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Vu Tran

Vu Tran

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Covi

Speech enabled lamp & open source smart home hub

CollegeBacker Gifts

Give the Gift of College Savings

Jotengine

Turn your audio into easy to use transcripts

Pack

Makes it simple to find the best roommates.

Lure Squad

Earn rewards for playing Pokémon Go

Wefunder

The law changed. Invest $100+ in startups you love.

Color Dating

Tinder for interracial dating

Receipt Donkey

Track receipts and store them in the cloud.

SlideMail

An email app that can think

SmartHires.io

A candidate referral network between startups

Hiring and Recruiting

ZIIBRA

Shop directly from talented artists & makers

TestMunk

Mobile QA made easy

Flow

Precise low cost wireless control dial (pre-launch)

bitcoinusername.com

Search For Bitcoin Users in the Blockchain

SlideMail

What if your email app could think?

The 1099 Workforce Survey

Understanding the world's fastest growing working class

Kash

No card fees & no chargeback payment API

Joined on August 1st, 2014

85 points

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With hardware Kickstarters, there's probably more risk to it than others but I've known @tobias_eichenwald for a while, and they've already had a successful hardware product Kickstarted and delivered to customers. Simply put, these guys from Senic are wicked smart, genuinely passionate and build insanely cool shit. My question as a hacker is, how customizable will Covi be? For example, can I change the trigger word from "Alexa" / "Covi" into something else?

4yr ago

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@super_haik Hey, thanks for the response. Maybe I wasn't clear, but what I meant to explain is that overtime, I felt like the racial judgment against me wasn't necessarily a bad thing. It's hard, if not impossible to control who you're attracted to and didn't mean they didn't like me as a person. Instead, we're trying to focus on facilitating a better experience and environment.

on Color Dating

5yr ago

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Founder here. We started Color Dating as a side project but since it started gaining traction and we figured we'd post it here. I know it's a bit of a touchy subject, and it's slightly embarrassing for me as it's quite personal but I wanted to share our story. As many of us know, OkCupid has released several studies they've done on race, and it clearly shows that if you're a race other then white, you're statistically less desirable. I've experienced this feeling in the real world as well. I've been rejected more than once with the justification of, "I'm just not attracted to Asian men". At first, it was something that I was quite flustered with as I felt it wasn't something that I could physically change about myself. It felt like the world was stacked against me and I felt like I was somehow disadvantaged. Overtime I came to understand that physical attraction and people's preferences doesn't really say anything about your own personality. It's not necessarily bad. Just as I can't control my race, it's hard for those to control who they're attracted to. On the opposite end, I've met many people that were almost exclusively attracted to men / women outside of their own race but felt like it was too much of a taboo to pursue them. I even met an Asian girl who was attracted to black men and her family threatened to disown her. Yikes! It's 2016 people! Hence we decided to release these apps in hopes that we can help facilitate a more positive message on interracial dating. Hopefully we can play a small part in helping to take down some of these negative stigmas around the world someday :). Thanks for reading.

on Color Dating

5yr ago