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Hey there! The interviews in the emails are mostly just to inspire your next project or business. They serve as a good starting point for learning more about i

Hey there! The interviews in the emails are mostly just to inspire your next project or business. They serve as a good starting point for learning more about industry challenges you might not know about. With that said, I have successfully connected about 1/3rd of the devs who wanted to get in touch with the submitter. There is no expectation of either party needing to do that though.

saganus 10y ago
Excellent, thanks!
morgante 10y ago
The fact that your connection rate is so low concerns me. Have you done some analysis on it? If these are real problems your submitters have, they should be very eager to talk to someone who might solve it for them. The fact that they don't seem to be is a major red flag.
- saganus 10y ago
  I would guess that just getting a random problem to solve might not be appealing to all devs. On the other hand, maybe some people are having problems that may have already a close-enough solution so that why would I want to build yet another one, or maybe some are so hard to implement or would require too much effort that they don't get any interest from devs. Pretty often when I meet someone and tell them what I do for a living they start giving me all these ideas that I should be obviously doing because they are so great and no one has solved that before, or they ask me if I would know how to solve this 'simple' problem of theirs, only to have them be surprised when I tell them how much it would cost to develop an app that has offline-sync capabilities, social media features, stores pictures 'for free', etc so that they can manage their neighborhood gardens or their pottery class (hint: I'm not doing it for 500 dollars). I'm guessing some of that could be happening here if the problems-to-solve are not curated by estimated development cost or by simplicity. Of course, I'm not the OP so it's just a wild guess :)
  - morgante 10y ago
    The problem isn't on the dev side. The devs are the ones reaching out and requesting a connection—it's the submitters who aren't following through.
    - saganus 10y ago
      Ah. I misunderstood then I think. It makes more sense that way actually.
timborden 10y ago
Interesting idea...thanks for sharing. Is it always one to one? ...would be good if the problem could be confirmed with other users

saganus 10y ago

Excellent, thanks!

morgante 10y ago

The fact that your connection rate is so low concerns me. Have you done some analysis on it? If these are real problems your submitters have, they should be very eager to talk to someone who might solve it for them. The fact that they don't seem to be is a major red flag.

saganus 10y ago
I would guess that just getting a random problem to solve might not be appealing to all devs. On the other hand, maybe some people are having problems that may have already a close-enough solution so that why would I want to build yet another one, or maybe some are so hard to implement or would require too much effort that they don't get any interest from devs. Pretty often when I meet someone and tell them what I do for a living they start giving me all these ideas that I should be obviously doing because they are so great and no one has solved that before, or they ask me if I would know how to solve this 'simple' problem of theirs, only to have them be surprised when I tell them how much it would cost to develop an app that has offline-sync capabilities, social media features, stores pictures 'for free', etc so that they can manage their neighborhood gardens or their pottery class (hint: I'm not doing it for 500 dollars). I'm guessing some of that could be happening here if the problems-to-solve are not curated by estimated development cost or by simplicity. Of course, I'm not the OP so it's just a wild guess :)
- morgante 10y ago
  The problem isn't on the dev side. The devs are the ones reaching out and requesting a connection—it's the submitters who aren't following through.
  - saganus 10y ago
    Ah. I misunderstood then I think. It makes more sense that way actually.

timborden 10y ago

Interesting idea...thanks for sharing. Is it always one to one? ...would be good if the problem could be confirmed with other users