[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Is there a Stack Overflow clone that pays mo...
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Ask HN: Is there a Stack Overflow clone that pays money for
answers?
I'm having a problem with StackOverflow - it's _usually_ about
basic programming stuff. Sometimes I work on a kind of niche this
and asking questions about those gives you no answers (or weird off
topic answers). From what I know I can 't offer money for solution
there, but I think that's the only way I could attract someone and
actually get an answer. I feel that more poeple may share the same
feeling. I'm not looking for a job offering websites, it's not
about doing the whole project for me - it's about letting me just
skip the part I can't solve. It's also not about trying to monetize
answers for trivial questions. I helped hundreds of people already
in the past and I understand the value of knowledge sharing. An
example: I need to run Lua compiler (not Lua VM or something) in a
browser. I'm totally not experienced with c++, emscripten, wasm,
etc and I'm not interested right now. I just want to embed this
solution into my frontend app. Not a whole project taking
days/weeks/months, not a trivial question about centering images in
a box. Is there something like that already? Do you feel that is
something you want to exist? (BTW: If you feel brave - feel free
to steal this idea and make it into reality if it not exist.)
Author : dzek69
Score : 16 points
Date : 2022-09-15 18:00 UTC (5 hours ago)
| tgflynn wrote:
| I would think a platform for some kind of micro-consulting would
| be more interesting, rather than just question answering, because
| such questions may be so niche that you're unlikely to find
| someone who can just answer off the top of their head, but you
| might find someone who could provide a reasonable answer with a
| few hours of research and investigation.
|
| As for your specific question, why would you assume that "running
| a Lua compiler in the browser" is an easy thing to do ? I would
| say that unless someone has already developed that integration
| and made it available chances are that it would actually be a
| significant project to implement.
|
| Perhaps fengari, as suggested by another commenter, would do what
| you need. Presumably it must include a Lua byte compiler, so the
| question is whether it provides access to the byte compiled code
| (though why anyone would need to byte compile Lua in the browser
| but not run that code is beyond me).
| dzek69 wrote:
| I may be wrong but I think finding a person for micro
| consulting should be quite easy even now.
|
| And for LUA issue and why I think it's easy thing to do. I
| found at least few solutions for running Lua VM in a browser
| with emscripten. I read about running ffmpeg in browser.
|
| It's all about changing some configuration and compiling the
| code to be used with web assembly. The solution for what I need
| is a single command. But knowing nothing about c++ I find it
| hard to compile lua compiler instead of lua VM. And because I
| need several versions of lua - fengari is not an option, but
| it's sure an interesting project I may use somewhere else.
| marek_leisk2 wrote:
| Micro-consulting sounds like hell. Sales are a huge drag on any
| expert trying to capitalise. By the very nature of their
| business they need fewer but larger deals.
| ontouchstart wrote:
| I think you might want to change your perspective a little bit
| and think about what value this system could offer for the
| problem solvers other than compensate for their time and
| attention.
|
| (Why would I spend 15 minutes reading your post and writing this
| comment if I am not getting paid?)
| hbcondo714 wrote:
| I think you are looking for something like Experts Exchange:
|
| https://go.experts-exchange.com/
| HeyLaughingBoy wrote:
| I think Quora or CodeMentor might be a good place to ask that
| kind of question. ISTR that CodeMentor has a way that you can pay
| to get short-term help like you need.
| uberman wrote:
| Did you check out: https://fengari.io/ by any chance?
| dzek69 wrote:
| never seen that before. It seems nice, I may use it some day.
|
| It doesn't solve my Lua issue unfortunately - I need several
| versions of lua - and fengari seems to implement lua 5.3.
|
| Also the lua thing is just an example. I had many of such "not
| trivial, not too much" + "i don't really care, i need an answer
| and never go back to it" situations. I still long for
| StackOverflow with money offer for a solution.
| PaulHoule wrote:
| I used to work for HackHands where you could get assigned to help
| people out with programming problems in real time and get paid.
|
| It was mostly fun but also a bit sketchy. Frequently I'd wind up
| helping students with their CS homework which is questionable but
| usually pleasant work.
|
| Occasionally I'd run into a "hard case" such as the person who
| wanted me to make changes to the production SQL Server database
| where it wasn't clear to me that he had permission to make the
| changes and I didn't want to be responsible for messing the
| system up. (Which would have been a risk no matter what but I
| hadn't admined a SQL server database in years at that point.)
| dzek69 wrote:
| Such website would surely require a good terms of service and
| some kind of moderation to avoid any shady events from
| happening.
|
| HackHands was acquired, I will take a look at what PluralSight
| is about, but it's not definitely a QA website with a price
| listed near the topics.
| andrewmcwatters wrote:
| I own a software consultancy[1], and work with Lua. It sounds
| like you want to run different versions of luac(1) in the
| browser, but not lua(1). Correct?
|
| On a separate note, marek_leisk2 is correct. I have clients who I
| can bill for 15 minutes at a time, but it's because they are
| already established clients with me.
|
| Edit: Sounds like this was just one example. Feel free to email
| andrew@andrewmcwatters.com or reply here and we can talk through
| that problem further if you want. No charge.
|
| As a quick reply and to be honest, unless you absolutely need
| this running in a browser, I'd just take a $12/yr VPS[2], pipe
| source to luac, then return its output to your users. It's less
| than maintaining luac builds with JavaScript integration points
| of multiple versions of Lua.
|
| [1]: https://www.andrewmcwatters.com/
|
| [2]: https://my.racknerd.com/aff.php?aff=2502
| ccvannorman wrote:
| try using Upwork or another Contracting Platform and post a job
| of "Expert Lua compiler consultant needed" with a one-time job
| fee of $250 (or pick your number). Then, filter their available
| talent by Lua and reach out to 20-50 contractors with Lua in
| their description, asking if they're interested in this job.
| speedgoose wrote:
| It sounds like more work than doing the implementation
| yourself.
| GuB-42 wrote:
| I have seen several websites where you can attach a bounty to a
| question. StackOverflow does that with reputation, but I have
| seen some sites do it with money.
|
| First relevant result on Google (not a recommendation):
| https://bountyquestion.com/
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