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Re: Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor

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Post by goatcurious »

GreyZephyr wrote: post #29

I love the idea. Yours is the first social network style site that I have joined. I do however, have a couple of comments and thoughts about the site. Firstly, when I sign up and am filling out the form, I didn't see any warning that my profile and request were immediately going to be published on the front page with no apparent way to edit the request. I spent some time clicking around trying to find out how to edit…

Thanks for the thoughtful comments! A bit of oversight on our part about the advice requests. We'll fix the flow for posting it.

We will clean up and categorize the advice requests. You are absolutely on point on discoverability. We are experimenting with the concept of affinities, where based on your affiliations, you get more or less access to mentors. Trick is in defining these affiliations correctly.

Thanks so much for the encouragement! Look forward to interacting more. (p.s. drop me a message at Mentii so I know who you are -- https://mentii.com/mentor/sumit.suman)

Re: Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor

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Post by msutherl »

lsc wrote: post #19
msutherl wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is so true, but I think a lot of people haven't had the opportunity to find good role-models in life and something like this could be a first step in the right direction. The brilliant can be left to blaze their own obscure bildungsroman.

I think the previous comment was talking about the mentors not having time to go through an open-application process, not the people looking for mentors.

Great mentors don't have time, but less-than-great mentors do, and they are good enough for the target audience of Mentii.

Re: Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor

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Post by nitinpande »

rjtavares wrote: post #42
pavlov wrote: post #41

On seeing the name Mentii, my first association was with lying rather than mentoring because "menti" in French means "lied" (as in "j'ai menti" -- "I lied" ). That aside, great service!

Same for Portuguese.

Oh wow .. never knew that. Thanks for letting us know.

Re: Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor

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Post by nitinpande »

pyvek wrote: post #40

Great platform. I already got someone to guide me. :) Is there any difference between the normal messages and the "Request Meeting" feature?

The request meeting sends 3 specific times for the other person to accept one, thus making it easier to setup a meeting with them.

Re: Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor

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Post by lsc »

msutherl wrote: post #52
lsc wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the previous comment was talking about the mentors not having time to go through an open-application process, not the people looking for mentors.

Great mentors don't have time, but less-than-great mentors do, and they are good enough for the target audience of Mentii.

most of my mentorship relationships (on both ends) have involved some sort of business relationship; in many ways, that makes it less weird?
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