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I've poked around and even created a SubCombinator. But, I'm still trying to figure out exactly what the site offers. In some aspects its feels like Hacker News

by vyrotek 16y ago

I've poked around and even created a SubCombinator. But, I'm still trying to figure out exactly what the site offers. In some aspects its feels like Hacker News with Reddit sort of categories. Then you have this Expert/Student system. Honestly, I'm not completely sure I understand it. I see that I can set myself as the expert for a SubReddit...I mean SubCombinator. "At the end of every month, the top five Sensei (advisers or investors) in each area will receive the proposals of the top ten Grasshoppers (entrepreneurs or activists), based on points earned for intelligent posts and comments that month." So, this didn't make sense to me until I registered. If I understand correctly, you 'pre-fill' a sort of pitch/proposal that you want to be sent out. Then based on your activity in the site it will be emailed to the 'Experts' of the SubCombinators where you've earned the most points recently. Does that sound right?

noduerme 16y ago
Right. You fill in your proposal, which is kept hidden. If you're in the top 10-rated "grasshoppers" in a subcom, at the end of the month, your proposal gets packaged into a nice email that goes out to just the top 5-rated "sensei" or experts.
- vyrotek 16y ago
  Have you shared this with people who would be experts and actually interested in receiving proposals? I guess I don't fully understand how my activity in a news sharing site makes me important to an investor. You're basically trying to reward people who participate and submit links with the idea that their pitch will be seen by an investor who is following a topic you contribute to. Its definitely an interesting approach. And there's some work to be done on the UI, education and flow within the site. You just need to make sure there's real value for everyone involved.
  - noduerme 16y ago
    I have, and there are a few investors who are waiting to see what happens here. Myself included. It's got to be an organic process; hopefully some people with great ideas will start posting and sharing their concepts, and it will snowball. Although I should stress I don't see this as a primarily IT-oriented site, it could become anything, or go in any direction, depending on who gets involved. In a lot of ways it's an experimental, theoretical model. I have no idea if it will really work, but I can imagine a lot of interesting proposals being collected that would be interesting opportunities for investors, who in turn will have to work to get their ratings up, in order to see those proposals.

by vyrotek 16y ago

noduerme 16y ago

Right. You fill in your proposal, which is kept hidden. If you're in the top 10-rated "grasshoppers" in a subcom, at the end of the month, your proposal gets packaged into a nice email that goes out to just the top 5-rated "sensei" or experts.

vyrotek 16y ago
Have you shared this with people who would be experts and actually interested in receiving proposals? I guess I don't fully understand how my activity in a news sharing site makes me important to an investor. You're basically trying to reward people who participate and submit links with the idea that their pitch will be seen by an investor who is following a topic you contribute to. Its definitely an interesting approach. And there's some work to be done on the UI, education and flow within the site. You just need to make sure there's real value for everyone involved.
- noduerme 16y ago
  I have, and there are a few investors who are waiting to see what happens here. Myself included. It's got to be an organic process; hopefully some people with great ideas will start posting and sharing their concepts, and it will snowball. Although I should stress I don't see this as a primarily IT-oriented site, it could become anything, or go in any direction, depending on who gets involved. In a lot of ways it's an experimental, theoretical model. I have no idea if it will really work, but I can imagine a lot of interesting proposals being collected that would be interesting opportunities for investors, who in turn will have to work to get their ratings up, in order to see those proposals.