Sounds like an awesome opportunity for someone art focused with a tech background!
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We have 3 different offerings for this Summer. All incubator style, meaning you meet weekly or biweekly with mentors and we really try to help drive you from point A to point C.
1. $75k investment in a startup. MUST be serious about wanting to build something awesome and put in the hard work it takes to do so.
2. $16k funding in a much earlier stage project (idea stage / MVP stage). MUST be serious about commitment it takes to get to launch.
3. OPEN LABS: these are open to the entire community and you have access to the mentors. 10 min checkins each week & peer sessions. We've had TONS of amazing projects for our Open Labs in the Spring and we hope to see TONS more for the Summer.
In terms of MISSION and what we're looking for:
We started this new incubator out of Mozilla in order to work with & invest in developers, startups, and technology enthusiasts who are building things that will shape the internet and have a positive impact without needing to hyper focus on the bottom line. Projects, apps, & technologies that will be huge and a big part of the internet ecosystem while also being in line with Mozilla's mission of an open web & ethos of "Privacy over Profit".
Comment below if you have any questions about the programs and we'll be happy to answer them.
best thing to do is join our slack (https://join.slack.com/t/mozillabuilders/shared_invite/zt-el...), and join for open office hours and see if you can get feedback from one of the mentors.
regardless, you can def apply! no downsides.
Put the school you went to or the last company you worked at, if it still exists when you apply!
This is certainly not limiting and we know that there are more categories and just this, but it's a start.
We have some really good projects from this much smaller program, including https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/neutral/oagdejngkg... (Firefox extension releasing this week), https://ameelio.org/, and more!
So we're not entirely sure whether $75k is the right amount or not, BUT we do know that with $10k, we've had some really impressive projects.
Imagine you have a big vision to build something that betters the internet and you have only your life savings. Or you've been working on something for a while but haven't been able to put full effort into it.
This $75k is to kickstart teams & projects in "fixing the internet".
We have 3 different offerings for this Summer. All incubator style, meaning you meet weekly or biweekly with mentors and we really try to help drive you from point A to point C.
1. $75k investment in a startup. MUST be serious about wanting to build something awesome and put in the hard work it takes to do so.
2. $16k funding in a much earlier stage project (idea stage / MVP stage). MUST be serious about commitment it takes to get to launch.
3. OPEN LABS: these are open to the entire community and you have access to the mentors. 10 min checkins each week & peer sessions. We've had TONS of amazing projects for our Open Labs in the Spring and we hope to see TONS more for the Summer.
In terms of MISSION and what we're looking for:
We started this new incubator out of Mozilla in order to work with & invest in developers, startups, and technology enthusiasts who are building things that will shape the internet and have a positive impact without needing to hyper focus on the bottom line. We call this our ”fix-the-internet” incubator.
https://builders.mozilla.community/
LMK if you have any questions!
yes these are definitely the projects we're looking for. one thing to note would be: who is your target audience?
what we would like to see is a well defined target group and a product that meets that groups needs.
We communicate both synchronously AND asynchronously, i.e. we set up weekly or biweekly -- depends on your preference -- meetings with teams and also are available via email + slack.
Our methodology is to be as non intrusive as possible (it's your project!) but we try to guide you in thinking about problems in the right way, and we've found that a lot of value we add is when people are looking to onboard first users.
We help a lot with messaging, cold email outreach, but much more!
Just run this command:
/secure -set-url https://securesend.quantfive.org/
Will ping you when that's ready!
All you need to do is use a simple slash command
`/secure ...` and you'll be able to securely send images, files, or text through slack.
Check it out here: https://slack.securesend.quantfive.org/
The top 5-10 kids from each bootcamp per year probably make these high salaries. It's been years so there's a ton of them around. The others probably aren't making something this high.
We're using ReactJS with Redux which is really nice. It lets us pass data effortlessly and the whole ReactJS paradigm is just great.
We're using a couple of services -- Firebase to handle our coderpad and Sendbird to handle our chat.
Then we're using pretty vanilla webRTC to a server, so the peer connections aren't peer to peer, but peer to server to peer. This makes scalability better as well as connectivity (one guy who has really slow internet won't affect the group as much).
Then our application server is a simple NodeJS server that manages each individual room.
Everyone is able to see everything in the presentation area. We are working on being able to make the presentation area synced for everyone, so if you click on something, then it should show for everyone.
We'll make posts about product updates and roadmap things and probably answer questions about our tech stack and how we did specific things.