Few questions about c0d3r
So yeah came here from reddit. First of all, kudos for making a real stuff guys!
I can feel all you guys are young and can see multiple folks like subhadeep maji and ishika prasad coming from founding team and engaging lively with folks.
Few questions about the platform (and would have contacted one of the founder's personally, but hey this is a social media so just as well may shoot the questions in open)
Someone else also asked about it, but beyond the leo memes and a bit of styles what is the usp? It may not have come out yet, but I see users clearly starting to make it a new LinkedIn with again the same old DSA and coding guidances. According to your reddit post and motto writing in website, you are not supposed to have such brainrot here. So, key question here is, what is the usp?
Social media business is notoriously hard due to spam, scam and bots. Would love to know how you guys are planning on that from day 1? Cause as a old buddy of a failed social media founder I see some almost spam posts coming already and as you scale, posts will scale atleast o(n^2) and as y'all are coders you know it will only get harder.
No great product has been ever built on hating other product. Pick and read some examples. For relevance, koo was everyone's favorite, but it's one sighted hate or competition with Twitter made it fail eventually. Question is, your motive or about writings mention LinkedIn 2-3 times and having a job board this early doesn't help either to compare this tool directly with LinkedIn. So, question is, why even mention LinkedIn? Just be c0d3r, the first of it.
What is the pricing others are bothered about? Is there something I'm missing? I'm using your web version and don't see locked features.
Before you come to answer, I have a few requests.
Please don't answer long gpt paragraphs. Entrepreneurs, atleast the successful ones, have very strong voices. So write even if small, human answers.
Your work yet is good. As I mentioned, social media business is serious and hard, and last one india successfully built is grapevine (closest competitor to what you are trying to build I can think of). So, good doesn't cut it, it should have a bit of genius and a touch of spark. Expecting the answer to this specifically in the usp part.
Please don't be defensive. Take this more as a genuine interested customer asking why I switch to coder instead of say grapevine or LinkedIn or something else. Tldr: kudos for starting nice, let others know the usp, and some other interesting things.
@shyambhu Mukherjee I have answered these in the shortest human-written possible way to all the points you have made, nearly the same length, except the first point
We don’t want this to be the next LinkedIn, and that’s why all the posts you see here, as Ishika said, will be more about figuring things out and learning as you go. No one is showing off over here. The sharing of coding guidance is people just sharing their experiences and knowledge, something even when done on LinkedIn, is appreciated. The only part we are trying not to do is the showing off, where everyone seems so successful, and no one shows the true struggle behind it. So far, there is no brainrot and flexing being done here. That's one value proposition. USP is us being a hyper-focused, dedicated community for coders, with us making job search and upskilling better for students and freshers, getting opportunities they might miss out on in the vastness and loudness of other platforms.
As of now, we have mods in place and a spam protection feature in control that can automatically flag or remove posts
We don’t hate LinkedIn, but just the pretentiousness you see over there. If we hated it, we wouldn’t have listed it on our footer. Even the good people, aka our target audience is present there since it’s the default platform, and it’s our responsibility to bring them on here— by giving them a safe place where they feel comfortable talking about everything that they couldn’t on there due to the need to be and sound successful and professional.
No pricing is available yet, it’s completely free, and even I’m just as clueless as to what the other person was talking about
Appreciate your lovely post asking us about what we do, especially so calmly. Thank you for signing up, we hope to see you as an active, engaged member:)
TLDR:
USP- We are a hyper-focused community. We are trying to make job search super easy for people, giving them access to more and better opportunities. There are events, webinars, and many things in the pipeline. This is a safe space for coders.
We don't hate LinkedIn, but only the pretentiousness of it.
Mods for removal,
No pricing yet