Okay. I did it, paid my $10 bucks and waiting for an email. I actually run a much more expensive, competing service: http://talkshopwithus.com
Interesting. Will you be sharing your email/conversation with him?
Sure, what the heck.
Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.
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Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.
#102Okay. I did it, paid my $10 bucks and waiting for an email. I actually run a much more expensive, competing service: http://talkshopwithus.com
Here's Jordan's first email:
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Hey there,
Thanks for buying Brutal Honesty. What can I help you with? Ask away.
Cheers
Jordan
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And then this is my reply:
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Hi Jordan,
So I was hoping to get your honest opinion on a business idea I'm working on. It's a bit similar to your business I guess.
Here's our site:
Let me know if you think this seems like total bullshit, or if it's cool.
Thanks!
-Alex
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#103Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.
#104I can get brutal honesty on Reddit for free. (And polite honesty, also for free, from Dear Abby.)
Reddit sprung to mind for me too. This is a bad idea. Fine, you pay $10 for someone's honest opinion, but it's just one person's opinion, you really want to consult multiple sources to get a balanced view, otherwise you could make a bad decision based on another person being in a shitty mood (for whatever reason). Plus, I find friends will be honest with you if you expressly give them permission to be, and promise no…
Seems counterproductive to claim that this is a "bad idea". The only point you prove is why you're not going to be his customer. Lets see how many people take him up on this to wait and see if its a bad idea.
Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.
#105Okay. I did it, paid my $10 bucks and waiting for an email. I actually run a much more expensive, competing service: http://talkshopwithus.com
On your site, in viewports less than 768px wide, the header background image disappears, leaving a light background that makes the text very difficult to read. The image should probably not disappear, and the background-color should also be changed to something dark like the image, so that in case the image doesn’t load the text will still be legible.
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#106Honest question - Is there like a useful version of this for ,you know, hard CS/ML/... questions. Like what ML model should I use for training this dataset, & some advice on hyperparameter tuning ? That sort of thing. There's a void between the completely free stackoverflow ( even with bounty ) and an odesk. Some in-between system where you pay $10 for 5 minutes of legit expert advice. Anybody ?
Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.
#107Okay. I did it, paid my $10 bucks and waiting for an email. I actually run a much more expensive, competing service: http://talkshopwithus.com
On your site, in viewports less than 768px wide, the header background image disappears, leaving a light background that makes the text very difficult to read. The image should probably not disappear, and the background-color should also be changed to something dark like the image, so that in case the image doesn’t load the text will still be legible.
Thanks for catching that!
Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.
#108Honest question - Is there like a useful version of this for ,you know, hard CS/ML/... questions. Like what ML model should I use for training this dataset, & some advice on hyperparameter tuning ? That sort of thing. There's a void between the completely free stackoverflow ( even with bounty ) and an odesk. Some in-between system where you pay $10 for 5 minutes of legit expert advice. Anybody ?
We used to have completely free "brutally honest" feedback from legit experts on comp.xxxx newsgroups in their heyday. The eternal september killed it forever.
Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.
#109Honest question - Is there like a useful version of this for ,you know, hard CS/ML/... questions. Like what ML model should I use for training this dataset, & some advice on hyperparameter tuning ? That sort of thing. There's a void between the completely free stackoverflow ( even with bounty ) and an odesk. Some in-between system where you pay $10 for 5 minutes of legit expert advice. Anybody ?
I think you could look at short term consulting services like AirPair (recent YC company) or HackHands- they offer on demand video/audio calls with specialists that can help with specific technological problems. OP's service is more about absolute honesty than specific knowledge.
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#110Hey everyone - thanks for the feedback. I wasn't sure how the response would be but it's been mostly positive so far.
I came up with the idea because I wanted to use such a service, but when I couldn't find anything I figured I'd create it and thought it would be fun. Most importantly I want to help people out - the $10 is so I can (somewhat) justify it from a time perspective. So far it turns out I'm spending a lot of time on each request, but that's fine because I'm enjoying it.
I'm really appreciating the snark as well!