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Hi,
I'm at an event in London for people that want to be part of a startup (Launch48.com). So basically attendees pitch their ideas to the crowd, the best ideas are voted,we form teams and work on them for the whole wknd. At the end of the weekend we present our work to mentors and investors.
Our idea is basically a platform for trading compliments!People buy credits from our website and use them to post pictures. Each picture has a bounty on it (eg. 10 credits) that is awarded to the best compliment! So you could even make money while complimenting people!we charge a small % on each picture hosted.
The inception of the idea came from Kuan-Neng Foo,walking down the road one day,a bum on the street asked him for 'a quarter for your thoughts?'. He thought it was a bit excessive but went for it after all. The bum said 'nice shirt man!'. He surprisingly felt good about it,even though he had to pay for the compliment! He ended up spending over a $1!
It didn't matter that the compliment was paid for. It was a real compliment from a real person, and that made him feel good.
The project is at its inception stage,but we tried to launch an mvp asap and see what the feedback we get on the whole idea,and iterate accordingly.
We are considering a lot of pivot options from the initial idea,a couple are:
-facebook game add
-develop a platform that will allow businesses to reward useful reviews of their products (even if they are negative reviews)
Any thoughts/comments/berating/complimenting (?) are welcome!
ty
I'm at an event in London for people that want to be part of a startup (Launch48.com). So basically attendees pitch their ideas to the crowd, the best ideas are voted,we form teams and work on them for the whole wknd. At the end of the weekend we present our work to mentors and investors.
Our idea is basically a platform for trading compliments!People buy credits from our website and use them to post pictures. Each picture has a bounty on it (eg. 10 credits) that is awarded to the best compliment! So you could even make money while complimenting people!we charge a small % on each picture hosted.
The inception of the idea came from Kuan-Neng Foo,walking down the road one day,a bum on the street asked him for 'a quarter for your thoughts?'. He thought it was a bit excessive but went for it after all. The bum said 'nice shirt man!'. He surprisingly felt good about it,even though he had to pay for the compliment! He ended up spending over a $1!
It didn't matter that the compliment was paid for. It was a real compliment from a real person, and that made him feel good.
The project is at its inception stage,but we tried to launch an mvp asap and see what the feedback we get on the whole idea,and iterate accordingly.
We are considering a lot of pivot options from the initial idea,a couple are:
-facebook game add
-develop a platform that will allow businesses to reward useful reviews of their products (even if they are negative reviews)
Any thoughts/comments/berating/complimenting (?) are welcome!
ty
