Mentoring and Meeting

Our Mentor shares some thoughts, while two of the founding members finally met.

Titash:
The most exciting part of a product startup is to be able to review and try out the product in early stages and give feedback to make it better. 
 
 I am getting the chance to see this amazing young company / product take shape, and I consider myself very lucky. 
 Last week, I also got to showcase my Skilla page and badge to friends, and hear their thoughts and feedback. 
 
 The future for product designers lies in understanding conversation design. 
 
 Bot conversation design — how the bot talks to other is fun — and helping the skilla team in that area is a very pleasant / earning experience for me.

Ben:
Last week was a historical event. After 3 months of distance relationship and digital hang outs only, I finally met Matteo flesh and bone in Berlin.

It was an intense time of brainstorming, brain-merging and showing him around.
Not much sleep, lots of walks, talks and notes.
We mainly worked on the whole Skilla concept. So, mainly secret plans…

Just a foretaste of our Italo-CEO moving in here though.

Geetanjali:
I’ve spent the week writing for Skilla — tweaking the bot conversation and writing content for the website. It’s been quite an interesting experience — first with the rules and constraints for content of messenger bots and then getting the tone right.

Skilla is a cool young chap, so obviously talks quite differently from me (a French teacher in the first half of the day and not THAT young any more!). It was tough at first getting a handle on what I call “Skilla Talk” but now I find myself talking like him all the time with my mates friends! ;-)

Matteo:
This has been one crucial week for me and for the future of Skilla. I had the chance to be in Berlin for few days where two beautiful things happened: first, I realized that being based out of Berlin and Bangalore will give us a global perspective on people’s behaviour and networking patterns, helping us to embrace diversity and to build our platform being open to the every kind of DOing, from startup and tech to art and culture.

Second and more important after months of remote working I finally met in person Ben, we had a great time brainstorming and chit-chatting for hours and hours about our future projects for Skilla and on how cool is to cooperate and collaborate together for a common purpose.

I guess we are our own first users :)