I like the idea, I'm unsure of the pricing strategy. "How much do I get paid? code4cheap.com keeps 30% of the question's price. For example, with a $10 question, the best answer will receive $7." What if you changed that around, with something like a question posting fee. When I go to the site as a coder, I want to get the $50 I see, not $35 after you take your cut. It's inflating the payment that I would actually ge…
My feeling was that as a questioner, I don't want to pay $50 to have the number "35" show up. I think people will get comfortable with the pricing scheme over time.
I'm not sure what you mean by "wait for questions"... Yes, I would love to add that ability in the future. If I get a lot of re-usable submissions, that may happen sooner rather than later.
I got the impression Skakes was asking for posting scripts. "I have a Ruby script that converts X in to Y" "I have a Python script that lets people reset Active Directory and LDAP passwords" Skakes can then ask for however much money for those scripts.
This seems like it could be a really powerful idea, especially if the solutions were ranked well on Google. As a wannabe hacker, I often find myself searching for solutions to particular problems I need to solve within a larger JavaScript or Python or whatever script only to find some large project that I have to spend tons of time dissecting just to see how that one thing works. If I could spend $5 to save that time, I surely would. And, sometimes seeing the solution in another language could even help find an answer in the language I'm trying to use. Of course, depending on the language, there may be an active community on the web or IRC that can answer my question in real-time.
I assume that Sakes means that right now, it appears as though a coder uses this site by fulfilling requests (questions). Currently, there are 3 requests that a coder could potentially fulfill. Sakes is asking if it is possible to offer services directly, without waiting for somebody to ask for them.
Oh! I hadn't even thought of that. So a coder says: "hey, I'm good at Python and..." I'm having trouble filling in the blank there. Would they solicit questions and then get exclusivity? Would they just generally advertise? I'm not really sure how that would work.
Maybe someone just spent a week writing an ecommerce integration and would like to sell that script for $250 a pop to as many people as would like to buy it.
I don't get it - why are there only four questions and no answers? What happens to my code after I've posted it? Can it be used by the site (as in re-sold)?
I'm not sure what you mean by "wait for questions"... Yes, I would love to add that ability in the future. If I get a lot of re-usable submissions, that may happen sooner rather than later.
I got the impression Skakes was asking for posting scripts. "I have a Ruby script that converts X in to Y" "I have a Python script that lets people reset Active Directory and LDAP passwords" Skakes can then ask for however much money for those scripts.
I don't get it - why are there only four questions and no answers? What happens to my code after I've posted it? Can it be used by the site (as in re-sold)?
I have just launched.
Your code remains public on the site under any license you specify. It may be republished by the site, but only used under the terms of your specified license.
Academic dishonesty comes from academically dishonest students. Instead of policing each question and guessing if it's homework or not, I'm simply allowing any question.
Then you should say you are allowing any question (or don't say anything at all). By addressing it in the FAQ and explicitly saying you allow it, you are implying that you condone academic dishonesty. edited for clarity
I assume that Sakes means that right now, it appears as though a coder uses this site by fulfilling requests (questions). Currently, there are 3 requests that a coder could potentially fulfill. Sakes is asking if it is possible to offer services directly, without waiting for somebody to ask for them.
blhack: I can't reply to your comment so am posting here. It would work like this: 1. You need to have a solution repository. 2. Developers post solutions there. For instance, find numbers less than n where the sum of divisors is greater than number but none of the divisor subset equals the number. And the solution is tagged with the implementation language. 3. Before posting a question, someone can look into the rep…
I feel like that leads me down the path of being Experts-Exchange, and I don't really want to go there.
Cool idea! Sometimes I wish Stackoverflow had a similar functionality, where rather than getting help, I could literally offer a cash bounty for the solution. I realize the focus of SO is for education, but would be a nice option, particularly since it already has a very active community.
Cool idea! Sometimes I wish Stackoverflow had a similar functionality, where rather than getting help, I could literally offer a cash bounty for the solution. I realize the focus of SO is for education, but would be a nice option, particularly since it already has a very active community. Hopefully this site will too!
Thank you. This is exactly the reason I built this site.
I had the idea a long time ago, and then SO came out a few weeks later, so I abandoned it because I thought SO would fill that space. However, they've remained free, and it's still hard to get an answer on something requiring more than a few minutes' time.