Hey Product Hunt
My cofounder and I are Stanford alums and our team has previously built several apps that were featured by Apple.
I'm excited to be revealing Funder. We describe it as "Startups are silly. Let's make fun of them." and I think you'll love it.
Funder is the first app from Lemonade.io, a team on a mission to measure and improve creativity. By playing this game, you are contributing to the world’s largest research dataset for creativity assessment and education.
Here's some more information about the app:
Not buying the Silicon Valley hype? Create your own slogans for those “world-changing” tech companies to tell the real story.
In this satirical social game set in the fabled Valley, use your wit and creativity to disrupt the industry and climb the ladder from Intern to Keynote Speaker to VC and beyond.
Start by 'investing' in the most hilarious startup taglines with a simple upvote, and you'll unlock the ability to write your own. Write some parody pitches, and soon you'll be creating your own companies and raising funding like Elon Musk. Win over hearts and minds with a clever pitch, and it may even blossom into a Unicorn.
Invest in hilarious content from people you know, and grow your bottom line by supporting their vision with stacks of seed-funding.
@matthui Great question!
Other people have tried to use ML to understand creativity but are limited because there is very little data in the world about how creativity works. Through engaging consumer apps, we hope to crowdsource a dataset that is orders of magnitude better in size and quality. We're working with leading academics in the field to leverage the data from this app to further human understanding of creativity.
Because software is eating all non-creative jobs, we think creativity is the most valuable skill for the 21st century. Therefore, knowing how to measure and improve creativity is one of the most important problems out there for enterprise, education and individuals.
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@preetangad Unlocking levels by upvoting and pitching is addictive. And so much fun :)
@mossibat We want everyone to know what it's like to be a Thought Leader :D
Jokes apart, the app is based on the Consensual Assessment Technique by Teresa Amabile (Stanford/Harvard), which is considered the gold standard in creativity assessment. It showed that creativity is not as subjective as we think it is, and there is a high amount of consensus when people are asked to rank creative output by others.
If Shakespeare wrote everything in Google Docs and we could see his "Revision History", think about how much we could learn about how his brain worked that we can't know from just reading the finished product.
The data in the app could show us some amazing patterns about how people create. For example, are people who read lots of pitches by others more or less likely to create good stuff themselves? Are there people that are consistently more creative than most, and what patterns are predictive of that? How does the ability to consistently identify creativity relate to the ability to be creative? Does your creativity go up on average as you continue to use the app for practice, inspiration and feedback? Eventually, can we replace the need for the crowd to vote and teach a computer how to assess how creative something is?
Our future roadmap is to build apps that help people and organizations improve creativity. The data from this app will help us build intelligence so we can go in the direction of a less crowd-based and more individual/group based interaction.
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@preetangad haha. You're doing a great job at that. How are you crunching the numbers in the backend?
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@preetangad from the current results you seem like a spray and pray investor whereas @jakedoering is a portfolio operator vc 😂😂
@mossibat Until now, the focus has been on making the app as awesome as possible. @dawncardon is doing data analysis for now but we're planning to recruit a full-time ML expert soon, if you have any recommendations. We're also considering letting some academics have access to our data so they can write papers about it.
@nivo0o0 Thanks Niv. Glad you like it :)
We prototyped almost 100 apps that help people practice creativity but none of them was as fun as Funder and we're pretty proud of how it turned out.
These are great. People are wonderful! A few thoughts:
1. It would be great to be able to riff off of other pitches. I think some of the best commentary--the stuff that's the most unexpected and delightful--comes as a bit of a back and forth.
2. I am maybe just a dummy but how do I actually write a pitch? I can't figure it out for the life of me
@_tessr Hey Tess! 1 is a great idea. We're working on a feature that's similar to forking on github so people can do that!
Before you can write pitches, you first have to upvote a few pitches to unlock pitching.
@_tessr yeah we did some experimental stuff with unlocking features slowly instead of explaining everything onboarding. It seemed to work well in user testing but we're closely watching the data :)
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