Hey, everyone, we are looking for some Symfony programmers to answer
questions on our new Symfony site. Darren Hoyt and I are often asked
for help with small programming or design tasks, simple problems that
require maybe 5 minutes of our time. We find it isn't always easy to
charge for the small stuff. Since we do a lot of work with WordPress,
we recently built WP Questions, a place where WordPress experts can
earn some money by answering people's emergency questions about
WordPress:
http://www.wpquestions.com/
There are a lot of free forums on the web, and tons of information
about WordPress. We don't think WP Questions competes with the free
WordPress forums, so much as it supplements them. WP Questions is for
emergencies. When someone has the luxury of time, they can use the
free forums.
Today we are launching Symfony Experts, which is the same kind of
site, but aimed at Symfony:
http://www.symfonyexperts.com/
As I said above about WordPress, this site is not meant to replace the
free forums and mailist lists. Symfony Experts is a supplemental site
- a place a programmer can turn when they've got an urgent problem.
We have a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem when launching these sites,
since the experts aren't interested till their are customers and the
cusomters aren't interested till their are experts. Still, our
preference is to get some experts signed up first, before we start
marketing this thing heavily to all programmers working with Symfony.
Please consider signing up now. Once we have about 10 good Symfony
programmers signed up, we'll begin marketing the site. It is free to
sign up.
The people asking the questions put up prize money for whoever answers
them. You can look at WP Questions to see the kinds of money people
has so far offered. Darren Hoyt and I are charging 9% plus 50 cents on
top of the prize money offered (so a customer who offers a prize of
$20 pays $22.30). PayPal takes roughly 5% of our money, so we are left
with roughly 4% of the prize as our profit. We'd like to split that
money with anyone who can help bring traffic to the site. Toward that
end, we have a variety of affilate programs:
http://www.symfonyexperts.com/page/static/name/Affiliates
More details are here:
http://blog.symfonyexperts.com/?p=4
For our customers who are paying to ask questions, this tutorial
explains how to ask a question:
http://www.symfonyexperts.com/page/static/name/HowToAskAQuestion
For our customers who are paying to ask questions, this tutorial
explains how to assign prize money to an expert who has answered your
question:
http://www.symfonyexperts.com/page/static/name/HowToAssignPrizeMoney
By the way, next month we will be launching similar sites for MySql
and Javascript. And in a bit of what the engineers at Microsoft would
call "eat your own dog food" I'll be posting a bunch of questions on
Symfony Experts, to get advice about how to build out our network of
sites.
We built our site using Symfony, for reasons I described here:
http://symfonynerds.com/blog/?p=323
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