Misha and I have been exploring fintech startup ideas together. During the process, we thought it would be fun to quickly explore the idea of Benjamin - a pseudonymous app centered around your ledger (net worth).
There's a lot of new information exchange that becomes possible, similar to the way the 'Blind' app works for employees. For example, if you're earning a high income but struggling to payoff debt, you might want to talk to others in a similar situation. Both sides can maintain anonymity for protection.
We're still early in development, but looking to get the idea out there for feedback and collab.
Hello, Sisun!
I think Benjamin sounds very cute.
Accept my congratulation with a great start!
Can I invite my friends in this community from direct link?
@sisunlee Your idea sounds really cool, I really liked it :)
But I would recommend you to improve your website design. This really has a big impact on visitors. If you want to achieve significant success, then you should develop a cool website.
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@sisunlee@kaiser_design Thank you Ben, it's just an example of one the groups having that age requirement.
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Girls be like:
Damn, is this the new Tinder???
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This app is creating a massive honey pot for hackers. The data is super valuable. It should be totally open source and built on zero-knowledge proofs.
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@mikestaub Thank you! I should remind people that just because there's no announced breach or a post and a dump on breachforums or whatever DOES NOT MEAN that any particular service have not also suffered a breach. This includes cases where they lack the knowledge or intentional acts that obfuscate the case. Some leaks are too valuable to share or sell. Some are kept because the value isn't immediately clear. Most are done with a degree of automation and keeping a small footprint is important because of, to use the cliche, known unknowns at the very least.
My official ENS address has $300 worth of Eth in it and that's it. It's not an accident.
This is cool and definitely the future of specialised SoMe's. The concept actually work. I'm in one of these vetted communities and the network effect sticks. What kind of verification process is used? Can it be used for crypto? Like someone would sign a receipt with their private key etc? And if so, what's is the lowest amount you have to prove you have?
This is really fascinating concept. What’s the traction been this far?
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Neat idea, congrats on the launch! I could see there being a bunch of value in creating this sort of verified community of financial "peers." Have you thought about how cross-community collaboration might work? For example, having people with positive net worth who were previously in debt provide insights to people in debt on how they got out of it, or enabling someone in their 30's with a goal of getting to $1M net worth to connect to someone in their 40's who achieved that? It seems like there are lots of different avenues this could go down (some perhaps more productive and positive than others) and facilitating upward mobility could be a real positive. It seems like you may already have some of that, but I wasn't entirely sure.
@adam_fry great idea. i think there's a ton of different ways to create membership rules around your financial situation - income, spending habit, debt, asset type, investment type, 401k, total wealth, etc, and can overlap with age, location, gender, profession, etc
Super interesting idea, I love the idea of bringing community to such a covert subject like personal wealth and I think the Blind comparison is great. With that it felt like there was a joint subject for community members to cheer/complain about, I’d assume gaining & managing wealth are those same comparables - at least for me!
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