kl2931

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Co-Founder of Elpha – Elpha is a private online community of women in tech, centered around a daily feed of user-generated conversations on personal and professional topics. Elpha is built by and for women and provides access to opportunities, advice and resources, all through the female lens.

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1 kl2931 7 years ago 0 comments

Comment · 7 years ago

Ha, we chose the name Elpha by riffing on the word alpha and the idea that we wanted to create a place where women come first. We combined alpha with the French word for she (“Elle”) to create ellepha. We shortened it to elpha from there. Plus, the .com was available. :)

Comment · 7 years ago

Sure, that's a great idea. We will fix it in our sign-up form as well.

Comment · 7 years ago

Elpha is built on Rails and is using React on the frontend.

Comment · 7 years ago

Yes, please email us [email protected]!

Comment · 7 years ago

You can definitely join - you can put in your website, or anything other link that we can verify your identity. Let us know if you run into any trouble [email protected]

Comment · 7 years ago

Can't agree more! There are only 3 of us, and we have so much to do, resources like material design really help us speed up the design & dev process.

Comment · 7 years ago

Happy to hear that! :)

Comment · 7 years ago

Hi, designer/cofounder of Elpha here. Thank you for the comment! It is tricky to design a UGC site for women, and we aim for friendliness/neutral than feminine. Glad you like Chiswick!

Comment · 7 years ago

Thank you! And yes, many of our members are based outside of the US, and we'd love to have more international members to broaden the perspective and discussion topics.

And we're a for-profit company. :)

Comment · 7 years ago

You can read our AMAs with industry experts, and we have more public content coming soon.