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Leap Spins out of YC
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#12Hi! Leap is spinning out of YC today as an independent company called Elpha. I'm the CEO and Co-Founder of Elpha and am here to answer questions. Thanks!!
Congrats and good luck!
Two questions:
Would it be helpful for women in tech in Brazil? (wondering if I should refer it to my colleagues here)
Is it for profit or non-profit organization now?
Re: Leap Spins out of YC
#13Hi! Leap is spinning out of YC today as an independent company called Elpha. I'm the CEO and Co-Founder of Elpha and am here to answer questions. Thanks!!
Congrats and good luck! Two questions: Would it be helpful for women in tech in Brazil ? (wondering if I should refer it to my colleagues here) Is it for profit or non-profit organization now?
Thank you! And yes, many of our members are based outside of the US, and we'd love to have more international members to broaden the perspective and discussion topics.
And we're a for-profit company. :)
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
FYI, the link in your profile to http://elpha.com/invitations/join-hn does not appear to be working.
thank you! It should be: http://elpha.com/invite/join-hn Just fixed it.
That page says "Hi there! Join, the springboard for women to excel in tech." It's probably supposed to say "Join Elpha, the..."
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#15The literary typeface for a UGC site is a bold design choice. On its own it suggests static content and lack of community, but then that's balanced by all the social flair on the AMA cards so I think it works. But very tricky to pull off. :-)
It's interesting in general that the design language for signaling "for women" (and "exclusive") is so incongruous with the design language of UGC.
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#16The literary typeface for a UGC site is a bold design choice. On its own it suggests static content and lack of community, but then that's balanced by all the social flair on the AMA cards so I think it works. But very tricky to pull off. :-) It's interesting in general that the design language for signaling "for women" (and "exclusive") is so incongruous with the design language of UGC.
I really like the typeface, it’s one of the first things I noticed.
It‘s Chiswick Sans, by the way: https://commercialtype.com/catalog/chiswick_sans
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#18The literary typeface for a UGC site is a bold design choice. On its own it suggests static content and lack of community, but then that's balanced by all the social flair on the AMA cards so I think it works. But very tricky to pull off. :-) It's interesting in general that the design language for signaling "for women" (and "exclusive") is so incongruous with the design language of UGC.
Hi, designer/cofounder of Elpha here. Thank you for the comment! It is tricky to design a UGC site for women, and we aim for friendliness/neutral than feminine. Glad you like Chiswick!
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#19The literary typeface for a UGC site is a bold design choice. On its own it suggests static content and lack of community, but then that's balanced by all the social flair on the AMA cards so I think it works. But very tricky to pull off. :-) It's interesting in general that the design language for signaling "for women" (and "exclusive") is so incongruous with the design language of UGC.
I really like the typeface, it’s one of the first things I noticed. It‘s Chiswick Sans, by the way: https://commercialtype.com/catalog/chiswick_sans
Happy to hear that! :)
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#20The literary typeface for a UGC site is a bold design choice. On its own it suggests static content and lack of community, but then that's balanced by all the social flair on the AMA cards so I think it works. But very tricky to pull off. :-) It's interesting in general that the design language for signaling "for women" (and "exclusive") is so incongruous with the design language of UGC.
Hi, designer/cofounder of Elpha here. Thank you for the comment! It is tricky to design a UGC site for women, and we aim for friendliness/neutral than feminine. Glad you like Chiswick!
Yeah I think neutral has gotten a lot easier to pull off in the last five years just because of all the design resources put out by Google, Apple, and MS. Even though I don't like Material as a strict design language, just the fact that it's clearly explained and all the resources behind it are free is a much better starting point than being more limited to reverse engineering existing sites and picking up their biases along the way.