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Show HN: NoobNinja - get and give help for specific coding or design tasks

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Sorry to be negative, but I've personally found that people who offer me prizes, money, etc to help others result in my choosing not to. I have people who are willing to pay me real money to help.

But places where I get involved in discussions, I'm willing to offer valuable advice on.

Since this draws a distinction between people who get and receive help, and discourages public discussion, I can't see myself getting involved. Sorry.

It depends. Some people enjoy teaching, and for beer money, if you're just getting started, what's not to like?

A bit over a decade ago, that is exactly how I thought when I signed up for experts exchange to answer Perl questions. At about the same time I signed up for Perlmonks.

A couple of years later I never went to experts exchange, even though they were willing to pay money. Meanwhile I was so active on Perlmonks that I had the highest earned points of anyone on the site.

It turns out that I enjoy teaching exactly because I'm motivated by the interaction. Make the interaction wrong, and I'm never going to show up. OK, I will if you pay enough, but any true expert will have no shortage of people willing to pay more for their time than any junior person can ever hope to afford.

Now granted, I'm an outlier. But this is a critically important problem that needs to be solved in any kind of problem/answer site.

Looks great! I actually had a very similar idea myself:

http://talkbee.heroku.com/

Never really got it off the ground because I realized it was too complex of an idea for a single person. Two-sided marketplaces in general are hard, but especially one that involves coordinating people's time like this.

I can't sign up as a sensei, Getting the very similar 500 POST error when trying to submit.

"Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error) http://noobninja.com/invites

For anyone having issues - just email your information to sensei@noobninja.com

The issue was with rails' default 255 character limit on strings. Quick change to a text field with no limit fixed things. Small oversights like this truly make me feel like a #NoobNinja :)

Looks really good.

I tried to fill out the form to get an invite, but when I pressed Enter, the form wasn't sent, instead it added a new line to the input field.

Hope this helps, and excuse me for my English - not my main language :)

this is standard behavior for a text box....

EDIT: and btw your English is fine, would never had noticed anything if you didn't say so :P

Hopefully he wasn't filling out the Sensei form...

I'm teasing. I'm sorry, it was too easy and I couldn't let it go.

I must have used a lot of non-standard websites in the past I guess, I definitely would have expected hitting enter to have submitted my email.

You're right. That is standard for a text box. But the email field, which is a textarea element looks like a text input field, where pressing enter would normally submit the form.

Error 500 on the submission for being a sensei, with no feedback to the user that it didn't go through: http://i.imgur.com/DHA4w.png

Think this was due to the uptick in traffic - scaled up the heroku processes to accomodate. Should be ok now!

I don't think so I'm getting a very similar issue.

Strange. Many submissions have gone through ok - looking into it now.

chrome's request dump: http://scrib.in/e23e9s

I'm still getting the 500 error as of now

I'm seeing the 500 Internal Server Error message "We're sorry, but something went wrong." too.

Also, look like exist a invisible char limit in the textarea for sensei, I need to cut some text for the form to submit

Site looks great, a favicon would be a nice final touch

If you want to be proper, you're forgetting to add the 'u' to the end of ohayou and arigatou :P

Actually, if you wanted to be proper you would use a circumflex or macron over the long vowel, depending on which version of ISO 3602[1] you are following.

Of course, that looks pretentious, especially when typed. ;-)

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunrei-shiki_R%C5%8Dmaji

Ah I thought it was more proper to add the u than to do the line over the o. It's at least much more prevalent :P.

Looks fun. Why invite only?

Gathering a solid base of sensei in order to have requests for help filled in a sensible way. Sign up! :)

Very nice -- have you thougt of a screenshare feature on your platform?

request invite button for sensei doesn't seem to do anything?

EDIT: yeah looking at the network requests it's giving an internal server error.

Why do I need Skype to help people?

Skype is generally a good/fast way to communicate - especially when trying to explain something. Certain tasks might not need it, but it's generally the best option in my opinion!

Should also consider Google Hangout. Congrats on the launch!

Hangouts ftw!

Is this similar to Bountify.co?

With Bountify.co, you pay for the result rather than the proccess to the result.

Very nice site design.

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