The Exchanges

Every argument clarity score on this site is built from rows on this page. Each question and answer was assessed with names hidden, the host's own answers included, on four things from 1 to 5: directness (does it answer the question asked), coherence (do the ideas follow), precision (concrete details and clear references), compression (says a lot per word). The weighted mix (30/30/25/15) is the exchange score. A person's published score averages their exchange scores on raw tape only, at least 8 of them, shrunk toward the cohort mean. Full method →

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Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Answered produced feed D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60

Q Guys, if you're sitting there watching this on YouTube going, amen, give Melissa some love here. Hit that like button. Come on below. Melissa, tell us about eWebinar. What's the product do?

A So it's, uh, as exactly as you say, it's, um, it saves people from doing the exact same webinar over and over again. So you can imagine demos, onboarding trainings, especially for SaaS companies. Um, you are probably constantly doing those things, maybe live on zoom or something else, or putting it on YouTube, which isn't as interactive. So this product was actually designed for bootstrappers because this was a problem that I personally live with. Spatio for five years and a product that I dreamt of having every single day. So you can imagine like how much more efficient you can be if someone else is running all of your demos, your onboarding and trainings, and you never have to do them live.

AI assessment note: “it saves people from doing the exact same webinar over and over again.”

Answered produced feed D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60

Q Um, and tell me why, what was the lesson? Can you tell me the lesson there? Why didn't it work? Was it your fault or their fault?

A I mean, I don't think it was anyone's fault, right? I think a lot of their shops starts with, Hey, I can do this. I can take the contract because it's a big contract. And then you also, and then you go into a product realizing if you don't have a person thinking about this product every single day, every living moment that's as invested as you, it's like having a restaurant without a chef. So I came in thinking, Hey, this, this dev shop can be my CTO and all my product things. And I can just go do, you know, what I do best, which is build the business, but it just doesn't work out like that. So I think they hugely underestimated what it took to build a product because they'd never built a product before. Um, and it turns out like my, my life partner, David, I did not know that he could cope as well. Is he your co-founder? Yeah. So he was actually fixing things for me because he was like criticizing this, criticizing that, and I'm like, why don't you go fix it? I can't fix it. And so he, he started coding for us and I was like, wait a second, you're actually like the one percent of the one percent coder. So I was like, why am I paying these people? Why don't I just end my relationship with them? And we work at an arrangement for you to be my co-founder. So he actually came in about a year into the business and we worked in an arrangement that works based on that. Um, and now he'…

AI assessment note: “I don't think it was anyone's fault, right? I think a lot of their shops”

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