Comment by erikgaas
12 days ago
One thing I loved about the first solveit course was how create the community is. It goes back to fast.ai too, but everyone is super kind, smart, and has diverse backgrounds.
We've captured a slice of that on our main site. Testimonials: https://solve.it.com/testimonials Some blog posts: https://solve.it.com/#showcases on the main page
And on of the students even made a project dashboard page showcasing all the things everyone has built! https://solveit-project-showcase.pla.sh/
He even blogged about it : ) https://himalayanhacker.substack.com/p/how-i-built-solve-it-...
That testimonial page looks super fake. Why does the same Mathew Miller have 7 testimonials? Similarly, Pol Alvarez Vecino, Pierre Porcher and Duane Milne all have 6 testimonials. And almost all other users also have multiple testimonials. This can't be organic.
At the end of the last course we put out a survey and asked for feedback. There were multiple questions in the feedback form. That's why there are multiple quotes from each person.
If you google any of those names you'll see they are absolutely real people. E.g. here's Pol's Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ayz0DtUAAAAJ&hl=en . (And I see he's posted here on this HN chat too in fact.) Here's Mathew Miller on Twitter: https://x.com/matdmiller?lang=en .