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Re: Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack

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Post by Kudos »

napoleoncomplex wrote: post #25
Kudos wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's more than a little suspicious that I immediately got 5 down votes for my critical comment, but have since broken even on karma again. I'd like to think my further arguments below did it, but more likely this thread was posted in one of the hashtagstartup channels.

Don't usually do this, but I'll explain the downvotes (I've never heard of this project). Your original comment felt needlessly aggressive and had nothing to do with discussing the project's merits. The follow-on comments were in the same vein, and the entire comment thread felt like a flame war for no reason. So I downvoted because I wanted to signal that I'd like to read less content like that on here. I went and c…

You explained your downvote not the downvotes. 5 down within 5 minutes happens, but if it was that egregious the comment should not have recovered.

Re: Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack

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Post by akanet »

LeonPals wrote: post #28
meesterdude wrote: post #2

Pretty cool! I just signed up. I think its an interesting line of dialog to have going in the background, and am hopeful it will make the path to starting and running a startup clearer for me. The signup process is kinda neat, but some of the questions made me go "errr..." edit: i see they(you?) use typeform for the signup form; never heard of them before, but pretty neat!

Which made you go "errr..."? We try to get an idea of who a person is. Also, if they have founders in their network, or if they are just lazy and skip questions ;-)

All of the questions around "What can you bring to #startup?" or "What do you want from #startup" or "What #startup founder do you want to connect with" fell extremely flat with me - I abandoned the form.

I'm on the page because you posted it here, on HN, and I started the flow because the premise seemed interesting, and I have a startup. I don't have any goals, and frankly, the pitch made it sound like more value would be flowing from the community to me. I don't have goals I need met from #startup because I have no idea what it will be like.

Those questions made it seem like you guys are just in it for a PR grab or a pivot into an incubator, which I am absolutely not interested in at all.

Re: Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack

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Post by LeonPals »

petercooper wrote: post #30

I was ready to donate the €10 but found it just wants me to enter credit card details onto the application form and I was on a non-https page. It said it uses Stripe but it's tricky to tell if that's really the case (I don't believe there's bad intent here at all, but the UX for taking the payment doesn't inspire confidence).

We've heard this once before. And I totally get the concern. I'll make sure someone at Typeform hears about this, as they are on #startups. We'll embed stripe checkout on the homepage soon I guess. Thanks.

Re: Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack

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Post by davidw »

instakill wrote: post #29
davidw wrote: post #21

Speaking of #startups, that channel is free to join on irc.freenode.net.

Yeah no thanks. I've been on there a few times. That channel is filled with a bunch of sweary and self-centered people. It's probably the anonymity but I'd rather hang out in r/startups before I'd go back to the IRC chat.

It's got its plusses and minuses. People sometimes shoot the breeze rather than narrowly focus on the topic at hand, so yeah, sometimes there's a lot of noise compared to signal.

I prefer here, or, as of late, http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/ for more serious discussions, although occasionally something interesting comes up on #startups. Sometimes the informality is helpful, as you can chat about something you don't particularly want plastered all over HN...

Re: Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack

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Post by petercooper »

LeonPals wrote: post #33
petercooper wrote: post #30

I was ready to donate the €10 but found it just wants me to enter credit card details onto the application form and I was on a non-https page. It said it uses Stripe but it's tricky to tell if that's really the case (I don't believe there's bad intent here at all, but the UX for taking the payment doesn't inspire confidence).

We've heard this once before. And I totally get the concern. I'll make sure someone at Typeform hears about this, as they are on #startups. We'll embed stripe checkout on the homepage soon I guess. Thanks.

I have a Typeform account so I'm going to have a look at how it works :-) Assuming it's all good, I'll be back, because the ultimate idea sounds very appealing.

Re: Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack

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Post by hayksaakian »

LeonPals wrote: post #22
hayksaakian wrote: post #18

The concept of a global community of startup people is nice, but why do I have to use your platform to be a part of it? That question felt unanswered to me after 60 seconds on the landing page.

You don't have to become a member of our community, but I might be able to give you a couple of reasons why it is what it is today, if you can let me know which one we should put up on the page according to you? - hosted/organised by an independent non-profit with the goal to help founders - using slack, easy and unobtrusive cross platform system - members are selected upon their motivation Or because it already exis…

I mean in my mind I'm comparing it to a well moderated IRC channel.

Is there a technical limitation of IRC you're overcoming or is it a user interface choice?

Re: Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack

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Post by michaelmcmillan »

instakill wrote: post #29
davidw wrote: post #21

Speaking of #startups, that channel is free to join on irc.freenode.net.

Yeah no thanks. I've been on there a few times. That channel is filled with a bunch of sweary and self-centered people. It's probably the anonymity but I'd rather hang out in r/startups before I'd go back to the IRC chat.

I often find that with most irc channels.

Re: Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack

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Post by danmaz74 »

LeonPals wrote: post #26
danmaz74 wrote: post #17

Cool! Shameless plug: If you're interested in the actual hashtag on Twitter, you could like to use of our free embeds: http://hashtagify.me/explorer/embed_wizard?hashtags=startup&... Also let me know if you'd like to get detailed analysis of the #startup hashtag, I'd gladly contribute it for free.

Ha, that could be cool to share with the group :) Could you send me the detailed analysis on hello startupfoundation co ?

Just sent it - let me know if you get it (you never know with the spam filters).

Re: Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack

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Post by roosmaa »

petercooper wrote: post #30

I was ready to donate the €10 but found it just wants me to enter credit card details onto the application form and I was on a non-https page. It said it uses Stripe but it's tricky to tell if that's really the case (I don't believe there's bad intent here at all, but the UX for taking the payment doesn't inspire confidence).

The form is hosted on Typeform which is served over https. But since it is embedded via an iframe, the secure connection is not communicated to the user by the browser.

So your data is safe, however, I do agree that https for hashtagstartup.co would clear up the confusion.

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