Hey HN. I'm building SuperDebate. The basic idea is that millions of adults did competitive debate in school and there's nothing for them now. No leagues, no local clubs, no way to compete. We're trying to fix that.We built a platform where you can run structured debates with assigned sides. That's the key piece. You don't argue your opinion. You get assigned a position and have to make the...
This clip is about impact, which is honestly the most overlooked part of making an argument. Most people can make a claim and back it up with some evidence. But if you don't tell people why it matters, in concrete terms, you lose. A small argument with a huge impact can beat a strong argument with a weak one, because judges and audiences weight what they feel. "This leads to X" hits harder than "this is bad."
The other thing people miss is that your opponent doesn't have to beat your evidence. They just have to break the link between your evidence and your impact. If they can show your evidence doesn't actually lead to the scenario you described, your whole argument falls apart even if the facts are right.
There are millions of people who debated in school and have nothing as adults. No clubs, no leagues, no tournaments. We're building that. Local debate clubs that feed into real championships.
superdebate.org
How would one go about finding engineers that can produce functionality similar to this, but recommending sentences from select news articles instead?
I’ve built a few startups that have had some success but ultimately were shut down due to poor profitability. I spent 2 years working freelance with early stage startups he Ping with product strategy and testing hypothesis. I spent the last 8 months working as a Product Manager for a fast growing startup, but left because I didn’t like the product enough to work 60 hours a week.I know how to...
I would like to learn more foundational mathematics. I am a business professional who also knows some software development. My goal is ultimately to have a more nuanced understanding of statistics, economic theory, and principles that will help me better understand the sciences. The last math class I took was in high school (13 years ago) and was probably geometry.I'd like to determine where to...
We believe that peer-to-peer, community driven, education is one of the best ways that our small team can meaningfully impact the world.
The more effectively we can disseminate meaningful information, while also building connections between people, the easier it becomes to solve every other world problem.
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Who could I talk to about this?
We've been working on www.helpwith.co for about 1.5 years, first as part-time, then full-time. I'm incredibly proud to say that as a Christmas present, before spending time with his family, my CTO just pushed the last features (trading, transactions) required for the MVP of our peer to peer learning marketplace. I would love any feedback the community has and will certainly reciprocate!
Technically, HelpWith is in over 100 cities, but we're focussing primarily on the Pacific Northwest. This is largely because cities like Portland are already more amenable to the type of ethos that makes the success of such a sharing economy platform possible.
We're building a successful, community-based model, then we plan on scaling.
I'd love to answer any questions.
My startup (www.helpwith.co) is built on meteor.js, and we're having bit of trouble testing across different mobile devices and OS versions. Most testing software is either for conventional sites or native apps (not single page JS apps).I've seen dozens of saas options out there for multi device testing, but there is too much noise in that space that it's hard to determine which option would be...
That's why we're working on www.skillsesh.com