Comments on post “7 Questions”
Ben Tossell
@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
Who do you decide who to interview?
Would be good to get a lot more diversity on there!
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Darren Moore
@darrenmoore488 · Co-Founder of QuickQuu and TweetPilot
@bentossell So far it has been a case of emailing founders on Product Hunt, BetaList etc.
In terms of diversity, don't worry, we've noticed! We'd love to get a far more diverse range of people of all ages, genders and race. For some reason, we're struggling to attract female founders.
But anyone can apply to be interviewed by dropping us an email: https://7questions.co/contact/
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Chris Messina
@chrismessina · 🏆 PH Community Member of the Year!
@darrenmoore488 @bentossell yeah, 1 out of 27 (in the screenshot anyway) isn't very representative... that's pretty awful. I generally appreciate what you're trying to do, but getting a diverse range of participants is critical to making this project worthwhile. I also suggest that it'll take more effort than a "hey female founders! go fill out our form!" approach. It's going to take some real effort, but IMO it'll pay off.
You might take a look at @helena's Techies project for inspiration.
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Darren Moore
@darrenmoore488 · Co-Founder of QuickQuu and TweetPilot
@chrismessina @bentossell @helena The form was put in the comment above simply to attract any one who wants to apply to be interviewed.
The point I was making however was that we have not discriminated against any type of person and have emailed a lot of female founders along with male founders. The difference, for whatever reason, is that male founders have responded.
Presumably Product Hunt should also be actively targeting women to comment more seeing as 100% of the comments currently are from males?
Sorry to rant, but of all the things we were expecting to be said about 7 Questions, it certainly wasn't that we were being discriminative.
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Chris Messina
@chrismessina · 🏆 PH Community Member of the Year!
@darrenmoore488 @bentossell I'm not trying to shame/blame you—I should have started by congratulating you on your launch! Perhaps a better way to offer this feedback would be to say that: 1) Great work! Would love to hear from a diversity of voices now that you're live! 2) Man, it can really be tough to get a diversity of folks to participate in stuff like this...! Here's one place you might look for inspiration... [link to Techies project]
I don't take back my feedback, but I could have offered it more constructively.
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Darren Moore
@darrenmoore488 · Co-Founder of QuickQuu and TweetPilot
@chrismessina @bentossell Feedback appreciated obviously and I hope you can understand my defensiveness. Thanks for taking the time to comment!
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ryan kulp
@ryanckulp · retired developer turned musician
@bentossell actual diversity == difference of opinion.
it's a cop-out to assume people who look different than us *must* think different too. not true, and frankly it's assuming/judgmental.
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