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HN Review: Become a mentor, find a mentor.
Just finished a side project of mine: an app that matches you with a sort of "work-out buddy" where you each do weekly reviews of each others' progress on goals.
I tried to make the site extremely simple and easy to use, though there may be a few bugs in it, I'd like to invite the HN community to give it a spin and share their thoughts.
A quick disclaimer; any info you elect to enter is only semi-available to other users during the searching phase. After you confirm a match, only your match (or mentor) will see your info. You can delete your account or sever your match at anytime.
http://everymentor.com/ (as in, everyone mentors!)
- greenlblue 16y agoPretty neat project. I just signed up and I noticed a little typo. When choosing experience level for matches it says "I would not mind helping someone with less _experienced_".
- bryanh 16y agoDuly noted. Thank you.
- MartinMond 16y agoThis is awesome. There's only one thing missing. I have lots of experience with programming, but little in Marketing and Startups. So while I absolutely want to mentor someone who's interested in programming, I'm not capable of mentoring someone in Marketing/Startups.
- bryanh 16y agoYes, I totally agree. The reasons why I left that out are numerous, but two are: (1) the extra time required to programming something like that (2) our concept of "mentoring" is more like a workout buddy and less about experience and skill (although I left those metrics in mainly for end-user filtering purposes).
- jeffepp 16y agoVery cool, going to sign up now. This is the type of app that could benefit 99% of us here - bravo!
- bryanh 16y agoThanks! Reading HN inspired it 100%.
- jeffepp 16y agoEven better than I imagined when I initially read your comments! I have already: 1) signed up; 2) created a profile; and 3) requested a mentor. Super-fast and very easy.
- scorchin 16y agoClickable link: http://everymentor.com/ http://everymentor.com/
- p206 16y agoGreat idea, signed up right away. When setting up your account, selecting how much experience you have is a little confusing in my opinion: I have been a "professional" software developer for a few years, but still early in my career. Should I select "professional experience" or "little/some/average experience"?
- bryanh 16y agoThis was mainly an issue of semantics (suggestions on wording appreciated). Just imagine them in order of least-to-most.
- p206 16y agoWell, I would remove the "professional experience" option. That's what confused me. Without it you still have 6 levels of granularity, that ought to be enough for anybody :)
- whimsy 16y agoIt would be nice to be able to filter people based on some sort of tag. For example, I'm interested in learning programming in Python, but not programming in Lisp right now. For Design, I guess this might involve the tools they use? Photoshop, InDesign, etc. (This might be a gibberish example - I'm not a designer.) It took me a little bit to figure out that I could see the bios of other people by hovering over their name. It might be beneficial to add a default tooltip to those without something entered... something like "This user has a blank bio." It would also be good to provide a hint that that hover information is there - I did not expect it and only found it by accident.
- bryanh 16y agoChange made.
- omnipresent1 16y agoGood job. I had posted something similar to this idea on HN idea spreadsheet https://spreadsheets.google.com/lv?key=tOGIddn3rPdqKbHWsqaWbiw https://spreadsheets.google.com/lv?key=tOGIddn3rPdqKbHWsqaWb... I never got around to doing it. But I've signed up for your project!
- zmmz 16y agoWow, this thing looks great. Do you think you could make it so that for those not located in the states they would have the option of entering at least the city name? I'm in Europe and hence do not have a zip code. If anybody would like to help me overcome my griefs about not knowing how to code while working in IT, I would appreciate a mentor. My username is the same here and one everymentor. Finally, I don't seem to be able to receive the verification email.
- puredemo 16y agoServer error as soon as I tried to register an account.
- realitygrill 16y agoSame here
- bryanh 16y agoBah. We seem to be having trouble with Google Apps blocking emails based on a daily limit, apparently the upgrade hasn't gone through yet and is forcing an error on SMTP connections. Working on it. Edit: fixed (sorta). We're just caching emails for now until Google gets their stuff together.
- kksm19820117 16y agoThings I like: 1. Clean color scheme: The grayscale goes really easy on the eyes. 2. Match Score: While a simple ranking should have been enough, your quantification somehow gives me an idea of how far apart two matches might be. Good move - that is added intelligence.