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#42Simple request: filter by student / helper.
It's on our list : )
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#43"Stop wasting hours searching Stackoverflow..." Terrible choice for an opening phrase to your website. You are putting yourself in a position against SO which IMHO is one of the few websites that are actually really helpful for the community (definitely not a waste of time). My honest advice, don't get cocky... at least not so early.
That comes from months of research including customer discovery interviews. It's a fact that over 90% of new coders waste hours on Stackoverflow searching for answers.
I'm sure that a lot of people spend a lot of time reading through Stackoverflow's answers. Not sure you're taking the parent comment to heart when you classify that time as wasted. Stackoverflow might not be the optimal solution for finding answers but it certainly adds enough value to the community that they deserves some respect for their approach.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
That comes from months of research including customer discovery interviews. It's a fact that over 90% of new coders waste hours on Stackoverflow searching for answers.
I'm sure that a lot of people spend a lot of time reading through Stackoverflow's answers. Not sure you're taking the parent comment to heart when you classify that time as wasted. Stackoverflow might not be the optimal solution for finding answers but it certainly adds enough value to the community that they deserves some respect for their approach.
It can be a useful resource but not for new coders.
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#45"Stop wasting hours searching Stackoverflow..." Terrible choice for an opening phrase to your website. You are putting yourself in a position against SO which IMHO is one of the few websites that are actually really helpful for the community (definitely not a waste of time). My honest advice, don't get cocky... at least not so early.
That comes from months of research including customer discovery interviews. It's a fact that over 90% of new coders waste hours on Stackoverflow searching for answers.
Imo it's a very good thing that they have to spend a lot of time researching. Along the way they will see and learn many different things and in the end provides experience. Thus I agree with _almosnow.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
That comes from months of research including customer discovery interviews. It's a fact that over 90% of new coders waste hours on Stackoverflow searching for answers.
Imo it's a very good thing that they have to spend a lot of time researching. Along the way they will see and learn many different things and in the end provides experience. Thus I agree with _almosnow.
It's been proven that spending more than 45mins searching for a solution damages learning. That what developer bootcamps are based on. (I'll see if I can dig out research on it).
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#47I'll tell you what I hope this can be: I and co-workers often need domain-specific help, usually with annoying or complex tools. I could spend a few hours doing the research, or I could pay a chunk of money for 30 min. of someone's time to walk me through. Example: I need someone to help me fix some build config problems in Xcode. I'll pay for an Xcode expert to spend 30 min. and walk me through fixing it over Hangou…
We don't want to exclude those who can't afford it or those who have no access to payment.
Here's my opinion. I too wish this was for-pay, and I signed up with that expectation. Helping people is effective and enjoyable, but only if someone values the help enough to pay for it. I'd be happy to even guarantee the work and not be paid unless they were happy with the result.
What always happens with free sites is most of the highest-value people won't offer their services, so it gets focused around less experienced people, which is more efficiently solved by non-live sites like SO.
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#48There'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.
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 p…
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?
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
The 1st step is to match people up. Documentation can come later.
that's the problem. later never happens. with SO the conversation becomes the documentation.
We're not trying to be SO. There no "documenting" feature in our roadmap, I should have said that.