This implies you need to find out who can help you :)
(Please don't start extending offers to YC people directly. They probably have their hands full advising already. And we want Rougefeta to be helpful, not harmful.)
Sometimes, the incentive cannot be monetary, because the recipient is not interested in money. What the recipient may be interested in is an indication whether it is worth investing in a reply.
We had changed "pays" to "helps" at an earlier stage.
This thing sounded like such a crazy idea that I was laughing half the time building it. At some point I had even made offered incentives automatically end with ", darling"
On what we are trying to accomplish: the "bloody brilliant" comment in the incentive link offers one explanation. Our explanation is simpler: we wanted to make some people answer our emails, and didn't know how.
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This implies you need to find out who can help you :)
(Please don't start extending offers to YC people directly. They probably have their hands full advising already. And we want Rougefeta to be helpful, not harmful.)