Ask an Expert! - Micropayments for Answers

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Would you pay a small amount to get your question answered by an expert, guru, or celebrity? I would! And that's what this app is all about.

History

An original idea of mine, this app would be a messaging system where you post a question to a famous person or expert, and a bid price. That person can then accept the question, answer you, and then the payment (SafeCoin) is sent from you to them. So you could ask Bill Nye how to create an explosion, or ask Oprah about her new book, or even post a question to Stephen Hawking about his deep theories. This would allow people to feel more connected to eachother, expand their knowledge-base, and earn money for a quick 1-2 minutes of typing work. It would be quite exciting.

Features

Very simple, just a messenger with a SafeCoin escrow, so that once an acceptable answer is made, the person who is asking the question can release the escrow to the other person. Perhaps integration of voice / video recordings could be made, for more interactive / visual answers to questions. Quite a simple but powerful app idea.

Launch Date

It was expected that the network would launch at the end of last year, (and this app soon after,) however an amazing new coding language came out called "Rust" that turned out to be perfect for the SAFE Network to be created with. So, the team decided to restart the whole network from scratch in Rust. This means we will have to wait a few more months to see the network or this app. Follow it on Github!