Show HN: Mix Opinions – maximize diversity at event mixers

https://www.mixopinions.com

by jadbox • 7 years ago

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jadbox• 7 years ago

Hey folks, I'm the founder of MO and have dedicated myself to creating services that help bring people of different views together online or within physical spaces. It's particularly meaningful work to me when living during an age of heightened political polarization and our social spaces have degraded to echo chambers.

Mix Opinions is an service to allow event organizers to create mixer discussion groups that maximizes viewpoint diversity of each formed group. The system is pretty simple: the organizer defines a series of viewpoint-based questions that people at the event will answer on their phones (via URL/barcode). Once users have answered, the system uses a specialized algorithm developed with the help of UCLA to assign users to groups, such that each group is maximized in its overall diversity. Users are then informed of which table/location to go to for their group, and will get a graph description of the mix of views that are held within their group. The app then simply provides icebreakers to get the conversation going within the group.

We've hosted at events at schools, universities, and political events in US, Austria, Germany, and the UK. Would love to get more feedback on the idea on how to grow this project as we're not very financially sound yet, even for being micro startup.

Show HN: Mix Opinions – maximize diversity at event mixers

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