Balaji S. Srinivasan
@balajis · CEO of 21.co and Board Partner at a16z.
21 allows you to replace your public email with an inbox that pays you. The idea is that you set up a 21 profile (like 21.co/naval) and people outside your network can now pay to contact you. You can keep the money or donate it to charity. It's like LinkedIn InMail, except you actually get paid :) And we use bitcoin under the hood, so it works in any country.
You can sign up for a profile and answer messages on either web (at 21.co) or mobile (at ios.21.co).
Note that "answering a message" is only the simplest task that the 21 webapp and app support. You can also complete surveys and do more complex things. You will see one of these surveys in the tutorial when you boot up the app; more are coming. But right now, the primary source of tasks will be paid messages to you from people outside your network. And the simplest way to solicit more such messages is to put your 21.co profile link on your homepage or Twitter bio, like this or this.
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Adithya Shreshti
@adithya · Founder of Startuposphere
@balajis Everyone here would have complimented the idea behind the product and its implementation - no doubt 21.co is the first of its kind that helps you avoid the spam that is generated on day-to-day basis and at the same time that provides you 'quality' connects and potential network of wonderful people.
Here is something no one else would have told you: The combination of Black and Gold looks awesome - especially on an iPhone. :-)
Kudos to the 21.co team @balajis :-)
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Nate Murray
@eigenjoy · IFTTT
@balajis I miss having you on Twitter
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Duane Wilson✌️
@helloduane · Design, Technologist, Helper of Startups
@balajis Super! logged in via facebook, created username, verified email, had prompt to login again, did so, login window persists... am logged in and can click other tabs but that initial empty state is confusing IMHO. Looking forward to using this and adding other nonprofits 👏
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@shakurgreen
Signed up. I'm curious to see how this plays out. Great idea @balajis!
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Rick Chen
@rick_chen1 · making people lazy at instantaccess.io
Love the idea and it's huge potential, looking forward to seeing what other tasks are there besides surveys and outside network contacts.
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Arun Sathiya
@arunsathiya · Product marketing Freshdesk | Strikebuys
@balajis great idea there, Balaji! Can reduce spam messages, I bet.
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billy smartt
@bsmartt13 · unemployed for two weeks! Free man!
@balajis This was one of the cleanest launches I've ever seen. Signed up on web, got the email verification notification on my phone, which linked to the ios app, everything worked seamlessly, and both products felt very mature. Logo and UX are very well done. I'm quite impressed!
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