[cbcowans]

Hi HN! This is a conversation we had on Elpha with Dr. Whitney Gaynor, CEO of Sinovia Technologies.

Elpha is a community for women in tech to talk candidly online and I'm the co-founder and CEO. Hope you enjoy the conversation!

I'll be in the comments if you have any questions.

[elefanten]

How could one find posts like this without a direct link? Is there some portion of your posts that are public? Every action I try prompts me to sign up, but I do not meet the sign-up criteria. Just wondering if there's a still a way to passively view/read some portion of your content, without attempting to comment/participate.

Cool AMA, thanks.

[cbcowans]

Yes our main feed at https://elpha.com/top. Thanks for the feedback we will add a more clear way to get back to the main feed from a specific post.

[Isamu]

Very interesting discussion, especially with respect to experience with the SBIR program. And I like seeing hardware startups here. Thank you for posting.

[boiler_up800]

Same. Our funding started with SBIR and it’s always nice to run into others.

[telesilla]

Hi, can you let me know why communities like yours demand a linked in profile to join? I use no social media whatsoever and it blocks me from enjoying communities such as yours. It makes me feel further isolated as a woman in tech who is also strongly privacy-oriented. I understand the need to verify, however could you provide a link perhaps where manual verification could be offered?

[cbcowans]

You can add a link to a personal website or github profile instead. We'll update language to reflect that. Thanks for the feedback. Please do email us at hi@elpha if you've got other questions. Thanks.

[telesilla]

Please do. I asked this exact question a while ago and no change was made to the sign-up form. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19080420