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Re:Show HN: FortyQ – Answering any question in forty-two min... by judlaw on Friday December 20, 2019 @06:07AM (#21843232)
We're looking to charge 10 cents per minute of work done, and are setting ourselves standards to take less than the amount of time it takes to answer the ultimate question :)
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Re:Show HN: FortyQ – Answering any question in forty-two min... by techntoke on Friday December 20, 2019 @09:59AM (#21844594)
$6/hr. is less than minimum wage. Are you outsourcing to slaves?
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Re:Show HN: FortyQ – Answering any question in forty-two min... by judlaw on Friday December 20, 2019 @12:00PM (#21845547)
Afraid its too soon to answer that one, we're just testing a hypothesis atm :)
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Re:Show HN: FortyQ – Answering any question in forty-two min... by quickthrower2 on Saturday December 21, 2019 @06:54PM (#21854083)
Yeah just make it up on volume.
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Re:Show HN: FortyQ – Answering any question in forty-two min... by judlaw on Saturday December 21, 2019 @08:32PM (#21854531)
That indeed is one way to go!
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Re:Show HN: FortyQ – Answering any question in forty-two min... by throwawayhhakdl on Friday December 20, 2019 @08:21AM (#21843911)
Why would you do this? You’re getting $6 / hour. To become usefully profitable you would need to answer questions much much faster.

It sounds like you’re really just betting that you can middle man search engines by being better at searching for users who suck at it.

Reading between the lines, your plan is to look at questions, google the answer, and if you don’t see it immediately, say that it’s not answerable. There’s no way even 1% of these questions can be answered off the top of your head or the collective heads of your workforce... and you don’t have time to do diligent research.

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