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Since we qualify a question before proceeding, we'd politely decline if we can't do it in 42 minutes. Our hypothesis is that anything that takes longer qualifies as a consultation, and there are better platforms for people to find such white collar service providers.

As previously mentioned, the question was originally posted on a legal website that we've been running for a few weeks now:

http://www.helplicit.com/askQuestion/:Company-dissolving

Interesting take on this whole scheme of things, thanks for taking the time. I'd add that we're qualifying the question before accepting payment i.e. if its out of scope, we politely decline.

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.

Well we had a launch deadline in mind and DNS updating would have taken an additional 48 hours, so we went ahead and launched it anyway.

Not something I can answer in 42 minutes unfortunately. Have an amazing day.

Thanks for taking the time to go through the questions. I posted that question myself, since it came to me from a third degree contact in the US on my legal website as you will see here: 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.

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.

Precisely, one of our motivations stems from this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20859332

Appreciate the point you make, but we're not claiming this to be the one stop shop for everything. Anything that we cannot do in 42 will either be politely refused or handed to someone who can. There are other platforms to hire talent for more elaborate jobs, we're not claiming to be one. Short contextual queries is where we'd be best suited to help :)

Not sure why you would say that, given that we've been answering legal questions for weeks now under the YC SUS program and have been surfing 5 star ratings on our Facebook page:

http://helplicit.com/

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.

Not sure I quite got the piece of paper reference, but as the site suggests "If it can be done in 42, it will be done in 42"

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 :)

Point noted. I will change the question for one that we answered on our website, there are numerous examples:

http://helplicit.com/

Again the idea was and is to demonstrate diversity. Appreciate you pointing that out though.

Thanks for taking the time to go through the questions. I posted that question myself, since it came to me from a third degree contact in the US on my legal website as you will see here:

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 SO source in question is one that I have answered, and not copied from any random source off the internet.

Fair point, though I'd like to add that Paypal has a rigorous process for vetting businesses, which means that if I were a fraudster I wouldn't be able to share payment links in the first place.

Doesn't acquit me of putting up a bare bones site up in the first place though :)

Probably, in which case i'd end it at "information is free and knowledge isn't" :)

It's to demonstrate the idea that we'd like to answer with a few notches of g as boost :)

Yes and no. 'Yes' as in there are answers, and 'No' as in referring to the questions we've answered in the past, we are directed towards contextual questions.

E.g. I've a bug in my code right now and it needs to get into production right away.

Hope that helps.

Thanks for that tip! I couldn't get the redirect with masking to work in time, but cleaning it up as we speak :)

Thanks for your question, if you look at some of the examples on the site, our staple questions are contextual ones e.g. something the user is facing at the moment. That could be a legal, IT, finance problem or others that we can help with instantly, but I hope you get the idea.

For everything else, there is Wolfram Alpha :)

Updated to "If it can be done in 42, it will be done in 42." on the website :)

We're looking to charge 10 cents per minute of work done, and are setting ourselves standards to take less than the amount of time it takes to answer the ultimate question :)

Fair point, though I'd add that information is free and knowledge isn't. If it were the case, student loans would be coming down instead of spiraling to record highs.

We're happy sending you LinkedIn profiles of the people who are behind the answers. Transparency is our mantra.

Hi thanks for the feedback, sincerely appreciate it! Have to agree that it is pretty bare bones at the moment, and been haphazardly done in a few hours as I was too impatient to test it out lol. It will be chiseled in the days to come.

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 :)

Hey thanks for the comment.

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 :)

Hi guys, the culprit founder here. Indeed 4,20 => 4.20 Apologies for the snafu, been corrected now :)

great point! Would that be generic wellbeing/diagnostic?!

Hi guys testing out an AI flight compensation agent, would love to help anybody who got a raw deal with an airline!