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Nreduce online incubator shuts down

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Re: Nreduce online incubator shuts down

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Post by rohitv »

Website is down, but here is the email I received from one of the co-founders:

Hi

This is Joe, one of the people who worked to build nReduce last year.

I am writing today to thank you.

In traveling the world, I got to experience startup people's genuine desire to help each other. It is an amazing and beautiful thing and I want to thank you for being a part of creating it.

If I can be of help in the future, please let me know.

Best, -Joe

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And please join me in thanking some of the awesome people who built nReduce

Josh Schwartzman, Jacques Crocker, Ash Bhoopathy , Richard Lengsavath, Raemond Bergstrom-Wood, Clifton Fletemeyer, Elliot Glasenk, Shaf Choudry, Paul Eikelenboom, Louis Sayers, David A. Johnston, Erin Parker, Marcus Smith, John Sechrest, Eze Vidra, Daniel Kehoe, Scott Robertson, David Nagy, Jack Lin, Sam Schillace, Mahesh Bhatia and so many more.

We open sourced the nReduce code here. (You can build on Josh's brilliance)

Want to work on the opensource nReduce? Email me

Awesome other people that are working to help startups :

Angel List - Keeps rockin it F6S.com - Helping Founders Startitup.co - Startup methodology Zana Project - Advice from experts StartupWeekend - Weekend as a Founder Hippflow - Helping Fundraise CofoundersLab - Introing Co-Founders

Re: Nreduce online incubator shuts down

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Post by gamerDude »

When nReduce started, it was actually really cool. I think a big problem they had was changing a small piece of user feedback that was a slight pain point, but not a major one.

Everyone used to check in on Wednesdays and many were, week after week. They changed it so you could choose whenever you want, and all the teams in my group disappeared. It went from a vibrant Wednesday to dead every day. It was incredibly sad as everyone lost touch with each other.

While it was slightly annoying that I couldn't choose the day, it was working. Its one of those things where when you have a deadline many people will make it, when its flexible, it suddenly becomes really hard.

Re: Nreduce online incubator shuts down

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Post by yesimahuman »

nReduce inspired a local weekly startup meetup I started called iterators. Really, I wanted the weekly check in aspect more than anything. It's interesting the bonds that form when you meet more than monthly.

It's too bad to see it gone, but it had an impact, and that's great. There will be others that come and go.

Re: Nreduce online incubator shuts down

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Post by fouc »

rohitv wrote: post #3

Website is down, but here is the email I received from one of the co-founders: Hi This is Joe, one of the people who worked to build nReduce last year. I am writing today to thank you. In traveling the world, I got to experience startup people's genuine desire to help each other. It is an amazing and beautiful thing and I want to thank you for being a part of creating it. If I can be of help in the future, please let…

I assume this is the source code? https://github.com/joemellin/nReduce

Re: Nreduce online incubator shuts down

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Post by fouc »

gamerDude wrote: post #4

When nReduce started, it was actually really cool. I think a big problem they had was changing a small piece of user feedback that was a slight pain point, but not a major one. Everyone used to check in on Wednesdays and many were, week after week. They changed it so you could choose whenever you want, and all the teams in my group disappeared. It went from a vibrant Wednesday to dead every day. It was incredibly sad…

Good idea. Anyone want to take the opensource code, launch a new site, and fix the check-in day?

Re: Nreduce online incubator shuts down

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Post by [deleted] »

fouc wrote: post #8
gamerDude wrote: post #4

When nReduce started, it was actually really cool. I think a big problem they had was changing a small piece of user feedback that was a slight pain point, but not a major one. Everyone used to check in on Wednesdays and many were, week after week. They changed it so you could choose whenever you want, and all the teams in my group disappeared. It went from a vibrant Wednesday to dead every day. It was incredibly sad…

Good idea. Anyone want to take the opensource code, launch a new site, and fix the check-in day?

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Re: Nreduce online incubator shuts down

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Post by mindcrime »

fouc wrote: post #8
gamerDude wrote: post #4

When nReduce started, it was actually really cool. I think a big problem they had was changing a small piece of user feedback that was a slight pain point, but not a major one. Everyone used to check in on Wednesdays and many were, week after week. They changed it so you could choose whenever you want, and all the teams in my group disappeared. It went from a vibrant Wednesday to dead every day. It was incredibly sad…

Good idea. Anyone want to take the opensource code, launch a new site, and fix the check-in day?

I might be interested in helping with something like that. Shoot me an email offline if you'd like.

Would it be worth setting up a quick Google Group or something, for interested parties to communicate with each other?

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