Comments on “Lowercase Alpha
Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
I always want to know what kinds of startups (and founders) @mazzeo and @sacca are investing in over @lowercase I do need to be able to add a UK number though ;)
Jackson Dahl@jacksondahl · Lowercase Capital
@bentossell We're US-only for now, unfortunately. We're working to take international numbers in the future!
Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@jacksondahl nope... going to have to get me on there somehow ;) cc @mazzeo So how did you get involved Jackson? Are all the products that are sent out for people to use, invested in by Lowercase?
Jackson Dahl@jacksondahl · Lowercase Capital
@bentossell Product-wise, it'll be a mix of portfolio companies and friends of Lowercase. Matt brought me on as a coordinator back in September!
Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@jacksondahl Awesome - what product have you seen and used in that time that is your favourite? From the mix of companies can you see a pattern of what companies we may be seeing a lot of in 2016? I'm assuming 'AI' will be the letters (word?) that will be over-used and then used in the wrong context. Also (slightly off-topic), what is the best and worst t… See more
Jackson Dahl@jacksondahl · Lowercase Capital
@bentossell I'm actually pretty pumped about our first candidate for Alpha, which involves mobile video curation. More to come there ;) Also really love what the Rex team is building around recommendation from friends and people w/ great taste. We've been doing a lot of investments in "dirty" industries -- projects that are not quite as sexy or flashy, and … See more
Myna Moments@tomflemming · Chance vs Opportunity
@bentossell UK numbers +1
John Doherty@dohertyjf · Founder, Credo (GetCredo.com)
@bentossell Google voice number, Google voice app to receive texts? Or Google voice and authenticate it with WhatsApp or some other messaging service? PITA but maybe a workaround :-)
Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@jacksondahl I look forward to dirty industries being cleaned up by technology SMS is one of the channels I'm unsure about... even giving out my number to receive an app link to download I'm hesitant. Signing up for this would be different though (because of the trust).
Jackson Dahl@jacksondahl · Lowercase Capital
@bentossell Yeah, I think trust is more essential here there anywhere else
Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@jacksondahl my mobile number is for people I know well and trust enough with it... takes knowing the people behind a company to be happy with that
Pulkit Agrawal@_pulkitagrawal · Building Better Onboarding @trychameleon
@jacksondahl @bentossell hey you might consider using sendsonar.com (from @MatthewBerman and @neewho) which does international numbers I believe
Andreas Mitschke@andmitsch · I own a computer
@bentossell We are doing right that - AI + social recommendation. Good to know that we are en vogue then :D
Jon Thompson@jont · Tech at Independents United
@jacksondahl @bentossell I'm working on a thing that might help, should have it done in a day or so, will let you know
Ian@ianmayman
@bentossell Thanks for adding that comment... saves me finding it's U.S-only (as with so many startups). Personally I have a U.S number from Hushed, so that's one option for things like this, but I'm still not sure it's worth it unless most suggested apps are available for "internationals" like us. :)