Nice Work and nice design (works perfectly on my phone), I still do have a question: what is the added value from your competitors like angel.co for example?
Thanks!
That's an interesting question, and one that I've only started to address for myself quite recently.
This originally started out as a hobby project (I was a freelance web developer, but I'm now working as an IT Director at a startup I helped co-found a few years back, so I want to keep my web development active), but it's done better than I thought it would. I'm getting 3-5 submissions a day, and so I've decided to put more effort into it and figure out how to differentiate it from the likes of angel.co and other similar sites.
Angel.co, for example, is geared more towards raising funding from syndicate investors, and acting as a mini news outlet for that startup. Newborn, on the other hand, presents the startup, and gives enough information to allow the reader to decide whether or not they wish to visit their website, or download their app. Rather than trying to keep the reader on Newborn for as long as possible by having all the information there, I want to, in sense, hand over that reader to the startup, and allow them to finish the conversion process. It's their startup, after all!
So in essence, Newborn's added value is that is showcases startup at their early stages, gives the reader the information they need to make a decision (as to whether they'll find out more), and then let them do what they want.
Hi Mz,
I don't understand why you are judging an idea with such cruel words without knowing how it works yet. And yet I'm still interested in your opinion without having you treating me as a scam or conman.
Thank you for being more comprehensive and a little bit less accusing.
First of all thank you for your input, but I think there is misunderstanding here and it is probably my fault as I'm not giving enough details for now. So allow me to clarify : it is not an insurance.
You put it awfully obnoxious when you say that people can predict a billion dollar company when it is still in a basement, but isn't what investors and incubators do? They believe in the "born idea" and they nurture it by supporting it with investments, training, coaching, tips etc... It's a way to predict the value of those dreams, and drop the failure rate to the minimum (38% in the case of YC). So what about an abstract layer above all this that can make drop this rate even more?
I will respectfully decline your suggestion to do something else, because the idea is maybe strange, but it is viable even if I can't talk more about it and most important: I really believe in it.
