Baxter and his team of 25 are trying to transform the way people share knowledge online with Nashville-based Moontoast. The privately funded site is essentially a marketplace of human knowledge allowing experts in any field to teach online sessions to knowledge or talent seekers, making it simple for even Baxter himself to give online guitar lessons to anyone in the world.
Moontoast is primarily designed around the experts' needs and allows them to create a profile, list their expertise, host online video and chat sessions, set their rates, receive payment for services, and essentially create an online office space for teaching. People searching for help, training, tutorials, and anything else can use the site to find the teacher of their choice and view how other pupils have rated that individual.
Moontoast does an amazing job at delivering a marketplace that is tailored to their specific mission and audience. Not only can experts conduct a video and chat session right on the site to share their wisdom or talent, but they can also take advantage of the calendar to indicate to potential students when they're available, as well as accept and view new appointments with little to no hassle.
The site also employs a handful of people, called Moontoast Explorers, who will be scouring the site for the best experts to display on the home page, which will also highlight the most iconic and altruistic experts. Explorers will also be tasked with satisfying user demands for specific expertise and encouraging talented professionals to start using the site.
We think Moontoast does a fantastic job at creating an online educational space and essentially tackles the challenges that people have been rudimentarily working around with VoiP clients like Skype. The guys behind the site seem to have a clear passion and purpose for harnessing the world's knowledge for good, and we look forward to seeing the site evolve.
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