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Re: Show HN: A platform for women to crowd-source advice in confidence

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Is it only for biological women? Can someone who identifies as a woman use this platform? I don't see any information on the site. Does this platform foster inclusiveness or exclusiveness?

Hi Rinchik, we have an LGBTQ group on Shello so we welcome anyone who identifies as a woman.

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It says you can remain anonymous, so what's to stop men from joining? Is it moderated?... Just seems like a sexist forum...

Hi gitgud, you can choose to post your questions anonymously but you still have to sign up with a real and validated profile. We find that only 20% of posts are anonymous and the remainder women are posting openly as themselves. We only allow the person posting anonymously to stay anonymous in that conversation. But no-one is allowed to answer a post anonymously. We use real names and real photos too.

Re: Show HN: A platform for women to crowd-source advice in confidence

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Hey, good work I think to have everything in one place is better. I saw it’s not your first startup you built another app before (citysocializer). Two questions: How many members do you have on Shello and do you think your crowdsourced advices could be available on the web soon or you plan to keep them in a private sphere?

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Hey, good work I think to have everything in one place is better. I saw it’s not your first startup you built another app before (citysocializer). Two questions: How many members do you have on Shello and do you think your crowdsourced advices could be available on the web soon or you plan to keep them in a private sphere?

Thanks seapunk, yes my passion and background is building communities. We just came out of closed beta last month and have a couple thousand users who are highly engaged. Good question and something we’re still thinking about. If we do release our content on web it will be just that ie. no user data exposed and no planned web experience.

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Looks cool. It is all forum based advice or can you message privately?

Thanks Julian, yea you can message privately for one to one conversations. It’s something being used a lot and helping women to connect more personally

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Nice Work! Where did you get your first users? Does the platform cater for non-english speakers?

Thanks jirenandcell. We invited some of our female community from citysocializer initially, then got a whole bunch of new users from product hunt and then it's been through word of mouth referrals. Right now its only in English and majority of our userbase is US and UK, but we will look to implement more languages as we grow.

Re: Show HN: A platform for women to crowd-source advice in confidence

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I don't get it, what problem is this app solving by excluding men from giving or asking for advice as well?

Hey blueadept11, women have very different experiences and challenges to men when it comes to most aspects of their lives, from careers, to body matters and relationships. So the advice we look for and share is often only relevant to other women. The way we talk in person with other women can be different to how we talk in public, much more personal way. So Shello aims to be bring that intimacy and freedom to talk an…

That's quite a leap from saying that certain topics are only relevant for women to saying that it's about freedom. Nobody is preventing women from talking about these topics in any other forum. You're saying that the advantage of perceived intimacy is greater than the disadvantage of losing the broader perspective that includes men. If I was in a bad mood, I'd say it's classic ingroup/outgroup psychology, which is latently ugly.

But I'm in a good mood, so I'll only say that there's nothing intimate about an environment where everyone is anonymous.

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