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Cool Idea, as someone who's worked on a lot of ideas, getting feedback from users can be a laborious process. I think you're trying to solve a good problem, however the issue I think you may run into is people willing to pay for it. I also don't care about what experts feedback have on my product, I care about the target customer. Their feedback is much more valuable since they'd be the ones paying for it.

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I feel the same. I'm much more interested in collecting a wide range of opinions from a big group of users from my broad niche (software developers, in my case) than I am in one or two experts who may or may not be my target audience.

I can imagine the situation where you would want an expert, but for me that would be more when I'm trying to fix a specific issue (users don't convert well on page X), and I don't have a specific problem. Right now I mainly want feedback to validate my core concept, and really that needs a certain volume of opinions.

OP, I'd suggest splitting the pricing: $X for an expert opinion (I think you could go quite a way above the current $5 here), or $Y for N opinions from random people who might fit my niche (you'd need some broad categories somehow though).

Yeah, that's true... (We have a lot of software developers as experts too haha ;)).

I will think in your idea of splitting the price. The true is that "in a way" I did (you can buy specific experts) but some people say to me that the price is too low... But it's hard for me to upraise the price without any sell :S

Thanks!

Thanks for your feedback. It's true that the target customer is more important, but I thought that maybe experts could help to reach it (marketing experts, grow experts, etc.). But I was thinking to implement something like a landing bot for the targeted website or surveys... I will think about it, because there are a lot of competence in this field (targeted surveys, bots, X users reviews for Y, etc.). But thanks!

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