What does the interface look like while mentoring?
We're a match making service and that's it - profiles and messaging like Linkedin I guess. It's up to users how they connect with each whether it's through PM, voice, video etc.
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#32There's really not that much information about the service, which will immediately deter users who want to know if this is a tool worth exploring before investing the time to explore it. The [last YC startup class]( http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec07/ ) is a great resource for improving this. Also, in this age of hackers and god particles, you really should use SSL for apps like this.
Thanks. We'll take a look at the class and SSL is on our list!
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#33There's really not that much information about the service, which will immediately deter users who want to know if this is a tool worth exploring before investing the time to explore it. The [last YC startup class]( http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec07/ ) is a great resource for improving this. Also, in this age of hackers and god particles, you really should use SSL for apps like this.
my thoughts exactly. My UX: first thought - looks nice, ok so, I clicked on "I can help", which is just signup, ok well I want to know what I'm signing up for, do I earn money helping others, is it a time donation thing? so then I clicked on "about" which tells me nothing, then I just went away. I think the idea is interesting and with some more details I would have probably signed up. Also the "You believe in best p…
Yep, we need to explain it more. What do you mean "explicit support for the Hacker School Social Rule"?
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#34There's really not that much information about the service, which will immediately deter users who want to know if this is a tool worth exploring before investing the time to explore it. The [last YC startup class]( http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec07/ ) is a great resource for improving this. Also, in this age of hackers and god particles, you really should use SSL for apps like this.
my thoughts exactly. My UX: first thought - looks nice, ok so, I clicked on "I can help", which is just signup, ok well I want to know what I'm signing up for, do I earn money helping others, is it a time donation thing? so then I clicked on "about" which tells me nothing, then I just went away. I think the idea is interesting and with some more details I would have probably signed up. Also the "You believe in best p…
There are lots of small weirdnesses scattered around a website which doesn't really have much detail.
It's a good idea - I was thinking open code review would be a super useful thing for many people - but a demo of how it works in practice would be worth a thousand XP points.
I'd be deeply reassured if there was explicit support for the Hacker School Social Rules.
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#35I think this would be far more useful if it were based on other forms of domain knowledge. As the landing page shows, StackOverflow, etc. already exist. There's tons of online help for software development already. What is lacking is one-on-one assistance/short term consulting for software developers/entrepreneurs in other knowledge areas related to business development. Take the StackExchange concept to a new level…
They're good ideas there's several sites out there that cater for them. We don't want to charge. What's been built is from many customer segment interviews. We'll be improving on it over time of course.
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#36the problem with services like this is that once that issue is resolved, where is it going to be documented? I highly doubt that someone is going to take the time to enter in the question and solution somewhere for all to reference should they have the issue.
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#37I personally had situations where people mix up mentoring with do my work. I helped lot of people, out of those only one really worked as mentor-mentee, all others are like please have access to my computer and do it for me. I think your website will address that issue, where I can simply say, this is how it works, go and try. But, if it is FREE service, users may misuse (or) mentors may not spend enough time. There…
Thanks for your feedback. At this point mentors will have to manage their own time.
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#38the problem with services like this is that once that issue is resolved, where is it going to be documented? I highly doubt that someone is going to take the time to enter in the question and solution somewhere for all to reference should they have the issue. http://xkcd.com/979/
The 1st step is to match people up. Documentation can come later.
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#39"Stop wasting hours searching Stackoverflow..." Terrible choice for an opening phrase to your website. You are putting yourself in a position against SO which IMHO is one of the few websites that are actually really helpful for the community (definitely not a waste of time). My honest advice, don't get cocky... at least not so early.
That comes from months of research including customer discovery interviews. It's a fact that over 90% of new coders waste hours on Stackoverflow searching for answers.
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#40the problem with services like this is that once that issue is resolved, where is it going to be documented? I highly doubt that someone is going to take the time to enter in the question and solution somewhere for all to reference should they have the issue. http://xkcd.com/979/
The 1st step is to match people up. Documentation can come later.
that's the problem. later never happens. with SO the conversation becomes the documentation.