There’s been no shortage of Q&A websites in the internet’s relatively short history, but most of them are pretty ineffective, believes Peter Yeargin, a senior manager for systems engineering at Cisco.

Some might help you get a quick answer to your inquiry, like Yahoo Answers or Ask.com, or help you find a home project expert, like Angie’s List, but it’s hard to test the validity of the information or source. And for the folks who spend lots of their spare time answering questions, there’s not a ton of incentive or reward for doing so. It’s a reality Yeargin realized one year when he came across a complicated question while doing his taxes (albeit at the last minute, like most of us).

“Of course it’s tax time, so I can’t find an appointment with a CPA, and I thought to myself, ‘It would be nice if there was somewhere I could go to get a few minutes with a specialist in this field,'” he said. “And I would pay a little bit of money to get this one-off question answered.”

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