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To copy & paste a previous comment I made about the concept of "constrained supply": When discussing "platform economics", economists often like to identify the "constrained supply" because that dictates where to prioritize efforts. In Uber, the constrained supply is the drivers, not the passengers. In dating apps, the constrained supply is women, not men. In a Q&A website, the constrained supply is the expert answerers and not the question askers. (This matches our intuition that generating new questions is "easy" and a larger population can ask them but answering questions is "hard" and therefore it's a smaller population that can do it.)

For Acoto, the constrained supply is the "expert mentor". So it's logical to want to know about the benefits for the mentors... but when I try click on the link to in the landing page:

>Want to register as an expert? There are numerous benefits of partnering with us. Click here"

It's just a sign up page asking for mobile phone and email address. No benefits specified. Being opaque about this is not a good look.

parent jasode 6 years ago

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