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This seems very similar to the now defunct grubwithus. I tried it in the early days and it was great but it suffered very noticeably from the Evaporative Coolin
by shalmanese 11y ago
This seems very similar to the now defunct grubwithus. I tried it in the early days and it was great but it suffered very noticeably from the Evaporative Cooling Effect [1]. It was very noticeable after about a year that the quality of people was much lower and I evaporatively cooled myself out as well. It's a huge challenge with models like this to avoid that problem.
1: http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/social-software-sundays-2-the-evaporative-cooling-effect/ http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/social-software-sundays-2-the-...
- shakers 11y agoAh, so cool! This is actually a direct result from my experience with grubwithus (which I loved). The Evaporative Cooling Effect is definitely real and caused a lot of flaking from that service. That experience is why we don't let you see/know in advance who's coming and why we handpick the groups.
- shalmanese 11y agoHand picking groups doesn't help if you can't compel people to go. People who have 2 or 3 bad experiences will just silently stop going and those people are most likely to be the ones who have the most to offer.