experty.io — get paid for your expertise
By: Mars Robertson
Tags: ICO, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Money, Blockchain

First impression — hell yeah, why not — I know some stuff — call me anytime…

Links:

Explainer:

How much should I charge?

Personal story

After working for so many years in London, at some point I was charging £500 + VAT per day. That’s a lot of money, especially given the fact my father was earning only $10 per month. Previously I didn’t disclose the actual amount — I wanted to avoid people being jealous, I wanted to avoid any drama. Instead I wrote 2 books on the subject:

Finding work in London: https://genesis.re/ksiazka/ Acquiring skills in the first place: https://github.com/stefek99/michalstefanow.com/blob/gh-pages/book/book.md (yeah, it’s on GitHub, anyone can edit)

For the working class upbringing money was good but at all times it seemed like I’m a commodity at the bottom of the pile. London has so much wealth, I’m pretty sure it is due to hundreds years of colonialism and exploitation. These days there are still places in London that no traditional job can finance — only successful business owners and rich families.

CEO

I met Kamil back in 2011 in some crazy circumstances. Want to hear the story? I’ll register on Experty and you’ll pay my rate…

New perspective, it’s a spherical photo, see it in 360 on FB.

He has software development company

He graduated from Asbiro Business School

He is super smart. High achiever.

And as I’m observing the progress

Industry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Helpouts

Google Helpouts was an online collaboration service from Google which launched in November 2013 and allowed users to share their expertise through live video and provide real-time help from their computers or mobile devices. As of April 20, 2015, Google closed Google Helpouts.

But they didn’t have blockchain, they didn’t have ICO.

I was never big fan of creating marketplaces — they require work on both sides.

Product

Team

They have been working together before: https://reactpoland.com/

Marketing strategy

Peer to peer referral, it just makes sense.

https://experty.io — currently I don’t my referral link yet, but soon you’ll be able to call me from there… Too bad my phone number is already in public, I don’t want to mess around, I much rather prefer people call me directly.

ICO structure

$9m cap.

Hype is real, it’s going to be sold out in the matter of seconds.

Previous examples: BAT (Basic Attention Token) and Decentraland (MANA) that were sold out in two blocks.

(or maybe you know of another crazy ICO that I’ve missed and was sold out in a single block)

Will Experty beat the record and be sold out in a single block?

I hope not, I hope there will be safety measures in place, there are some already:

proof of care

proof of love

individual cap

Success is everywhere

Taking responsibility for my actions.

2017 was a groundbreaking year.

Made some mistakes, another way of calling it would be “accelerated learning”. I could either give up (because I’ve the mistakes) or keep going… For obvious reasons I prefer to keep going, life is long!

Currently I’m based in London working with visionary David Siegiel on Pillar Wallet. The energy in the space overwhelming and I’m excited to co-create it!

Transparency

This post is part of the bounty campaign but I’d write it regardless.

At all times do your own research, it’s your money.

Sometimes I think — do you have to buy iPhone with Apple stock, do you shop on Amazon and pay with Amazon stock? There is no need for 1000s tokens… Payments can be done in an efficient way on Bitcoin network (lightning) and the way I see the ICO culture is an easy, permission less to access capital.

So be it, I participate in the game. It’s legitimate team, legitimate project.

Links again:

https://experty.io

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2337020.0

My BitcoinTalk profile if you want to connect with me: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=194164

ERC20 wallet:

0x0000000ed9aa4172a16c4f8178961ea6dcb6aac9

(it starts with many zeros, wanted to make it more memorable)