It looked like a great idea to bring people together to work on products they are passionate about. It used to be a platform where you can find a cofounder or an entire team for building your product. You could also find the next thing to work on if you had some free time. You would exchange your skills for their coins which represented the share of the profit. I remember working on a product there, fixing some bugs or adding new features - it was cool because everything was open source so you could check the code for anything and decide to work on it.

It looks like they shut down some time ago and I'm not aware of any good alternatives. I'm wondering what was the insurmountable problem they faced that caused them to shut down. Has anyone got any suggestions for alternatives?

For more info check out their Angel List page at https://angel.co/assembly.