Stack Overflow is an interesting phenomenon.
A platform where some of the greatest technical minds answer various questions and in return are rewarded with reputation points. The amount of reputation points scored is determined by the rating of the given question and the quality of your answer. And the “winning” answer gets extra reputation points.
But what can I do with these sought-after reputation points? Buy something, transfer to fiat currency? Absolutely nothing. They are purely a vanity metric that developers inevitably use as signal when applying for jobs and it works well. Very well. 10s of millions of answers and even more developer hours saved.
It is truly a public good in every sense of the word and Stack Overflow should remain.
There are some issues though. This reputation game optimises for experts to be the first to answer a question with the highest possible score. Thus less desirable questions usually don't get answered. What this means is people seeking tech support with a poorly worded question never really get help. And there's millions of these people. Another major shortfall is monetisation. If you're the number 1 expert on Stack Overflow the only way to monetise this status (aside from an actual job) is generally to write and promote your book. So in theory, you could be an expert in some super technical field, help literally millions of developers and save even more developer hours and the only way to extract value from the system for yourself would be to flog your book. Seems inefficient.
Enter MemoryPool.tech
MemoryPool is a platform of experts that are available for technical support (and advice) on any subject.
If you're a noob in Solidity, you can literary ask the worlds leading expert (according to Stack Overflow reputation) in the field for one-on-one help and get an answer.
In order to contact these experts, you need to buy and hold their "tickets" (think of “shares”, which later became “keys” in friend.tech). These tickets are priced on a bonding curve à la friend.tech. What this means is, if you buy tickets early, they will cost less. This will also bring with it a fair amount of speculation, which, in this case is healthy. The expert gets a cut of every trade of their tickets so speculation ultimately rewards the expert.
Why would the experts want to answer these questions?
Well they have an incentive to keep their ticket price high (remember the more circulating supply of the tickets the higher the price of the next ticket sold). These experts will treat their ticket price as the new Stack Overflow reputation and work hard to elevate this number.
I must re-iterate, we are not trying to replace Stack Overflow. The idea here is that the Stack Overflow reputation is still valuable in MemoryPool and experts will work to keep that high to improve their discoverability on MemoryPool (generally search results are ordered by Stack Overflow reputation). MemoryPool will now be a way of monetising expertise in a way Stack Overflow can't.
How does it work?
MemoryPool is a smart contract on base, an Ethereum L2 and a web app.
A new user can sign in with their Stack Overflow or google account and a wallet will automatically linked to their account.
This user can now earn fees and buy tickets in ETH. Someone seeking help will search for experts in the relevant field, buy a ticket and ask a question in a private chat.
At any moment the user can cash out and withdraw their ETH to another wallet or they can export their private keys to fully control their wallet on any other web3 app.
In essence, MemoryPool is to Stack Overflow what OnlyFans is to Instagram.
An OnlyFans for geeks? Perhaps 😅.
Join us in reshaping the future of expertise monetisation.
Welcome to MemoryPool.