered around a website which doesn't really have much detail.

It's a good idea - I was thinking open code review would be a super useful thing for many people - but a demo of how it works in practice would be worth a thousand XP points.

I'd be deeply reassured if there was explicit support for the Hacker School Social Rules.

[ab_thomas]

Yep, we need to explain it more. No money's involved, we're not keen on reputation like SO. What would be worth helping for?

[ab_thomas]

Yep, we need to explain it more. What do you mean "explicit support for the Hacker School Social Rule"?

[ab_thomas]

Thanks. We'll take a look at the class and SSL is on our list!