$5 One-liners: Can we build a viable advice service when people can StackExchange for free?
It's very satisfying to be able to help someone out with a sticky problem or annoyance with a very, very short solution.
e.g.
Q: I want to lower-case the filenames of my MP3 collection
A: for i in *mp3;do n=echo "$i"|perl -pe '$_=lc';mv "$i" "$n";done
But, there's already a place to do that: StackExchange
I'd like to see if we can do this and charge for it when there's already an established, free alternative.
So why not start in this thread? If you have a problem that can likely be solved with a very short solution, please ask it, and if I or anyone can help you solve it, donate $5 to a charity of your choice.
Thats not what Fiverr do?
In some sense, yes, but I think StackExchange is the more relevant threat since it is free, and fiverr charges. Also, fiverr is less focused on giving advice.
Sure, im just saying some people are already getting paid for giving advice and helping with small tasks... :)
Certainly I would consider using fiverr as the "backend" so to speak if I found this was a viable thing. I'm not yet sure it is, though.
Give it a try :D Test the idea on Fiverr and others...
What others would you suggest besides Fiverr?
Amazon Mechanical Turk
Isn't mechanical turk the opposite? buyers post boring tasks rather than interesting ones?
Hum... You are correct, was a bad example. But still shows that you can buy or sell many of those small tasks.