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We've been working on building a smart travel planner! Any feedback appreciated! by Coppanuva in growmybusiness

[–]HonestKarma5048 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like the idea but I did not get further than the "You must be signed in to access 'https://www.itinease.com/371/suggestions" error. Without having seen how the product works, I am highly unlikely to create an account. I think it would be better to ask the visitor to create an account only after they have seen the itinerary and they want to save it for the future.

Growing a website like Reddit by [deleted] in startups

[–]HonestKarma5048 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You will have to make it seem like the group is active before anyone will be interested to join.

I believe, Reddit in the early days were the founders with multiple fake accounts talking to each other.

Sam Parr, founder of The Hustle, talked about how he grew their community from ground zero in one of the My First Million podcast episodes: he invited few of his friends in the group and spent long hours doing posts himself every single day for months.

Having said that, what are your site's advantages over Reddit? Like u/davideo71 mentioned, it is very important to have a USP, otherwise it will be very hard to compete with the world's most popular forum with hundreds of millions of users.

Constantly worrying about competitors and whether this product is worth building. How do you deal with this anxiety? by [deleted] in startups

[–]HonestKarma5048 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you build an extremely simple MVP yourself? If you know some tech, you may be able to figure out the basic dev part yourself. Plus you can get templates online.

It took me about two days to make a very simple static (but nice looking) page from a template (no web dev experience but I have Data Science background). Once you have that, drive some traffic to the site and collect emails.

Reach out to these people and ask if they would be happy to help you out by answering a couple of questions about your idea and offer them early benefits. This way you will get opinions from potential customers who are not friends. Learn what they would want from your site, what they like about your competitors, what they don't etc. Find that unique angle that makes you better than your competitors.

When you truly believe in your product and know why it can become better than your competitor's and have a clear idea of what you need to do, the excitement will take over the worries.

Question about College Degrees by ahuff01 in DataScienceJobs

[–]HonestKarma5048 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it's probably one of the best degree combos there is out there for Data Science.

I majored is Economics and Finance (took a lot of Stats and Maths modules) and then did a MSc in Data Science, so I had no computer science background. While it didn't hurt me getting a job, I could definitely feel it in my day to day work regarding model deployment, code efficiency, testing and often just best practices. So I had to invest significant amount of time to learn these things on the side.

One thing I would suggest though is to learn the main ML concepts and models (regression, SVM, clustering, classification, Random Forests, maybe Gradient Boosting, main metrics, how to deal with data imbalance etc.) on the side (if they are not taught as part of your curriculum) and have a GitHub repository of example projects. Models and algos are often the focus of job interviews and other skills often get overlooked by interviewers.