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Well here's our project that didn't get accepted: http://pplrep.com http://pplrep.com
by titlex 13y ago
Well here's our project that didn't get accepted: http://pplrep.com http://pplrep.com
- Swifton 13y agoWhat about the chicken and egg problem?
- titlex 13y agoWhat about it?
- Swifton 13y agoHow do you intend to solve it? If few people are on your site, nobody treats reputation on it as a real reputation. If nobody treats it as a real reputation, nobody will come.
- omerta 13y agoOne way is to get NGOs to adopt it for their volunteers and to have volunteers get rep from people they help and or serve.
- yoloswag 13y agoWow that is truly retarded. I'm sorry but if anyone gave you money for that it should be money they never expect to get back. I hate to be so hostile towards your idea but there is actually such a thing as a dumb idea and it's useful to point them out as such.
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- avsbst 13y agoThere are dumb ideas, and it can be useful to point out their weaknesses in a constructive manner. However, using the word retarded to describe something in a negative way is both childish and derogatory. Here's an eloquent description of why what you said is inappropriate. When saying retarded, “What we mean is that he is as stupid as someone who is mentally handicapped, and we mean that in the most derogatory sense. The implication is that the only characteristic of mentally handicapped individuals is their stupidity."
- omerta 13y agoDon't take his use of the word "retarded" so literally. People might take offense to the word but understand that he doesn't mean it as an actual slight toward people with real mental disabilities.
- yoloswag 13y agoThe use of the word "dumb" is extremely derogatory to people who are actually dumb (as per the original meaning of the word). You're being extremely childish and derogatory. Look up what "dumb" actually means before you use the word. See how this works now?
- SolarNet 13y agoHave you considered that you weren’t chosen because of your attitude instead of your project. Your comment here (as well as your name...) betrays a certain... outlook on the world. It's not just about the ideas, it's also about the team, the people at YC have said as much in their press releases of the past. I would look inward before looking at your project.
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- tsenkov 13y agoI like the idea. I think you need a bit better specificity on what exactly is rated. Best of luck to you and your project.
- QuasiAlon 13y agoreminds me of Daps'em from a few years back: http://thenextweb.com/eu/2011/04/05/give-your-friends-a-virtual-fist-bump-with-dapsem-invites/ http://thenextweb.com/eu/2011/04/05/give-your-friends-a-virt...
- omerta 13y agoyeah, if we had known about all those ideas, we wouldn't have bothered with pplrep. There was another similar idea called "honestly" or something. Our YC application, it wasn't even serious and they asked us to make a video last minute yesterday cause we never bothered with a video. I made one in my dark apartment on the spot. Honestly, if pplrep was actually working out and we had impressive user growth, we'd never apply to YC because $11,000 or what have you for 7% is not something I'd be interested in.
- crazytony 13y agoyc's not about the startup cash it's about the access to influential people
- omerta 13y ago@crazytony, if your startup is already working out, influential people will come to you. Also, where did I explicitly state that YC was only about money? I don't even think you can say I implicitly meant that or assume it was the gist of what I said.
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