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Currently in the Spring Open lab and truly loved it so far, the mentors are great and it has been an awesome way to distract ourselves during COVID and working on something cool. It is really cool that Mozilla is conducting this program again in the summer. Shameless plug of what we have been working on https://twittersourcebot.tech/
Mozilla Builders is one of a kind incubator based around community. It has a Slack channel through which we can connect with other developers, designers, hackers to form teams and innovate together. I had 2 mentor meetings this week, great insight from them that help me further develop my project.
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I have built this in my spare time. https://epiphany.pub/post?refId=2684bc94f9fcb9ffe637ebfbeba2... I want to build a blogging/writing/learning experience with program-ability, and collaboration (version control). Is this the kind of idea you are looking for? The long term goal is defining an interactive file format that is suitable for data exploration and explanation.
hey billconan, cool site! yes these are definitely the projects we're looking for. one thing to note would be: who is your target audience? what we would like to see is a well defined target group and a product that meets that groups needs.
yes, what patrick said ^^, @billconan
We are working on video conferencing that enables privacy and anti-censorship.
The mentors are very encouraging and helpful, you can tell they have a background in starting projects and making them usable and adaptable to the greater audience. If you have a dusty side project, just waiting to become something great, this is the program to get advice and support.
Note: I doubt anyone will see this comment as HackerNews has shadow banned my account because my Open Source project competes with some of YC's investments (it undermines & destroys the need/market for some of their crypto-coin scams).
I interviewed with YC a few years ago and their entire process was terribly unprofessional - I've gone through 3 accelerator programs now, and interviewed at many more. YC itself seems pretty awesome, but beware of the politics - if a single person (HN mod in my case) feels like you are a threat to their status, that person has enough marketing power to hurt you. Find the GOOD people in YC and work with them, don't leave it to chance or you'll fall out of good graces.
In contrast, look what Mozilla is doing! They're helping move the internet (the world, the community) forward, and are a non-profit foundation. I highly recommend applying to their program. They are GOOD people, doing good work. Please please do everything you can to help them make this a success - the internet depends on it.
If it weren't for this program, I could not imagine that my first time stepping this deep into the thriving open source entrepreneurship scene would be possible during such unusual times.
I am a big fan personally of decentralized organizations and the growing dweb so I am on a team working on decentralizing video conferencing to help improve and secure one of the most important and fastest growing communication technologies now.