I'm confused: how is this a version of ASK HN? It's clearly an early beta deployment of a product from the TechStars startup Sponge <http://getsponge.com>. Considering all the activity in the Q&A space lately, this title seems unnecessarily hostile.

Your link unnecessarily got the closing ">" added to it, here's the working link: http://getsponge.com

Sponge is not a TechStars startup, you clearly didn't know.

This is a Great program. It puts people directly in touch with very interesting an helpful advisors, and lets you ask them quick one/two paragraph questions.

Then, it shares the advice out so everyone can benefit from it as well.

Not surprised to see this question, pretty surprised to see the answer (from David Cohen):

http://ask.techstars.org/what-if-we-outsourced-the-developme...

Take all those answers with a grain of salt. Remember: He's saying "Feel free to apply" That's the same as a loan officer at a bank. They'll tell you to apply for a loan even if you're unemployed and 100k in debt. That's no guarantee that the application will go anywhere, but they want to keep the pipeline full.

In this case I think it's fair to expect more. The best investors give quick "No"s, right?