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0 pointscrimsonalucard6y ago0 comments

2 issues have to be solved to get this to work. The app and idea itself is trivial.

First I need a full updated roster of employees of a company to confirm that an anonymous user is actually an employee of said company. Not sure how to do this in a fully secure and updated way.

Second user engagement. If I can figure out how to get one full company to use this as aggressively as they use slack, we'd be good to go to launch this in other companies.

Both are hard questions that I'm not sure how to answer or execute.

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Apocryphon6y ago

Blind already solves the first by mandating you use your company email to register. Of course, that means privacy is paramount, and you'd have to prevent situations where say management floods your system with dummy accounts. But that's at least a starting point.

The second point is definitely important. The problem too with having an anonymized place where users can vent and gossip, is that it can quickly become a toxic dump of FUD, similar to how Blind is now. And the smaller the organization is, the less likely people will want to speak out, for fear their anonymous words will be traced back to them.

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Apocryphon6y ago

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