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How about someone make a marketplace for this exact sort of thing? "Contact Y for $X now!"

There was a start-up here in the UK working on this, can't remember the name. The model was a bit different as the money went to charity of the contactee's choosing. So they themselves didn't make money off of it, it was just a filter to weed out time wasters. The thinking was that this also made the busy important contactee more likely to take it seriously.

Not sure what happened with it though, this was several years ago

Clarity.fm uses phone calls in a similar idea.

Someone has built that and posted it here a few weeks ago, I can't for the life of me remember the name though. To get around transaction laws they had "credits" though, so you couldn't cash out which sorta killed the idea for me. I'll try and find the post.

transaction laws? You can't send someone money to talk to them?

I can't find the link now, I've been through every Show HN from the last 3 weeks and I can't find it. I distinctly remember it said something along the lines of, "due to transaction laws your coins can only be donated to charity" or something. Maybe that was how they make money; people forget about their "coins" and "charity". Hopefully someone else remembers it, all I can remember is:

Weird name. 3 founders. Video presentation at some sort of incubator (maybe techstars?) and they had a... brown website? I think it was brown.

This might be what you're talking about https://www.gramicon.com/pages/howto, it was posted on HN a while ago

http://oneleap.to/ - social enterprise spin on the idea, you pay to charity to get your message through.

I think that's what he's trying to set up, because there's no way this is worth his time if he's actually being thoughtful about each message.

Ah, ic. Maybe this is a way of beta-testing a larger roll out?

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