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Dalton Caldwell

Simbi - Network to exchange talents and services

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Liz Tsai
This is super interesting! I love the idea of being able to reduce the friction between service bartering without having to go through cash$ as an intermediary. I'm not entirely sure what skills I have anymore but I'll be taking this for a spin soon. Is there a way that the platform suggests skills that you might have from social media by any chance?
KJ Erickson
Maker
@elizabethtsai Check out https://simbi.com/quiz We do find that people can take a while to realize just how many skills they have. We don't yet have a way to pull your skills from social media directly, but the quiz should help jog your memory on how talented you really are :)
Gordon Casey
Simbi is a fantastic implementation of a social currency - I'm an enthusiastic user and fanboy, and have been enjoying watching as more and more features are added and we all get increasingly engaged in the platform. Happy this got hunted!
KJ Erickson
Maker
@gordonwcasey Gordon -- so glad you've enjoyed it! Stay tuned for a lot more improvements from us in the coming months.
Brandon Foo
Simbi is awesome! Congrats, KJ! 💌
KJ Erickson
Maker
@foolywk thank you Brandon! I love Polymail!
Bigi Lui
Congrats KJ! Simbi is awesome. I love the variety of services on it.
KJ Erickson
Maker
@ilovetonkatsu appreciate the support, Bigi. We're growing the number of services by about 300 each day!
JR Rahn
Simbi is awesome. I was just thinking about what I could provide, I realized we all know a lot more than we offer. #untappedvalue #trillionsssssss
KJ Erickson
Maker
@jamon_alexander You got it! By my estimation, only about 20% of our skills reach the bar where we will sell them for dollars. But the rest of them are still valuable -- they just need a market-clearing mechanism. That's where we come in.
DJ Little
Very cool idea, KJ... I was working on something similar (Producia) for college campuses back in 2014 and one of the biggest challenges we came across in our pilot project was a lot of students didn't know what skills they had to offer other students. I'm a huge proponent for alternative economics and I even developed an economic model called Producism (http://producism.org). Would love to chat sometime :).
KJ Erickson
Maker
@imdrewlittle How cool. Let's definitely put our heads together. We have a Skills Quiz (https://simbi.com/quiz) to help people think about what they can offer, but mostly they realize from browsing other people's offers (https://simbi.com/services) and requests (https://simbi.com/requests)
DJ Little
@kjer that skills quiz is a really good idea! cudos to you and the team!
Kevin Wolf
Taking about Simbi with the founder now! https://www.facebook.com/loic/vi...
KJ Erickson
Maker
@kevin_wolf thanks for joining the Facebook Live!
Kevin Wolf
@kjer Such an awesome company!
Jamie Gordon
A search engine on your mobile site would be a user must. @kjer
KJ Erickson
Maker
@jamie_ross It's there! Tap the magnifying glass icon in the upper right corner.
Elizabeth
That's a super literal logo. Relatively cute though & more welcoming that whatever MC Escher-eques logo you'd make for more of a "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" direction. Nice place to start bartering if you're not exactly liquid, interested to see if it somehow works 'symbiotically' with the cash economy.
Shahin
Sounds interesting. Good luck!
KJ Erickson
Maker
@shahinix thanks Shahin!
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