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Hi HN,

I like to introduce ForGrowth.

TLDR: ForGrowth is a platform which provides control to you as a user in consuming the content you want. You can choose granular topics and locations and get personalized content (Jobs, Events, News, & Insights) matching them.

Like many of us, I track a lot of topics (technology, sectors) by subscribing to forums (like HN, reddit), newsletters and twitter accounts. I face challenges in discovering the right opportunities and insights matching me & my exact needs.

For eg. assume I am a frontend developer from Newyork and subscribe to a newsletter for Javascript. If I repeatedly see all the Javascript jobs / events / meetups listed in the newsletter are from SF Bay area, I would start ignoring the newsletter.

In other words, personalized content which will be useful to my context is missing. On the other end, we are shown unsolicited advertisements in the auto-profiling content platforms (like Facebook) when we consume content for a different context.

We hope to fix this with ForGrowth.

ForGrowth is starting with a personalized newsletter and webapp. You choose granular topics and locations. We send hand curated content (Jobs, Events, News, & Insights) every week matching your preferences. Nothing more. Nothing less.

As a webapp user, you can search, filter & bookmark contents. For now, its free for readers to subscribe as many topic editions as they want. We have started to send our platform invites.

We are starting with a small list of topics & locations (sanfranciso bay area, newyork & remote) split across platforms (given below). We would expand them soon based on the user feedback and interests.

Skills Topics - https://skills.forgrowth.io/?ref=hn

Opensource Topics - https://opensource.forgrowth.io/?ref=hn

Impact Topics - https://impact.forgrowth.io/?ref=hn

Please try it out. We would love to know your ideas, questions and feedback.

Hi HN,

I like to introduce ForGrowth (https://www.forgrowth.in).

ForGrowth is a platform which provides personalized career opportunities and insights based on the topics of interests, location, skill level. We also help you to choose a diversity & inclusion preference as well. (We are starting with Open/Everything & LGBT tracks).

While there are lot of newsletters and social media sites for tracking specific topics, the content provided by them is typically generic/common to all the audience and therefore has less signal to noise ratio for an individual. We believe we can improve this by providing personalized content based on the user provided choices.

We are starting with a small list of topics, locations, levels and tracks. We would expand them based on the user feedback and interests soon.

In an ideal world, everyone would have access to same opportunities and resources at all times. We are still not there. Either it is lack of time or lack of social/economic privileges or society is not taking steps to create an inclusive/diverse environment - which creates disadvantages among people to access right opportunities and resources at right time.

We believe we can help people to solve this challenge one small step at a time.

Please let us know your ideas and feedback. It would help us to improve it.

1. Anecdotes - Successes / Failures stories 2. Best practises for a "x" activity with Geographical relevance. What works in US might not work everywhere & vice versa

I understand not all startup information can be objective and same. But there are many activities repeated by many startup founders which shouldn't require browsing through all the blogs.I know there are places like onstartups / qoura in q & a format. Are there any websites in a different format for a quick reference and increased inspiration to achieve success. There are many gems in hn comments that are buried inside.

I am primarily looking for the following

1. Anecdotes - Successes / Failures stories 2. Best practises for a "x" activity 3. Geographical relevance. What works in US might not work everywhere & vice versa.

Any advice?

I am building an app to record student data about their academic and non-academic achievements/interests. The latter part is not captured in any system and so we collect it from scratch.

The challenge is to authorise whether the data recorded by students is right. I met educational institutions/staff and it is apparent that it is a big pain which they are not willing to take.

Is there a best approach in solving this problem of collecting authentic data? Its a major hurdle in providing an useful solution and I like to understand whether similar problem in different domain is solved in any unique way which we can try out.

Also the number of students is in thousands.

I thought about quitting my job and start entrepreneurship. Presently trying to do it in part time - moonlighting. Reality - Iam not able to work satisfactorily in part time doing both.

My idea involves Software but it is not pure play web application.It is more of a platform where software/webapp is one component. I am passionate about the idea to be present in the real world.

So I have a dilemma

- Is Entrepreneurship all about creating what the world want now by pivoting your ideas and making a business model around it. (In that case it is not about the motivation behind your idea but more about serving the people,running the show by yourself and making money eventually.

or

- Is Entrepreneurship all about creating something which is not existing in the real world. Doing it no matter what it takes and finally realizing it in true form what you envisaged - In this case it is about the idea which acted as a motivation to start and less about the money/leverage or the immediate low hanging fruits.

Sub question :

What is the best way to test your idea while on the job before getting in full time? Or it is best to attempt by doing it in full time ?