Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for live programming help

Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by fabian2k on Monday February 22, 2021 @05:28PM (#26231543)

I'd guess that the people at Stack Overflow might have an issue with someone using their name in this way. It should probably be clearer that this is entirely unaffiliated.

100+ reputation on SO is also a ridiculously low bar, it's almost meaningless. Not that any amount of reputation by itself is a sure indicator, but 100 really doesn't mean anything at all.

This kind of site also requires a pretty large critical mass to work, you don't just want a bunch of random SO users willing to participate, but you need the right users with experience in the right tags to match to the requests in a reasonable timeframe.

There's a good reason Stack Overflow doesn't allow people to pay for answers, people already cheat enough for meaningless internet points, this will get much worse with real money on the line.

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Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by hiimtroymclure on Monday February 22, 2021 @05:47PM (#26231702)

I am a junior dev with ~400 reputation. Trust me you dont want my help lol!

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Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by Frypa on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @09:14AM (#26237439)

I'd rather have your help because you are eager to help and probably the patience to understand my problem, than having an expert who doesn't care and just want to get over with it.

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Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by csomar on Monday February 22, 2021 @06:02PM (#26231859)

You get 100 rep points by linking a different stack exchange account. So it's pretty much anyone.

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Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by erhk on Monday February 22, 2021 @05:45PM (#26231697)

You can get 100 rep on stack overflow by getting high rep in any other stack exchange site. By knowing a lot about tabletop games I could sign up.

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Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by azemetre on Monday February 22, 2021 @10:53PM (#26233638)

I'd definitely call you to handle the flow of a few rules in certain games haha.

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Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by tvb12 on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @01:12AM (#26234312)

First, the person who brought the game spends an hour reading the rule book. Finally, someone finds a 10-minute video on youtube where the creator of the game walks you through a few rounds of the game. That was my experience with Mice and Mystics, anyway. Awesome game. Still can't get anyone else to play it with me.

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Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by notretarded on Monday February 22, 2021 @05:52PM (#26231768)

Most of the higher rated accounts have their cred built up from asking good questions rather than good answers.

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Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by Jimjamb98 on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @03:33AM (#26235058)

I wonder if people will start paid services (think bot accounts) to vote people to a 100+ rep on SO now there's a monetary incentive to get there

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