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Kevin William David
Sshush — Private chatrooms for founders that disappear in 24 hrs
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Private chatrooms for founders are AWESOME! Start your own room or join existing ones and have the right conversations at the right time. Once a room has 10 founders in, it cannot be accessed by anyone else. Boost your startup and have fun!
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Miriam Dorsett
LOL this sounds fun! Congrats on the launch, its great to meet you in the 100x100 challenge.
Mustafa S.
Cool idea! On demand `private chat rooms` was enough for me to be hooked. Why is it specifically targeted for Founders?
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@milkers Hi mustafa! Thanks for the support. Our startup's purpose is to help founders that's why the current focus is on founders only. We are starting from a niche that has so many problems in a daily basis.
Deep Kakkad
Congrats on the launch, Tasos! Looks great.
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@dkakkad99 Thank you!
Aleks Bochkov
This looks amazing! Congrats 🚀
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@bochkovaleks Thanks a lot Aleks! Appreciate it
Alex Jost
Nice idea. How do you ensure the quality of the founders? So it doesn't get overrun with salesmen and spam like most groups do..
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@alexisjst Hi Alex! Great question. First, the way the profile setup works it is meant to be used by active founders only. 2 whenever there is a spammy kind of post, it gets flagged by our internal tool and gets deleted. 3) Which is something we are testing today, is if we make it invite only if that increases the quality.
Primer
Love it, but why do you need phone number?
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@mickc79 To invite you. It is for ios and android. Mobile app
Primer
@tasos_valtinos Ahh i see. i thought it was a web app. To be fair though you can still invite people by email. I was slightly reluctant to give up my phone number. Feels unnecessary.
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@mickc79 Taking that as a feedback :) Removed it. Let's see how that affects the growth of the signups today :) Thanks again
Primer
No one else has mentioned it here. So maybe it’s just me. But I can’t make head nor tail of the UI. The main landing page of the app seems t have three distinct sections, but none of them have headers. What’s the difference between these three sections? Also on the top section, one of the elements is made up of three parts. They seem to be 1) the authors name 2) the subcategory eg “general” 3) an excerpt of the post However when you tap into it there is a big header titled “hiring talent”. Why is that not on the homepage as it’s the biggest signaller as to what the post is about? That’s just one example.
Primer
Also when I tap the PLUS icon at the top of the homepage it brings up my devices sharing options. What’s that about? Since when did a plus icon (+) mean share? And what would be shared exactly from that page? Sorry, I like this concept which is why I’m being verbose with my feedback.
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@mickc79 Hey! Love the feedback. Dont worry about being verbose, no time for hard feelings :P Restructuring the components of the home page, is my main task for our next update. For this one I focused on completing the chatrooms and test the assumption. I completely agree that the home page is "too much" the way it is, and confuses people.
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@mickc79 Yeap, i received similar feedback on that because there are 2 plus icons at the home page. What about the chatrooms? How did u find them?
Ruben Wolff
Interesting idea! Can people come and go in these chatrooms? And is it possible to close a room when you're less than 10 people inside? I guess some serious founders would not want to let anyone join if the conversation has already been taken to the next level, or if they're satisfied by who they found already
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@rubenwolff Hi Ruben. Thanks for the support. Yes, you can join and leave a room if you want! Right now the room closes automatically when it reaches 10 people or when 24 hrs pass after creation. So even if only 5 people are in, 24hrs they will be the only ones with access. But it is not customizable yet. We first wanted to see if it is useful. And looks like it is :)
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Hey Product Hunt! Thank you @kevin for supporting our launch! This has been the most exciting launch EVER! I introduce you - Private Chatrooms For High-Quality Founders! A few weeks back, myself, 2 YC alumni's and a Clubhouse legend, we came up with this after talking with loads of founders. It felt like chaotic group chats & irrelevant content do not help anyone, especially founders. Scrolling through millions of messages, taking part in irrelevant conversations and a lot of spamming, IS A WASTE OF TIME. And we all know, FOUNDERS DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR BULLS**T ❤️ After a few drinks over Zoom, we were like "Why don't we solve that problem once and for all? Let's make something that never becomes chaotic, and it is always relevant to the founders." Therefore, we spent 2 weeks coding it! Here is how it works: ✔️ Start your own room and set the topic for discussion ✔️ Invite people from your own network if you wish ✔️ Once a chatroom has 10 founders in, cannot be accessed by anyone else ✔️ If you don't feel like starting a room, join existing ones. Not feeling like starting a room? Enjoy our QnA matching ✔️ Ask a question and instantly see answers, discussions and people linked to it The goal is to create a place for high-quality founders who are actively working on their startups. We want to help you skyrocket your startup by having the right conversations at the right time with the right people. And that's what we do ;) Enjoy - It's FREE!
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@kevin @michael_sieb Thanks Michael :) Saw your launch too! Great stuff!
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@kevin @rosalin04522786 Thanks a lot :)
Carlo Thissen
This is amazing! Love the approach to value quality of discussion over quantity!
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@carlo_thissen Thanks Carlo :)
Greg Zen at StartupHeroics.com
Congrats Tasos!
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@mrgregzen Thank you Greg!
Ivanna Wendel
I love this idea! Well done!
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@ivanna_wendel thanks a lot Ivanna! Feel free to give it a go, would love to hear your feedback!
Baptiste N
Looks like an amazing product that is aligned to the current trends. Congrats for that @tasos_valtinos! Can't wait to give it a try!
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@baptiste_ncls Thanks a lot Baptiste!
Jaume Alavedra
Congrats on the launch! I tried this concept a while back with https://peerpull.com actually! Super hard to get the wheel rolling. Best of luck!
Eva Shalenko
Great upgrade though! Even if I'm not able to be active in Mapped, I always will advice founders to use it!! Good luck!
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@evgeniya_shalenko Thank you! Really appreciate it!
Vivek
This is a nice idea!
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@vivekweb2013 Thanks Vivek!
Maria Valtinou
Great idea Tasos! Can't wait to give it a try 🤫
Sarah Allali
Congrats @tasos_valtinos! You did a really nice job as always!
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@sarah_allali Thanks a lot Sarah!
Lakshya Patel
To be honest i never thought i need anything like this but now that you have created this i am sure i will be using it on a daily basis to exchange ideas, information, meet new people, find co-founders etc. This is a legit cool app i will be using
Shharrnam Chhatpar
What a cool idea! Can't wait to try this out.
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@sharnam19 Feel free to request access ;)
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@sharnam19 amazing!