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duckasaservice.com

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I'm actually a little bit sad because I thought booking a duck would start some two-way WebRTC session between me and a live stream of an actual rubber duck...

yup - this is exactly what I thought! But I guess someone who can actually help with the problem is ok too.

#1- I've found that rubber ducky problems get solved fairly quickly.. but I can't schedule a duck until 3 days out as of 9/1 2:15 PM CST.

#2- If you won't sign a custom NDA, I would certainly feel better if you presented me with a stock NDA that all of your ducks have agreed to.

Edit: #3- To protect yourself and your customers I'd suggest that you make sure you have a no-PHI and no-real-payment-info (PCI) requirement :)

Interesting project, but I feel like it's asking too many things upfront. I'd rather just put my email, the description of problem I need help with, and hit send.

You may have been looking for this?

http://rubberduckasaservice.codebyjeff.com/

Dissapointed you don't get actual rubber ducks. I wish there was a rubberduckasaservice.com

Looks interesting. Can you explain in a little more detail how your pricing works please? Thanks!

So it's CodeMentor.io / HackHands? Without NDAs or live chat or ....?

Well, have you tried using Codementor or Hackhands? It's so horrible I think this will hardly be worse or even equal.

Yes, I have used both, though as mentor, not a mentee. I think there's a set of features that each offers that I'd consider minimal features in a similar product offering, and I'm not seeing those in Duck.

the link on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging is broken. fix it

Thank you!

How many ducks do you currently have?

The duck pool auto-scales to meet the demand, of course.

Had a similar idea a while ago but correct me if I'm wrong, this service sets you up on a call with a rubber duck (an image I suppose) for x time? Are you using Google Hangouts API?

Thanks for the comment, sounds like I should revise the text. You actually get a real human (ahem, duck), even one that can code and ask questions about what you are doing, and potentially help debug the problem.

Now I'm disappointed, I was hoping for actual rubber ducks as a service. Find a nice pond or interior fountain. Fill it with rubber ducks. Add tracking cameras to track a random one for the length of a call. Soothing, random bobbing.

Wow I literally had no idea that you were actually pairing people up with real people, I thought it was a duck too (or some 3d animated thing).

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