Anonymous one-on-one chat app for the Ivy League

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8 points·aktwo··9 comments

While as an Ivy League student I relish in the potential that Stanford could be left out of this, heheh, these things are pretty inherently elitist and omegle has a similar function. Still, I signed up because I like meeting other Ivy students because there's some sort of weird vague bond between undergraduates, and that's at least something to make friends.

I tried to start a startup in a similar-ish space (more detailed student reviews of colleges). This is what I learned - https://medium.com/@adamzerner/case-study-of-a-failed-startu.... I'd be happy to chat/brain storm - azerner3@gmail.com

They say "we'll pair you with another Ivy League student", but I wonder what they do to prevent alumni, professors, and staff from joining? Would people be as willing to use this if they knew that it didn't solely consist of students?

Hey! We filter out known alumni email addresses (e.g. alumni.princeton.edu) but there's no way for us to differentiate between non-students and students if they both have a "student" email address.

Alumni email addresses are sometimes filterable, due to a different domain, but faculty or staff generally aren't; at many schools, students, faculty, and staff get indistinguishable email addresses.

I considered trying to sign up as an alum to test it out, but decided that I don't really have any interest in chatting with random Ivy League undergrads even if just for testing purposes.

Surprised to see Terms of Service and a Privacy Policy for a project so (seemingly) early and small.

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