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by jasode 2172 days ago
To copy & paste a previous comment I made about the concept of "constrained supply": When discussing "platform economics", economists often like to identify the "constrained supply" because that dictates where to prioritize efforts. In Uber, the constrained supply is the drivers, not the passengers. In dating apps, the constrained supply is women, not men. In a Q&A website, the constrained supply is the expert answerers and not the question askers. (This matches our intuition that generating new questions is "easy" and a larger population can ask them but answering questions is "hard" and therefore it's a smaller population that can do it.)

For Acoto, the constrained supply is the "expert mentor". So it's logical to want to know about the benefits for the mentors... but when I try click on the link to in the landing page:

>Want to register as an expert? There are numerous benefits of partnering with us. Click here"

It's just a sign up page asking for mobile phone and email address. No benefits specified. Being opaque about this is not a good look.

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Hey! Thanks for asking. As we are in early-stage we are reaching out to experts directly and we are not expecting them to come to us directly through our website. Using this we do have many professionals from top firms.

As we continue further we will change the website and list down the benefits mentor will get in our platform. We added that link just to make sure if by any luck a mentor lands on our page he/she can contact us. It is mainly for users.

Do let me know what you think now :)

>. Using this we do have many professionals from top firms. [...] if by any luck a mentor lands on our page he/she can contact us. It is mainly for users.

That's fine if Acoto's main web landing page is tailored for the job seeker audience but it's still important for the candidates to know what the (financial) incentives are for the mentors.

Being secretive instead of transparent about how you plan to attract and reward mentors and how you make money is a negative signal to users to not trust the website. You can state the mentors' benefits in a blog post and/or a deep link sub-page on your website. Users will want to know "what's in it for the mentors?".

Sure I would keep that in mind. Thanks for the feedback. Apart from that how do you feel about our idea and also about the English text as other comments are mentioning that the text looks fishy or a type of scam?