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Hi! What a great personal project! I was trying to scrape a page and use GPT to analyze it, and then send me an email IF there was a certain type of (fuzzily defined) content on the page. How would I add the conditional check/step on the email block? Thanks!

On the surface your thought might seem valid, but it is not.

The reason a community like WomenMake is valid and important while something like MenMake is not, is because women have and still do face systemic discrimination in society, and in the workplace (and especially tech workplaces). You referenced this yourself (Global Gender Gap Index) so I assume you’d agree with that.

So women have a much harder time breaking into and progressing in the tech community, either systemically or even more explicitly through direct discrimination or abuse. WomenMake provides a valuable place for women to help each other through these issues that are specific to them, support each other in general and try to improve this imbalance. Men do not face these issues (although of course race, ethnicity etc are also issues, so many men face discrimination, but not because they are men, for other reasons).

Once women face no structural societal discrimination in the workplace, then something like MenMake and WomenMake might be equally valid, but until then you are not correct to make this comparison. (And at current rates this won’t be true for a very very long time).

Any service that stores/indexes information linked to a domain could use this to increase the recognition factor for the customer when listing a set of domains.

A great example is 1Password, when you type in the url of an account, it fetches the favicon and displays it when listing your accounts, making is very easy to quickly scroll and recognize what you want.

Contact info summary is great. Something I'd love to have is exporting friends' birthdays into my calendar. That and contact info is really all I need from Facebook.

Great post. Here's a similar post from my wife on being a "Women In Tech": https://medium.com/@kawomersley/why-talking-about-diversity-...

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Yes they are - I've seen another version of that chart and it was annotated with those dips being holidays.

Those salaries are low and that's a problem, but a nice 2 bed place in SF 10 min from downtown is what - $5000-7000/mo? The rent relative to income seem similar/worse in SF?

This is a seriously great list of high-impact possibilities - I especially like the alternatives to university. Your thinking is clear and logical. +1

I totally agree with this. It creates amazing short-term opportunity for many, but possibly at large cost to society long-term.

I also find it interesting that the two examples you gave, Uber drivers and Amazon shelf stacking, are two that will certainly be fully automated in the next 5 - 10 years.

I watched my trash collection truck last week, it had just the driver, and a robotic arm that picked up each trash bin and emptied it. I was just thinking "and it's the driver next".

Thanks!

That's an interesting point that we haven't encountered at all. I think open source projects aren't always set up for receiving money (and thus causing tax issues) whereas musicians would normally be set up to handle their taxes. In the sense that any additional income would have tax consequences this would too. But if any musician wanted to not receive tips we would gladly remove them from our index.

Thanks Matt! Give it a try and let us know how we can make it better!

Hey detaro, thanks for the comments. Artists can sign up and claim tips directly, we send the money and that's it! You can always see the status of your tips, and can also claim them back if they haven't been claimed. We want to be as transparent and accountable as possible.

Hey afandian, It's a similar concept, although tip4commit was causing issues with gaming/controller what gets works on, where as Huzza is for tipping songs and musicians that already exist, so we don't see the same problem happening. Happy to chat ping me at justin at huzza.io if you want to chat more.

Great! Let's us know if you have any feedback, we're building Huzza for you!

Thanks! Two ways: 1) The default currency is Bitcoin, so fees are so low we can achieve this. 2) With both Bitcoin and Credit Cards, we have a topup model where you topup with, say, $3, and then can send many tips until your balance runs out. This way we amortize the fees over 6 tips instead of 1

As the digital media world continues towards free (journalism first, and more recently musicians releasing their music for free) we need a new way to reward or compensate creators.

My startup, Huzza - http://huzza.io - is doing just that. It's an app that lets you tip any song or artist in the world from your phone. We like to call it pay-as-you-love, and we think it's the future of music.

Thanks for the great summary, saved me time and was a great snapshot of the take aways.

This is what we're aiming for - since there is no content being bought, it's really just a donation.

In terms of getting the money to the artists, this is definitely an important and difficult part - but we're going to start slowly, do things that don't scale and work it out from there. Out of interest, how do you see pledges and donations as different from a user's perspective?

Thanks for the feedback!

Thanks for the feedback!

1 - We're definitely focusing on transparency around tip statuses.

2 - Yes, agreed!

3 - Good idea!

4 - Great, thanks!

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Hi, thanks for the feedback! We agree that for now Bitcoins constrict us to a relatively small community - which is why we will be supporting credit cards in the near future! (And thanks for the link to Amazon micropayments +1!)

We plan to launch with only Bitcoins, and shortly thereafter add on credit card payments to go more mainstream.

Our mission is to enable anyone to tip any creator anywhere in the world - so educational content and others are definitely included in this! Music is just the starting point.

Yes, this is on our roadmap, and forms the core of our mission. To allow people to tip and reward creators of any kind, anywhere in the world!

We'll reach out to the artists and sign them up the Cheers - they will then be able to receive their tips in Bitcoin (recommended, and we'll help them set up a wallet) or fiat (slower, more complicated, minimum thresholds etc.). The exact process is still to be worked out.

Hi, thanks for posting your concerns, and I understand where you're coming from. Our visible payoff is creating a social network around payments - and while we will never charge fees on tips, there are many other services we can introduce to generate revenue. One example is later on allowing creators to actually sell their content on our network (to their fans) or having premium artist accounts to help them manage, engage and grow their fanbase. Other than this, can you think of any other ways we can convince you (and others) that we are not a scam?

Good question. For now we're just trying to make a product that both fans and artists are excited about and will use - a product we'd want to use. And since our initial product is tipping, we're committed to never taking a fee on these transactions. In the future, we may build-out a premium artist account, allowing them to get analytics around what is being Cheered, and built a platform for them to engage with and grow their fanbase. Additionally, while tipping will always be free, we could turn on product commerce where we may take a small fee.

Very good point, thanks. This was just the landing page, but you're 100% right. Adds to TODO list.

Yes! We're planning to integrate as many payment options as possible so this is definitely in the works.

Hi everyone, Cheers Cofounder here. We're trying to make the world a smaller place, connecting fans with those that make what they love, and enabling content creators. We'd love to hear feedback on our platform. Cheers!