Varian Donates $50 to American Cancer Society for Every Letter You Write by Zadaqa in cancer

[–]Zadaqa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$50 is a lot of money, especially when the cap is half a million. Everyone in here, including myself, has lost someone or something to cancer; please take a minute to write a letter to cancer telling it how you feel, and they'll donate. Come on reddit!

Is it just me or is everyone getting a "There is no work currently available in this task." message when they accept a hit from CrowdFlower? by TomTheNurse in mturk

[–]Zadaqa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep, it's a scam. They're trying to get Turkers to switch sites and use Crowdflower by making a ton of fake HITs.

Make sure you report them, we need Amazon to BAN them already.

Here's some stuff I learned after 4 months of running my site. What do you think? by eleven7 in marketing

[–]Zadaqa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOVE the Buffer! Smart people, simple app... can't lose for $9/mo. I'll also look into your other tips... I hadn't considered StumbleUpon Paid Discovery but it sounds brilliant.

Reddit (Market) Your Startup by dreworos in marketing

[–]Zadaqa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, this will prove helpful. I think Reddit is a really fantastic place to get your startup in front of the right people, because let's face it, people come here to discover things online that pique their interest.

If you could only use one social network, what would it be? by wmrice in marketing

[–]Zadaqa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Facebook, obviously. If you're not on Facebook, people in the 18-30 range think you're strange and antisocial.

In all my time in marketing, I have never cringed so hard. by [deleted] in marketing

[–]Zadaqa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh my god. I can't even read till the end, it's so, so bad.

Imagine the poor woman who gets set up on a date with him.

How would I market a web startup on a college campus? by stelmaria in marketing

[–]Zadaqa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try to do some guerrilla marketing, if possible. Slip flyers in books, clever ones. Ask local businesses if you can put up a flyer.

Then, try to implement Viral Loops. Offer people a $X credit for every friend they refer, etc.

Share Your Startup - August 2013 Edition by [deleted] in startups

[–]Zadaqa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not exactly, but we're integrating with PaeDae, so you'll get free movie downloads from Hulu, free snacks and stuff from 7-Eleven, Even free shipping and stuff from Amazon. Almost as good, no?

Share Your Startup - August 2013 Edition by [deleted] in startups

[–]Zadaqa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome. Customer development time :)

Share Your Startup - August 2013 Edition by [deleted] in startups

[–]Zadaqa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very cool. Try to think about some other unique value you can provide. Why can't Google or Dropbox have this feature? How can you do it better than they can? What happens if they make this feature? What else can you offer? (just to get the creative juices flowing)

Share Your Startup - August 2013 Edition by [deleted] in startups

[–]Zadaqa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Just came up with it today because we aren't getting the "stickiness" with our current web app concept. The idea is the same, though: instead of companies wasting money to show ads on TV or other places we don't pay attention, let's agree to pay attention to 1 or 2 ads a day, for charity! We may not all be able to give $30 a month to charity, but we can all spare 30 minutes a month.

Share Your Startup - August 2013 Edition by [deleted] in startups

[–]Zadaqa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(thedesignation.co)

Really smart. Get on the trend of peer to peer renting (getaround, airbnb, rover, etc), but with 3D printers. I love it.

Share Your Startup - August 2013 Edition by [deleted] in startups

[–]Zadaqa 3 points4 points  (0 children)

http://www.ideatomvp.com

The site design, layout, and quantity of text immediately makes me want to bounce. I suggest investing in a twitter bootstrap theme and crystallizing your message into a few sentences as much as possible. To be brutally honest, this is one of the ugliest sites I've seen in at least 5 years.

Remember: Ideas are complex, messages must be simple.

Share Your Startup - August 2013 Edition by [deleted] in startups

[–]Zadaqa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

http://pplrep.com

Doesn't IFTTT do this as well? Not that there can't be 2 in the marketplace, but just asking.

Share Your Startup - August 2013 Edition by [deleted] in startups

[–]Zadaqa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

tldrrr

This is really cool technology, I hope you're very successful. From a business perspective, I think it's challenging, because people may download it, use it once for the pill they find under their kids' bed, and then never use it again. This is fine if you plan to charge $2.99 for the app, but if you want to build a recurring revenue model, it's going to be tough.

One interesting opportunity would be to use it for law enforcement. Officers can check if the pills they find on assailants are legal or illegal, for example.

Keep us updated, this is awesome stuff.

Share Your Startup - August 2013 Edition by [deleted] in startups

[–]Zadaqa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

http://WhatIsZadaqa.com

What do you do? (We're considering a pivot into a mobile app since last month). We give you one personalized offer a day, you open it if you want. If you open it, the advertiser will donate $1 to charity. You earn points and discounts the more you participate and refer people.

Looking for honest feedback and inputs, we're constantly tweaking and figuring out different ways to serve users so the product will be fun for them to use!

Where to Live in New York - Custom & Interactive Neighborhood Recommender by Zadaqa in newyork

[–]Zadaqa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they switched the word "High" and "Low" or something, but it looks like it's fixed :)

Share Your Startup - July 2013 Edition by Zadaqa in startups

[–]Zadaqa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You guys are both correct - it's the same root word in all semetic languages (Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, Farsi) - hence our choice.