Benjamin Plesser

SmallTalks was born from my personal experience dating in NYC, where I struggled with the apps for quite a while before eventually figuring things out! I've found, through speaking with users and spending a ton of time on dating apps, that most online daters are not strategic about designing profiles even though it's immensely important to be intentional about that process. Online dating is a...

Wow, I see some heavy hitters in sports upvoting. Thanks gusy!

Initially, I was going for a real-time Stack Overflow for open ended coding questions. It was similar to HipChat but with live video and coding features like a runnable web IDE and client to stream terminal IO. People were more interested in structured classes, so I decided to head in that direction (reusing lots of features)

Thanks @rrhoover! Forcing function is exactly right. Even among motivated people, it's tough to stay on top of self-paced online courses -- life gets in the way and it's too easy to defer work. With EngineHere, you know that there's a real human being waiting for you in the online classroom every week (or bi-weekly) at a specific time. It's a nice added incentive.

Hi everyone, I built EngineHere to provide a live learning environment for beginner level up to advanced coders. It's a bit like Google Hangouts, but with classroom features which make expressing coding concepts simpler. Here's an example (https://www.enginehere.com/stream/428/internet-architecture-basics/) Ultimately, we're going for a middle-ground between completely self-paced, asynchronous...