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I have a few domain names that I have been holding on to for a few years and I think it's about time to let them go. Wondering if there is a good marketplace to just list them and make some cash for a new hobby.

I recently moved to Bay Area and I am looking to connect with some local network of engineers, entrepreneurs etc. A lot of events have gone virtual so it is very hard to network and make "friends" at these events.

What has been you process to keep expanding your professional network?

I have been calling a lot of dental offices lately to schedule an appointment for my daughter and realized that most of them just leave me hanging with a "leave a message and pray that we get back to you" mode.

I wonder if there are any meaningful ways to improve this experience? I guess having a "bot" answer my questions would be one way but beyond that could it provide some smart knowledge from just transcribing my voicemail and understanding the request and updating the CRM or something.

PS: Just a Saturday evening thought.

I feel like there are so many job listing sites for remote jobs (i.e. remoteok.io, weworkremotely.com etc) but there aren't many that are focused on the opposite.

Is there a gap here?

Has anyone here found a good tool to run fundraising process? I am using a combination of Notion, Docsend, Emails, Dropbox etc to run it and frankly it is a pain to manage it.

So just wondering if anyone else here has a tool or process that works well for them.

Looking into the whole ICO stuff and thought I would ask more knowledgable folks here if they could help me steer in the right direction.

What kind of companies should (or have) raised money via ICO instead of VC? Can a b2b SAAS company raise money via ICO?

Pros? Cons?

Hi HN! I launched BotMock yesterday. The tool allows bot designers / developers to quickly build a prototype and test out conversation flows and even create some sales presentation material before investing $$ or hours in development.

Would love to get your feedback on it.

Check it out at http://botmock.com

Have you ever thought of creating that awesome bot but you are not sure how the interaction would work? The only option you have is to hack together some code to try and create a bot just so you can test the conversation structure, or even test out your idea!

And if you don't know any programming, well you are kinda stuck.

So we ran into this exact same problem while creating a spec for our own Facebook bot project. So naturally, we reached out to other developers and designers in our network to see what are they using and lo behold, they are as frustrated as us.

So we ended up creating our own internal tool that allowed our design team to create different conversation mocks and even test them out within browser or extract it as a gif or mp4.

People in our network are loving it. So we are creating a product out of it. And we are looking for early testers to help us polish this up. We are giving heavy discounts to those who signup at this stage.

Check it out at http://botmock.com and please do leave your feedback. Happy to answer any questions that you might have.