| Cool! Sounds like you have many interesting problems, on top of the usual fun challenges of running a social network+cross platform app. Computer vision, recommenders for hairstyles, products, stylists, and probably many more. Then you have usage information about all of those you could use in a bunch of ways. And you can monetise with simple, relevant, products ads, or get a commission off booking a stylist, or collaborate with a booking platform like TresseNoire (although that's NYC only for now I guess). So that's a lot more options than many YC backed startups. A few questions. Feel free to ignore them if there are too many. It says you're hiring engineers and designers on your website. Care to go to into more specifics about what kind of positions you're hiring for? Semi-OT in the "only care about users" YC world, but just curious, what's your stack? It says on your website that you're based in Ghana. Do you plan on going back there after YC, or staying in SV to make it easier to find tech workers+VC money, or have a foot in both places? |
Our top level stack is Ruby on Rails, Postgresql, Redis, AWS, Heroku, Java, Objective C & Swift.
We initially tested our product in Ghana. But our user base has grown since and our users are from all over the world with a significant majority from Africa and the US. We are and will be based in Silicon Valley going forward. It's a global app and our goal is to have our foot placed globally