[brig]

Hi all. Great to read your feedback on Sparked. Quick answers to some of the comments:

* I hear you about wanting to see challenges before you commit to signing up. We've got some modifications to the onboarding process in the works that are along these lines. Totally agree with you all.

* Re: business model. We make money by selling the platform to corporations as a way to manage their employee volunteering programs. We are now a certified B-corp, btw.

* Re: "micro" - we consider micro to be anything that you can conveniently fit into your day. So that could be 2 hours or 2 minutes. In all cases, it's less time and less commitment than most other forms of volunteering. We tried very very micro tasks initially (image tagging) - these took about 30 seconds each... but people didn't find these kinds of tasks interesting over time. So, we expanded how we thought about micro.

* Re: Dool: sorry that the page refreshed and you lost your answer. Haven't seen or heard of that happening before, but we're looking into it immediately to see if there's an ajax bug. Definitely not an intended behavior.

-ben rigby cto & co-founder sparked.com