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Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by _tlf7 »

I've been working with a team of four amazing women on Glassbreakers - a mentorship platform for women. Glassbreakers connects women in the workforce who can help each other. Our minimal lovable product is a mentor matching service for women based on skill sets. Ie imagine an OKCupid for women in the work force. We've built a content publishing platform to inspire our community as well as a forum network for women to publicly or anonymously crowd source career advice.

Glassbreakers is focused on solving the problem of gender disparity in the global work force. Our platform is gender gated to insure women in business will have a safe place on the Internet to talk about work. Finding a female mentor is hard so we're automating the process of connecting women with other women who we know can help each other with their careers. Mentorship comes in many sizes. With Glassbreakers, we're facilitating mentorship both online via our forums and content as well as offline via our mentor matching service in an effort to make mentor relationships more casual and skill based.

We're applying to YC's winter batch so we can launch our product as soon as possible. We already have 1,000 women signed up for beta and enterprise customers interested in using our tool for their organizations. Tell your female colleagues and friends to sign up for beta at www.glassbreakers.co.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by _tlf7 »

ashraful wrote: post #99
syed123 wrote: post #89

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Hey guys! I'm the founder of http://LetsLunch.com we still have the automatching feature which schedules your lunches two days in advance. infact it is the most popular feature on our site. We do have a mobile app coming up in few weeks that will have same day matches and other geolocation/mobile based stuff. Good to see other sites coming up in this field.

Oh sorry, I never used letslunch and always thought you needed to request lunches with people. Glad to know the automatching is a popular feature, since that is what my entire product is. Any thoughts or advice on HackerLunch? I'm sure you have a lot of interesting insights into the space since you guys have been doing it so long.

I'm in a similar space as the founder of Glassbreakers. We're automating the process of connecting women who can mentor each other. We should all lunch -

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by zkirill »

_tlf7 wrote: post #111

I've been working with a team of four amazing women on Glassbreakers - a mentorship platform for women. Glassbreakers connects women in the workforce who can help each other. Our minimal lovable product is a mentor matching service for women based on skill sets. Ie imagine an OKCupid for women in the work force. We've built a content publishing platform to inspire our community as well as a forum network for women to…

This is great! Best of luck. Can men help and, if so, in what ways?

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by _tlf7 »

zkirill wrote: post #114
_tlf7 wrote: post #111

I've been working with a team of four amazing women on Glassbreakers - a mentorship platform for women. Glassbreakers connects women in the workforce who can help each other. Our minimal lovable product is a mentor matching service for women based on skill sets. Ie imagine an OKCupid for women in the work force. We've built a content publishing platform to inspire our community as well as a forum network for women to…

This is great! Best of luck. Can men help and, if so, in what ways?

Thanks! Right now this product is just for women. We really want to make a safe place for women to self publish via our content platform and post anonymous questions on our forums amongst a strictly female audience in the hopes to narrow troll behavior. We're even targeting our beta communities based on industry so we can test the mentor matching product in more concentrated subgroups. Audiences and products always have the possibility of change though. For now please just tell your female friends and colleagues to sign up and we'll be sure to connect them with some amazing local women with shared career passions.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by buttscicles »

I've been working writing a Python API client for the undocumented web APIs being used by Microsoft on the Xbox one. It came about as I wanted to work with the game clips people have been recording but didn't want to give passwords to the only other similar project I'm aware of, who turned it into a webservice and charge per usage.

It's MIT licenced, repo https://github.com/buttscicles/xbox

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by DanBC »

_tlf7 wrote: post #115
zkirill wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is great! Best of luck. Can men help and, if so, in what ways?

Thanks! Right now this product is just for women. We really want to make a safe place for women to self publish via our content platform and post anonymous questions on our forums amongst a strictly female audience in the hopes to narrow troll behavior. We're even targeting our beta communities based on industry so we can test the mentor matching product in more concentrated subgroups. Audiences and products always h…

> a strictly female audience in the hopes to narrow troll behavior

Be interesting to see if it works.

One of these trolls making threats of sexual violence was a woman: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/10595669/Twitt...

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by hunvreus »

mkdir_home wrote: post #106
hunvreus wrote: post #54

http://devo.ps - Making dealing with servers not suck. Want a new box on Digital Ocean with NGINX + Node.js + Redis? A few lines of YAML, git add/commit/push and you're done. You can use your EC2, Rackspace, Linode or Digital Ocean account, and you manage everything (servers and automation) in Git. To illustrate my point: - Adding a simple NGINX server using the Web UI: http://docs.devo.ps/how-to/add-a-server/ - The…

It is hard for me to read the grey text on the white background, maybe darken it up a little?

I'm redoing the site and this won't be grey anymore.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

#119

Post by _tlf7 »

DanBC wrote: post #117
_tlf7 wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Right now this product is just for women. We really want to make a safe place for women to self publish via our content platform and post anonymous questions on our forums amongst a strictly female audience in the hopes to narrow troll behavior. We're even targeting our beta communities based on industry so we can test the mentor matching product in more concentrated subgroups. Audiences and products always h…

> a strictly female audience in the hopes to narrow troll behavior Be interesting to see if it works. One of these trolls making threats of sexual violence was a woman: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/10595669/Twitt...

We have a community moderator and strict guidelines to insure Glassbreakers is a safe place for women. Women.com is also gender gated and thus far, it's been full of really great conversations absent from trolls. Of course, both men and women can be trolls or write threatening things online. However, the vast majority of threats of violence or misogynistic rhetoric in online forums does stem from men. Check out #feminism on quora- total nightmare.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Post by syed123 »

_tlf7 wrote: post #112
ashraful wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh sorry, I never used letslunch and always thought you needed to request lunches with people. Glad to know the automatching is a popular feature, since that is what my entire product is. Any thoughts or advice on HackerLunch? I'm sure you have a lot of interesting insights into the space since you guys have been doing it so long.

I'm in a similar space as the founder of Glassbreakers. We're automating the process of connecting women who can mentor each other. We should all lunch -

Sure..we should all lunch.. how does october 1st sounds like for lunch at plants restaurant in financial district.
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