If Jelly, Clarity, and Path Talk had a baby, it would be Fountain (ok, maybe that's a stretch). They just announced $4M in funding from Shasta and First Round, starting with a focus on home and garden but you can imagine this expanding to other categories like health/fitness, sports, art, etc. They're taking registrations for early access now. h/t @sarahbuhr via her TC write-up this morning.

Really neat concept. Pricing also sounds low enough for anyone to give it a try. Look forward to giving it a try. Wondering how these guys will vet experts in so many different areas of expertise? Also, are the experts insured through fountain so if they give advise and something gets ruin or explodes that no one gets sued? Just thinking of questions about water heaters and leaking gas, toilets and flooding, lawn mowers and engines, fitness and bad form, that kinda stuff.

This looks really well thought through and the execution seems to be spot on. There's a ton of noise in the 'Answers On Demand' space so their positioning makes sense right away.

Glad to be spotted on Product Hunt. We've been working for almost a year on the deep natural language processing to understand questions, the skills implicit in solving those questions, and how those skills connect to various experts.

Just a reminder that the beta opens up Saturday at 9:00am ET. You can play around with the app before then (unless you're wait listed), but there may not be any experts online until Saturday. Still fun to mess around with the NLP.

Be among the first 200 to hit https://www.fountain.com/?ref=pr... and bypass the waitlist! Keep in mind Fountain experts are slated to come online at 6am Pacific this Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014.