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by mkl 2802 days ago
Interesting idea, though it seems like I've seen several services like this appear and apparently not go anywhere. How are you going to achieve critical mass?

Some feedback:

1. "Our knowledge is the cheapest thing to us" seems way off; my knowledge is the most expensive hard-won thing I have. That doesn't mean I don't want to share it, but "cheap" implies low value and seems like the wrong word.

2. The focus on coffee is a bit strange. I don't drink coffee, or meet for "coffee" or anything.

3. The three characters after "Matching" in the animated demo just show up as missing-character boxes for me (Android Chrome).

4. I can't tell if it's audio-only on Android. If you included a shared whiteboard that would make many things, e.g. maths, art, etc. way more doable, especially with picture/screenshot import.

5. The quotation marks in the quote bubbles are all over the place. The two that have them are both inconsistent and incorrect. I think you don't need them, but if you want them, in English they should be “...” and look like 66...99.

2 comments

Thank you for the bug and typo reports!

Agree with 1. The thinking is that your knowledge is now readily available for you and you can use it to get other people's hard-won knowledge in exchange.

A shared whiteboard is a great idea!

> 1. "Our knowledge is the cheapest thing to us" seems way off

Maybe something more like "Our knowledge costs us nothing to share"?

Also nice – I slightly altered that wording since, what do you think?
"readily available to us" I like it.