Ramen - A whole new way to start up your startup

Co-founder here. Happy to answer any questions folks have about Ramen.

Welcome, @mathewsisson, and congrats on winning the LAUNCH hackathon (I'll be attending the next LAUNCH event this Feb). Going into the event, what did you have planned and did you already have code written? More generally, I'm curious to hear how the hackathon went for you and your team.

It looks like Ramen has pivoted to be more of a user feedback/collaboration platform.

@rrhoover Thanks Ryan! Happy to share! Going into the Hackathon, we met as a team a few times before we hopped on the plane to SF (no more than 10 hours in the same room). Basically, we talked about our vision for the product and how we could efficiently work with one another to make sure none of us became a bottle neck. I had basic wireframes put together, but you're not allowed to have any code committed until minute-one of the Hackathon. We realized very early on that we had planned much more than a lot of the teams there. We also took every opportunity to show our product and pitch to the Launch staff over the next 48 hours. We even took Jason up on meeting with him for 5 minutes (a privilege everyone had the opportunity to do). I could talk for hours about this, but if you're still interested in hearing more, we actually wrote a bunch about our experience on the Ramen blog. This one in particular goes more in depth about our experience: http://blog.ramen.is/development...

It's a really tiny detail, but the subtext under the CTA really won me over. "Discover Awesome New Startups Soooon"

@mathewsisson how did you get companies to participate in the Ramen partner program? What's the crucial part of the pitch? PS. @jringenberg i signed up for that same reason as well :)

@jringenberg @AdrianGrant Thanks guys! Now did you find the easter egg I wonder...? @AdrianGrant Regarding the partners, you first have to understand why we chose the services we did. After the hackathon, we compiled a list of all the services that saved us time and money, then we hopped on the phone with them and basically told them our story. The response was pretty consistent with all of them: "Why *wouldn't* we want to help more startups succeed?"

@mathewsisson I wonder if it has something to do with soooon hahah. Got it, so it's essentially finding synergistic partners where it's a no-brainer. Thx man

@AdrianGrant Yep and yep!