This will be one of my favorite hunts of all time, I'm sure. Fredrik, its maker, has been hustling hard to track down corporate sponsors willing to trade $1 for a charitable tweet (I think the charities get on board pretty quick--promo and dinero together? We're in!)
Slack has very generously agreed to be one of the first sponsors, putting a sizable donation toward one of my favorite charities--Girls Who Code, a group organized to achieving gender parity in tech. Of course, if that isn't your thing, you can also choose Kiva, Watsi, or Effect International as your recipient--also amazing causes.
Overall, I am just excited to be able to hunt this product. Thank you for thinking of me, Fredrik. :)
UPDATE in March 2016: https://medium.com/@MrOlovsson/c...
Thank you so much for your kind words and for your patience, @KikiSchirr! We're stoked to be here, 8 months after hearing about Product Hunt for the first time, at a meetup featuring @andreasklinger & @lukasfittl (thx @designerdarius & @zainabiddin for the eye-opener).
Our goal with Creddon is to generate new revenues for good causes by “Empowering Slacktivism.” Imagine if the tweets with #iStandWithAhmed or #iLookLikeAnEngineer had given real donations to organizations working with diversity in tech? Creddon puts money into slacktivism, with the help of sponsors.
HOW IT WORKS: Pick a cause on Creddon and tweet it. Your tweet = $1 to the cause, donated by a sponsor. 100% goes to the nonprofit. UPDATE: Retweets also give $1 now (applied retroactively too)!
Today, we are proud to unveil Slack (https://www.producthunt.com/tech...) as a sponsor of Girls Who Code. Some of the other sponsors & causes include fellow Hunts Brisk.io (https://www.producthunt.com/tech...), TrackDuck (https://www.producthunt.com/tech...) and Watsi (https://www.producthunt.com/tech...).
@MelindaDinh and I look forward to hearing your feedback on the current product and how it should develop! We'll be answering comments here and also host a @blab (h/t @furqanr & @jnsdls) at 12 noon PST, everyone is welcome to join and Katya from wonderful @watsi will be there too! Subscribe here: https://blab.im/fredrik-olovsson...
A big thanks to everyone, especially Lab360 and the @StartupHouse crew, who has supported us on the way! Now, let's make some impact together! :-)
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Great work guys! What are your plans for integrating Creddon with Facebook and other social networks?
@zainabiddin Thanks, Zain! Basically we want to build what people want. The addressable user base is larger with Facebook and Instagram is made for photos, which we believe is a key part of our product (we're thinking about how to do campaigns around #selfie4good). So as long as we have sponsors onboard, we want to expand the capabilities!
Wow, my no. 1 advice for aspiring makers: Don't code the whole day up until launch, might miss something then ;-) Some early tweeters got tweets with test-captions. It should be fixed now!
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Personally, I really love the concept. Really wish you the best on your partnerships and making it a reality.
@melindadinh@mrolovsson congrats for this great product, simple and effective. kudos to the sponsors that have already joined...I look forward to seeing more coming on board and backing your causes.
@robertoscaccia "simple and effective," I like the sound of that! Indeed we're grateful for the sponsors who are taking the difficult first step to do something new!
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