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I don't understand what you are going to make.

Interesting idea. I'm having the classic reaction that people had to Amazon when it was new (don't people want to shop in person, touch the stuff? what if stuff needs to be bought same day?) - but am not sure if this means you're onto something :).

How would a farmer and a buyer find out about this marketplace?

Wow, kind of a crazy idea. I don't know how you get started on this. I do recommend learning to code yourself; at a very minimum, showing progress on learning to code will help you attract a technical cofounder.

How much money can I make for answering trivia correctly?

What is the history of trivia in advertising? I think it would be engaging, but I have never seen it (that I recall) on mainstream tv, so I can't imagine how I would react. Basically, why is nobody doing this already?

Hm, interesting; I'm excited about Slack based project management but my initial instinct is that this is not it. In particular, it looks like you don't integrate with Slack for the messaging component, instead choosing to build that piece yourself - is that correct? Why not defer to Slack on the messaging side and make it insanely easy to create items from slack, and reminders and so on?

Cute.

I know little about IoT -- explain how the language is abstracted? (last I worked on Arduino it was Processing/C++ I think). Does Favor compile down to the languages that are used, or how does this work?

To get users, instinct is to get your stuff in the hands of hardware bloggers / stores like sparkfun and hope that they start using it. Is that your plan?

Very nice. If I had a website I might be excited about this.

What is "standing up"?

I'm interested in your Flytrap language. Can you bring it to other platforms, like mobile?

This is very ambitious!

Has there ever been an educational game of this nature that was extremely successful? Oregon Trail, Civ, etc. don't count because they do their teaching through the environment. I'm not saying it would be impossible to make something really impactful, but I'd be worried about plowing a ton of dev effort into a new platform with lots of graphics PLUS enough ESL content to make it worthwhile and actually be fun.

Hmm though: I realized that English, at least written, is one of those things that people can improve at greatly through online interactions with others.

Anyway, the other fear I have about this product is that it seems like "a solution looking for a problem" -- it seems like you know ESL, and you are excited about VR, and you want to combine the two. But that's not the way to create a company; you need a market demand and then design a product to fill the demand.

Heh, did you watch "The Intern"? Thanks to that movie, I actually think this is a really awesome idea.

But, obvious two-sided marketplace. I think you are likely to hit bottlenecks on both sides. Are the signups willing to pay, and how much? I think that's the key to the whole thing. I also think you need to focus on a narrow niche. My grandma recently did this "Road Scholar" program, which might be similar in nature (all-inclusive trips targeted at sr citizens with a scholarly/educational component).

You spend a lot of time talking about what you're not (crowdsourcing) - but I don't fully understand what you are. Ballpark numbers would be really helpful for this.

OK, you have a network effect product and a two sided marketplace. How will you get users on each side of the market?

How much will an average household save if they go with you guys? I remember looking into this at one point in NYC, getting confused and thinking that the power companies were all pretty much the same. If you aren't saving people a substantial amount of money then it's not likely to be worth it for them to switch, which is my guess as to why so many users stick with the defaults.

Also, how will you get users? The reason I looked into it at all was that I was visited door-to-door, but I blew them off and only did the research when I realized they weren't completely full of shit.

Brings a whole new meaning to "pain point". I love it. As a person who needs dental work, I'd love to know which dentists in my region use your tech.

Your paragraph of text is making my eyes glaze over.

Wikipedia is popular because it is easy to use and shows up in search results. However it's not clear that your thing can or will be the same. I need a concrete example of how your thing will help me in order to be able to give further advice on the idea.

Hm, this is one of those ideas which (like daily fantasy sports) seems to be in a gray area around online gambling. I don't know if what you're doing is currently illegal, but it definitely is one of those things that (e.g.) the NY Consumer Finance people don't tend to like. So I think that's a big risk for the business. Maybe you can get around these somehow but is it really how you want to spend your life?

If you want my advice, I'd encourage you to work on something that makes the world a better place somehow. Then you can have the world (and the regulators) on your side, and that gives your business a higher chance to succeed in the long term.

Wow, this is really engaging. I love scrolling through photos and seeing them on a map, and I could imagine using this to plan my next travel destination.

I think this is very browsable if there is a lot of content, so I suspect your next step would be to somehow get the content from everywhere worth visiting as soon as you can, so that you can become a default destination for anybody planning a trip. How can you get the content?