How do you find an expert? Your car has a strange sound. Your DNS over HTTP is rejecting you. Your CI pipeline is fragile and seems non-deterministic.<p>It feels like there's a business opportunity here to somehow connect the people who know with the people (like me) who are willing to pay for an hour or two of a proper expert's time.<p>In my most recent case, I have a pihole with cloudflared dns-over-https, and I get frequent rejections. Nobody likes being rejected, especially when it means your network is useless 25% of the time. But web searches lead nowhere. I would pay for proper help, but there's no obvious service to match the experts with the clients.<p>Is there one? If not, is there interest to build such a matchmaking service?
I was contacted a few times by consulting firms to provide expert opinion to hedge funds and other investment business. But generally they didn't want to solve a particular problem, just an overview of some industry or technology.<p>For more specific stuff, I think that's sort of what AWS IQ does in their domain.<p>> I would pay for proper help<p>Out of curiosity, how much?
Many of my colleagues have gotten messages on linked in from consulting firms where they basically offer $300 for an hour long phone call with a client. I'm not sure how they're getting picked, but they all have PhDs and papers in the field the client is interested in.<p>I definitely think there's something to the idea of making the discovery process easy. I would pay to chat with a doctor about a bunch of things that aren't related to my personal health, and to someone who works on industrial electrolyzers, just off the top of my head.
Totally depends on the industry. I've been called on as an expert a few times by GLG which seems to do this as a service <a href="https://glginsights.com" rel="nofollow">https://glginsights.com</a> but I don't think they cover everything and there are other companies in more specific verticals like tech support for companies (<a href="https://www.electric.ai/" rel="nofollow">https://www.electric.ai/</a>)