Show HN: FortyQ – Answering any question in forty-two minutes
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> Q. We are 2 co-founders and directors of a company. There is a valuation of 8M and we finished the seed round. However we cannot agree on how to move forward. We are considering dissolving the company. My co-founder has told me that if I decide to dissolve , he will agree , then re-incorporate without me. Is this legal? If yes, How do I prevent this from happening?
, and it looks like this question was just posted to reddit [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/ecaxx2/disso...), with [this response](https://www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/ecaxx2/disso...) then given back as the answer.
So is the idea to ask questions for people on other Q&A sites like reddit or StackExchange?
You are missing the attribution part from https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.
And you intend to be taken seriously as a site that will answer legal questions?
Again the idea was and is to demonstrate diversity. Appreciate you pointing that out though.
I have a piece of paper that tells me I'm an expert in some domains, and there are more than enough straightforward questions in my field I can't answer in 42 minutes, and certainly not for $4.20, even if I was just paid minimum wage.
Re your question about domains: sure we cannot cover everything at the moment. Other domains would work into our business model which will unfold over time. For the moment we'll stick to where we can bring most value :)
And my field of expertise is a tiny subset of "IT". The other two fields you take questions on are "Legal" and "Finance".
Do you really think you can any non-trivial answer in those extremely broad fields?
Since our legal services broadly cover EU/India at the moment (Uk is WIP) and I'm an engineer, I wanted to help the person out thus went hunting for an answer which was on the house. Whilst scraping this site together, I pulled together some of the answers that we provided to reflect the spectrum of answers as well as our willingness to help, even at the cost of man hunting for answers myself which are on the house. Hope it helps.
If it were my intention to scrape, I would have just picked the most upvoted answers on SO, instead I picked one with 2 upvotes since it was one I provided.
Attribution has now been added.
http://www.helplicit.com/askQuestion/:Company-dissolving
Since our legal services broadly cover EU/India at the moment (Uk is WIP) and I'm an engineer, I wanted to help the person out thus went hunting for an answer which was on the house. Whilst scraping this site together, I pulled together some of the answers that we provided to reflect the spectrum of answers as well as our willingness to help, even at the cost of man hunting for answers myself which are on the house. Hope it helps.
The reason we're going beyond is because we've been getting questions from other domains as well, and are just following what our existing customers are asking us for.
Maybe a little O/T but if you have a company supposedly valued at 8M and you need to pay $4 for 'legal help' from a Wix sham site, then you probably deserve to lose it all!
Answer can be lots of things, it's easy to avoid actually answering the question.
If it can be done in 42 we will do it in 42, so NP is probably a hard one at this stage :)
The ultimate question is out of our humane reach unfo, but we'll try to cover the rest :)
For everything else, there is Wolfram Alpha :)
For this demonstration, you get to play repeatedly.
Let's make you too smart for your own good. You start off with the strategy I think is stupid and wrong. So: each time you play, you select both boxes on the (stupid, wrong) theory that selecting both strictly dominates selecting just one. Of course, each time, there's nothing in the second box because your choice has been predicted.
After playing several hundred times and amassing a tiny little mound of gold flakes you think about whether you even know any shops where you can convert it, and you didn't even bring a zip lock bag with you, what are you going to do, go home with golddust in your pockets? You think about the hours of time that you've spent. Finally you wisen up and say fuck it, this time time I'll just select the one box.
Since your choice has been predicted, you finally get the million dollars, and you realize you were pretty dumb for wasting several hours on a few specks of gold.
You keep playing, selecting just the one box, and keep getting a million dollars each time. After you have more cash than you can drive home, you thank God for all your cash and go home.
This proves that the choice is simple and there is no paradox or contradiction. With my approach, do you see any paradox?
I thought you were just giving any paradox as an example of a difficult problem, and could have given any.
I don't quite follow the analogy with this agency's policies, could you make it a bit more clear? What are the "boxes" in this case?
On a side note, aren't we already doing the same when we go to white collar practitioners like doctors and lawyers for advice? I mean you pay the service irrespective of whether we like the advice or not. With FortyQ, we're giving you a way out of that with refunds.
One thing that I have noticed working legal questions in the past weeks is that people more lost than they were when given all possible viewpoints and given the possibility to choose. More often than not they are looking for someone to tell them what to do. Makes sense though if you think about it.
Not sure I entirely got the 'Education against them.. ' point, could you elaborate?
Could be constructive though as far as law is concerned.
What typical examples would you refer to?
The experience wasn't bad, but people were a bit more polite on the internet back then and usually paid up even when they weren't 100% satisfied with the answer.
In case you are open to the idea, my is contact@helplicit.com
Thanks in advance and hope to hear from you!
We're thus looking to collaborate with ninjas in various domains who can help answering questions. Please reach out to us via the website if it is of interest to you, and we'd be happy to chat.
The vision? Join us in building the world's biggest curated knowledge base, 42 minutes at a time :)
E.g. I've a bug in my code right now and it needs to get into production right away.
Hope that helps.
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.
The most confusing pricing I’ve ever seen. Is it $420 (outrageous and thousand separator placed wrong)? Or is it $4.20 with the comma as decimal separator as seen in some non-English-speaking European countries (but why would you use that convention with USD)?
Just kidding, it's USD 4.20.
Most likely this considering it is a French website.
(I was confused for a second anyway but tipped off by the outrageousness of $420.)
Edit: Since this is Hacker News, let's talk about programming languages. 4_20 is the same as 420 in Python (3.7+) but not 4.20; 4'20 is the same as 420 in C++ (14+) but not 4.20.
EDIT: It looks like I'm wrong about the comma used to separate pounds from pence: that's not normal in Britain. (What about '='? I think I've seen that in handwriting, but I can't say for sure in which country.)
I've never seen that.
Pre decimal was almost always a '-' when there are pounds, a / (more like a super long apostrophe) when under 240p. So £5-2-6 for £5, 2 shillings and sixpence, 7/6 for seven and sixpence. Less common was £5 6s 2d, or slashes £2/19/2 3⁄4d, but there were a lot of conventions for written Lsd, with nary a comma among 'em. :)
Edit: to your edit, = was common (seems much less so now) for whole pounds, and in the pre-decimal era too, e.g. £1/==, or simply £1==. Also pre decimal whole shillings: 5/=, sometimes 5/-. In the days we still wrote cheques when it was for whole pounds it was common to fill the remainder of the figures box with two lines, essentially =====, after the £250 or whatever numerals.
This might be a great idea (I’m not sure), but basic layout is table stakes before I even think about what you’re selling.
It’s an attention to detail thing. If you can’t see the obvious problems with your own home page, what hope do I have that I’ll actually get $4.20 worth of value from you?
(† Speaking of which, I closed my 20 year old eBay account today.)
It sounds like you wouldn't ever be a customer (and that's fine), but you're looking for reasons to _not_ use the site.
They’ve had 20 years and billions of dollars to make their site, their whole experience, great.
They failed to do that. I’ve had enough. Same with eBay. Enough is enough.
I'd add that we wouldn't disappoint on the product, which is the quality of the answer baked in 42 minutes. And of course we're happy refunding in case we do :)
And you want me to give you money? C’mon.
Doesn't acquit me of putting up a bare bones site up in the first place though :)