I am a solo founder developing this new social media platform

[shannontkwong]

Hey everyone! I am a 19 y/o founder taking a gap year to build Airdel - a social media platform startup. I’ve noticed many of today's social media platforms aren't action-oriented nor optimized for real-time collaboration which is important for people who have personal goals, are working on impactful real-world missions and projects (Humanitarian events e.g California wildfire victims, Emergency healthcare deliveries, climbing Mt.everest, working on research/patents or even just building cool projects). That’s why I’m building a social media platform that connects your needs with people who can help— whether it’s industry stakeholders, professionals, or individuals with a common solution to your problem.

Airdel contains a feed where you can post your mission progress, updates, and achievements, an online directory where you can search for needs and missions to collaborate and partner with others on, and a professional working platform with productivity tools to collaborate on missions until completion. The platform tracks the entire life of your mission/project from start to finish which is recorded on your personal profile. Collaborators can be anonymously reviewed, allowing others to judge trustworthiness for future collaborations.

People who have signed up are in the humanitarian, healthcare, tech, science, business, entertainment, sports and creatives sector needing specific urgent solutions, connections, and resources. These span from NGOs, Institutions, Individuals, Suppliers, Sellers, Organizations and government.

Let me know what you guys think! I will be answering every one of your questions. Shoot!

Landing page: www.getairdel.com Interested in helping out? Contact me [e-mail]

Best, Shannon

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clickable link https://www.getairdel.com/

[westurner]

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33302599 :

> If you label things with #GlobalGoal hashtags, others can find solutions to the very same problems.

The Global Goals are the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2015-2030.

There are 17 Goals, 169 Targets and 247 Indicators.

There have been social media campaigns with hashtags, so there are already "hames" (hashtaggable names) for the high level goals.

Anyone can implement #hashtags, +tags, WikiWords, or similar. The twitter-text library is open source, for example.

Re: Schema.org/Mission, :Goal, :Objective [...] linked data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12525141

"Ask HN: Any well funded tech companies tackling big, meaningful problems?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24412493

From https://github.com/thegreenwebfoundation/carbon.txt/issues/3... re: a proposed carbon.txt:

> Is there a way for sites to sign a claim with e.g. ld-proofs and then have an e.g. an independent auditor - maybe also with a W3C DID Decentralized Identifier - sign to independently verify?

When an auditor confirms a sustainability report, they could sign it and award a signed blockcert.

(Other ideas considered for similar matching, recommendation, and expert-finding objectives: A StackExchange site for SDG Q&A with upvotes and downvotes, )

I saw that you're not interested in (syndicating content for inbound links with) AT protocol? Is it perceived development cost and estimation of inbound traffic?

What differentiates your offering from existing platforms like LinkedIn? How could your mission be achieved with existing solutions?

[shannontkwong]

You've touched on something that's central to AirDel's design philosophy. While hashtags and semantic tagging systems like the UN SDG vocabulary provide excellent standardization for categorizing problems, they primarily solve the information organization challenge rather than the resource coordination challenge.

AirDel is built on the observation that the gap isn't in labeling missions - it's in connecting the labeled missions with the actual resources needed to accomplish them. Even perfectly categorized goals often stall because:

1. The right resources aren't connected to the right needs in real-time 2. Communication happens in silos separate from resource coordination 3. Verification and trust mechanisms are missing from hashtag-based discovery

What differentiates us from LinkedIn or hashtag systems is that we've built resource matching directly into the conversation flow. When someone posts a need in AirDel, our system doesn't just categorize it - it actively identifies who in the network has the resources, expertise, or connections to help, then facilitates the actual coordination.

I'm actually very interested in the AT protocol for future interoperability! Our current focus is on perfecting the resource coordination mechanisms, but creating bridges to existing semantic standards (including the UN SDG vocabulary) is definitely on our roadmap.

Regarding your question about existing solutions - we found that while platforms like LinkedIn excel at professional networking, and hashtag systems excel at categorization, neither provides the action-oriented infrastructure needed for time-sensitive resource coordination.

Would love to discuss this further - especially your thoughts on how we might incorporate some of these semantic standards while maintaining our focus on practical resource matching.

[westurner]

There is an SDG vocabulary to link problems and solutions with: https://unsceb.org/common-digital-identifiers-sdgs :

> The common identifiers for Sustainable Development Goals, Targets and Indicators are available online. The portal is provided by the UN Library, which also hosts the UN Bibliographic Information System (UN BIS) Taxonomy. The IRIs have also been mapped to the UN Environment SDG Interface Ontology (SDGIO, by UNEP) and to the UN Bibliographic Information System vocabulary, to enable the use of these resources seamlessly in linking documents and data from different sources to Goals, Targets, Indicators, and closely related concepts.

The UN SDG vocabulary: https://metadata.un.org/sdg/?lang=en

"A Knowledge Organization System for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals" (2021) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-77385-4_...