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raybb
How many ducks do you currently have?
tga
The duck pool auto-scales to meet the demand, of course.
kinduff
Had a similar idea a while ago but correct me if I'm wrong, this service sets you up on a call with a rubber duck (an image I suppose) for x time? Are you using Google Hangouts API?
tga
Thanks for the comment, sounds like I should revise the text. You actually get a real human (ahem, duck), even one that can code and ask questions about what you are doing, and potentially help debug the problem.
WorldMaker
Now I'm disappointed, I was hoping for actual rubber ducks as a service. Find a nice pond or interior fountain. Fill it with rubber ducks. Add tracking cameras to track a random one for the length of a call. Soothing, random bobbing.
fenwick67
Wow I literally had no idea that you were actually pairing people up with real people, I thought it was a duck too (or some 3d animated thing).
cabaalis
#1- I've found that rubber ducky problems get solved fairly quickly.. but I can't schedule a duck until 3 days out as of 9/1 2:15 PM CST.

#2- If you won't sign a custom NDA, I would certainly feel better if you presented me with a stock NDA that all of your ducks have agreed to.

Edit: #3- To protect yourself and your customers I'd suggest that you make sure you have a no-PHI and no-real-payment-info (PCI) requirement :)

bdcravens
So it's CodeMentor.io / HackHands? Without NDAs or live chat or ....?
fiatjaf
Well, have you tried using Codementor or Hackhands? It's so horrible I think this will hardly be worse or even equal.
bdcravens
Yes, I have used both, though as mentor, not a mentee. I think there's a set of features that each offers that I'd consider minimal features in a similar product offering, and I'm not seeing those in Duck.
joshumax
I'm actually a little bit sad because I thought booking a duck would start some two-way WebRTC session between me and a live stream of an actual rubber duck...
meesterdude
yup - this is exactly what I thought! But I guess someone who can actually help with the problem is ok too.
redgetan
Interesting project, but I feel like it's asking too many things upfront. I'd rather just put my email, the description of problem I need help with, and hit send.
osrec
Looks interesting. Can you explain in a little more detail how your pricing works please? Thanks!
JCharante
Dissapointed you don't get actual rubber ducks. I wish there was a rubberduckasaservice.com