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Re:Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor by Total_Meltdown on Thursday April 25, 2013 @10:01PM (#5611087)
1) How it looks on my monitor: http://i.imgur.com/iSjP8ae.png - might not want to repeat that title image like that.

2) I would really like to see if there are any mentors relevant to my interests before I have to make yet another account on yet another website.

3) I really think mentorship is the best way to really become good at a skill. Hope it goes well for you.

Re:Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor by AlexeyMK on Thursday April 25, 2013 @11:28PM (#5611331)
+1 for (2).

The other issue is, great mentors aren't usually plainly available on a website; the very act of finding their contact info/introduction and making a convincing pitch for "I'm worth meeting with" is a great filter for experts who (unlike YC, for example) don't have the bandwidth for an open application process.

Re:Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor by msutherl on Friday April 26, 2013 @12:06AM (#5611423)
This is so true, but I think a lot of people haven't had the opportunity to find good role-models in life and something like this could be a first step in the right direction.

The brilliant can be left to blaze their own obscure bildungsroman.

Re:Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor by lsc on Friday April 26, 2013 @12:44AM (#5611507)
I think the previous comment was talking about the mentors not having time to go through an open-application process, not the people looking for mentors.
Re:Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor by msutherl on Friday April 26, 2013 @03:09PM (#5614827)
Great mentors don't have time, but less-than-great mentors do, and they are good enough for the target audience of Mentii.
Re:Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor by lsc on Monday April 29, 2013 @08:43PM (#5629807)
most of my mentorship relationships (on both ends) have involved some sort of business relationship; in many ways, that makes it less weird?
Re:Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor by nitinpande on Thursday April 25, 2013 @10:17PM (#5611143)
Thanks for the screenshot .. we'll fix it. And Thanks for your good wishes :). We'll soon try to create something that will help you get a better sense interest areas of the mentor population inside.
Re:Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor by ch4nd4n on Thursday April 25, 2013 @10:21PM (#5611157)
Large monitor quirks. Oh well then there are mobiles and tablets to take care as well!
Re:Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor by meetforeal on Thursday April 25, 2013 @11:12PM (#5611290)
come on, 1) is not a big issue... Not big enough to put it first anyway!
Re:Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor by Sonicrida on Thursday April 25, 2013 @11:35PM (#5611344)
It might be because it was the first thing he noticed, not the most important thing.
Re:Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor by Total_Meltdown on Friday April 26, 2013 @10:04AM (#5612947)
#1 and #2 are in the order I noticed them, and #3 is so the whole post isn't just criticism. There's no deeper meaning than that.