Hey, Adam!

We are now pretty occupied in Startupbootcamp, don't even have time on any community updates)

In terms of development, we are working on a new version of MVP, which will have more widgets, a giant fully-functional ICO list and an expert widget. We should be able to finish it in a couple of weeks.

As for the business side, we are working with partners of Startupbootcamp to revise our vision and establish connections: new experts for the platform, partnerships with blockchain startups and even banks (who honestly can't wait to get into the ICO market). We are also working with the Dutch regulator AFM, to smooth out the legal aspects of our future ICO.

In the meantime we are running our problem survey, to indicate the issues of ICO investors which we should concentrate on solving. If you are an ICO investor, we would be really grateful if you filled in our form and shared it with your friends:
https://goo.gl/forms/Wg4nCoW2r6ROMaY82

Thank you for staying with us and stay tuned: a lot of cool stuff ahead!

Thank you! Our target is to get the community working together making the ICO market more objective and transparent.

Actually, the first concept of our project were to detect scam among ICOs using a neural network. We have made a pivot after talking to the investors, because they want not to only see the final decision, but to see the data it was inferred from and make the decision themselves.

Although, if the community wants it, the Authors can make a widget with scam ICOs.

The problem with these free sources of information, is that to get the full picture the user has to find and review all of them - which takes great amounts of time. Our advantage is that there are a lot of different points of view in one place, so the analysis that the user gets is objective and can be processed much faster. And sources like TokenMarket can increase their outreach by creating a widget for our platform.

It can be indeed very useful - such a widget may be actually developed by the core team itself, but even if we don't get to that, third-party developers can always fill the gap.

Yes, exactly - we need a lot of funds to build an engaged community (marketing, subsidies for new Experts, etc. - see out WP for more detail), without which such analytics marketplace cannot exist.

The key idea is that they have one analyst or team of analysts, and we have collaboration of experts all over the world, which gives a more objective and complete picture. We think that banks and investment companies can benefit from participating in this collaboration as well.

The key difference from us is that they do not provide a marketplace, but they can bring their analytical tools to our platform to increase coverage!

We believe that they are not exactly our competitors, because they do not provide the marketplace. We want to create, first and foremost, a marketplace, where all such projects can post their analysis and bring it to the people.

If the community Authors want to have the same widgets on the platform, they can develop those widgets. More than that, ICO Stats themselves can deploy their widgets on our platform.

We think that emergence of such groups is an excellent sign - these are the Experts we are creating our platform for. Through collaboration of such groups the most objective and complete picture of the market will be created.

Anybody can implement a widget with same project cards and categories - so it's not really the question of whether we will do, but rather the question of whether the community will.

TokenLab's premise is entirely different - it is a platform for token issuance and not for analytics.

While there are a lot of similarities, there are some key differencies. Cindicator is more trading-oriented, and their forecasters only predict some binary or numeric targets; while our platform is investment-oriented and the Experts give a more detailed overview on each project. Cindicator does not really provide anything in terms of visualization, while Dolphin has all kinds of analytical tools. Cindicator is very automated, while Dolphin will require some curation from the community itself.

All in all, the two approaches can co-exist easily, and Cindicator predictions would actually make a good Dolphin widget.

The answer is simple - whatever the community wants. Through custom widgets the Authors can implement any rating system they wish, and if the Experts choose to analyze project in this system, then it is good to go!

Although we aim more at ICO investment than at trading, we are open to cooperation - only through cooperation we can create the economy of the future  

Well, the Expert can rate an ICO negatively - it is not really logical to ask them to invest then, is it? We do not make our experts invest into anything (it is their own business whether they do that or not), because otherwise they wouldn't be really objective or impartial.

It wouldn't really harm the project - in fact, it is a mutually beneficial synergy: ICORating increases their coverage, while we attract ICORating's audience to try our widgets.

Yes, you can! The Expert's history is saved and can be accessed at any time.

We do not consider such platforms as direct competitors - in fact, we can easily cooperate, as they can create their signature widget with their content to spread their coverage to Dolphin's audience.