#Launch

#Launch

The 9-year-old secret community of makers, relaunching today

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Marshall Haas
Maker
Hey everyone, we've also written a blog post telling the backstory of this community that @jon started 9 years ago. The Secret Community of 20 Kids That Spawned 5 YC Founders, A Theil Fellow, & Dozens of Startups: http://needwant.com/p/secret-com...
Bhavesh Patel ✌️
@jon @marshal Just signed up! Hopefully get accepted! :-D
Shashank Bharadwaj
That's funny. I remember 17 in 2006 and trying to get emancipated to start my company. Life took a detour though. Wish I had a community like this
Michael Buckbee
@marshal I signed up for the mailing list and now will *never have to make my bed again* - fyi: it takes you back to the SmartBedding site as that's probably the default for that MailChimp account.
Joshua Dance
@jon @marshal Awesome! This is much better than an April fools joke. :)
Steve RAFFNER
@jon @marshal signed up (not young but my avatar will help...) yay!
Gregory Koberger
I've been part of #Launch for the past few months (my face even made the site!), and it's a great community. I definitely recommend applying. The quality of the original #Launch group is insane. I've met a good number of them, and it's like a mini startup mafia. (Here's a list: http://cl.ly/image/3F3j3k0b0C0r)
Ian Mikutel
@gkoberger Agreed, I've been a lurker for a while and it's an encouraging community, ready and willing to help others learn and succeed in launching.
Tiffany Zhong
@gkoberger your face
Ben Tossell
Hi guys (loved the little blog post). Question: How do you know that the level of "value" from this particular community will remain high? Isn't opening up the community for others to join going to weaken this community? Interested in your perspective :) - big fan of community driven projects.
Jamie Barton
@bentossell I feel the same way. I was going to apply to join but at the end of the day, although I'm a Rails developer with over 10 years experience in web development, I don't see why #Launch would want someone like me.
Jeff Andersen
@bentossell while the community is being opened up, we won't be opening the floodgates (which I feel addresses your major concern). Until recently we were only about 20 people, but in the last month (since we moved from IRC to Slack) we've grown that to approximately 90 and it has been better than ever.
Marshall Haas
Maker
@notrab We want you in Launch, Jamie.
Caleb Mingle
@notrab if you're willing to share that ten years of experience to help others grow then you sound like the perfect member of #Launch :)
Ross Currie
@bentossell @jeffandersen @marshal I've thrown my name down - I've found the MakerHunt community to be an excellent resource of amazing people, and am quite interested to see how #Launch plays out. The one thing I'm curious about - you guys seem to be really pushing the re-launch (ProductHunt, Reddit, blog, etc.), but then are restricting access to maintain quality. This seems a little bit incongruent to me. What sort of application/acceptance rate are you currently seeing on the site? Given you aren't capturing a lot of information during the application process, what level of scrutiny are you applying to applicants? I 100% think that some level of scrutiny is important to prevent the creation of a wantrapreneur community - I'm just curious as to how you guys are filtering.