This is beautiful, I really appreciate your giving it a shot to ask for what you want on here even though you’re dubious about getting it. There are a lot of awesome people, some of whom I know about personally, who are browsing through this, and I think seeing these sorts of comments and requests that show someone who is really thinking and realizes how hard start-ups are and is very selective, is likely to bring forth more such people and quality.
My request is that if you do get emails from someone promising and anything good comes out of it, that you please respond back with at least a quick line saying so on this thread—whether or not I do more things like this in the future will depend highly on that sort of feedback, and other people will be much more likely to try what you’re trying if it works for you. Thanks for trying it! :)
Responding (as sort of requested) almost a year later now...
The total outcome of the comments seems to have been educational, with a number of people learning and Zvi raising issues with Kelly that I hadn’t already noticed and helping to educate me, but the ostensible purpose was to “get emails from someone” and so far no one has contacted me by outside channels on the basis of having made the grand parent comment. The lack of networking success on the basis of this comment doesn’t seem like a particularly bad outcome to me in that my goal was mostly to cause education to happen that pays dividends for LWers in general in the semi-long-run :-)
I appreciate your follow up. I couple of things did happen with other projects too:
one is that one of the better versions of Anki did get created—you can see up in the newer comments somewhere, where it was linked by hacker news.
Peter is also collaborating with someone working on his version, although I don’t know whether or not this post had a impact on their collaboration.
I worked for awhile with one of the people Eliezer mentioned.
The backwards kickstarter folks were talking for awhile, and someone ended up working on a similar project with another group—I haven’t followed up with them.
I think its likely that other stuff happened—I only found out about the better-Anki program because I ran into the guy who was behind it at a party. Likewise with my post about starting group houses—I know of several group houses that started that used it as part of their process, but I think only one commented. The co-working post has also been very successful, although not in the way I had anticipated—I don’t know of much in the way of individual partnerships created, but the study hall that started is still going and populated almost 24⁄7, several months later.
This is beautiful, I really appreciate your giving it a shot to ask for what you want on here even though you’re dubious about getting it. There are a lot of awesome people, some of whom I know about personally, who are browsing through this, and I think seeing these sorts of comments and requests that show someone who is really thinking and realizes how hard start-ups are and is very selective, is likely to bring forth more such people and quality.
My request is that if you do get emails from someone promising and anything good comes out of it, that you please respond back with at least a quick line saying so on this thread—whether or not I do more things like this in the future will depend highly on that sort of feedback, and other people will be much more likely to try what you’re trying if it works for you. Thanks for trying it! :)
Thanks for the support! I put the URL and a note in my calendar, so I will probably comment again here with an update on how it worked.
Responding (as sort of requested) almost a year later now...
The total outcome of the comments seems to have been educational, with a number of people learning and Zvi raising issues with Kelly that I hadn’t already noticed and helping to educate me, but the ostensible purpose was to “get emails from someone” and so far no one has contacted me by outside channels on the basis of having made the grand parent comment. The lack of networking success on the basis of this comment doesn’t seem like a particularly bad outcome to me in that my goal was mostly to cause education to happen that pays dividends for LWers in general in the semi-long-run :-)
I appreciate your follow up. I couple of things did happen with other projects too:
one is that one of the better versions of Anki did get created—you can see up in the newer comments somewhere, where it was linked by hacker news.
Peter is also collaborating with someone working on his version, although I don’t know whether or not this post had a impact on their collaboration.
I worked for awhile with one of the people Eliezer mentioned.
The backwards kickstarter folks were talking for awhile, and someone ended up working on a similar project with another group—I haven’t followed up with them.
I think its likely that other stuff happened—I only found out about the better-Anki program because I ran into the guy who was behind it at a party. Likewise with my post about starting group houses—I know of several group houses that started that used it as part of their process, but I think only one commented. The co-working post has also been very successful, although not in the way I had anticipated—I don’t know of much in the way of individual partnerships created, but the study hall that started is still going and populated almost 24⁄7, several months later.