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AI digital business card that remembers everyone you meet
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ConnectMachine 2.0 - AI digital business card that remembers everyone you meet

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Create unlimited business cards, scan any paper card, LinkedIn QR, or badge in seconds, and share via QR, Wallet, or AirDrop. Your private AI remembers who you met and why it mattered, then syncs everyone into your CRM. Encrypted, no public feed. New in v2.0: Team Plan with branded cards and admin controls, AI Note Taker for meeting transcripts and summaries, ShareBack for instant mutual exchange, follow-up reminders, and the full app in 5 languages. Much of it built from user requests.

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Hey Product Hunt 👋,


I am S.S. Rahman, co-founder of ConnectMachine. We're back: v2.0 is live today on iOS and Android.


What ConnectMachine is: A private AI agent for the people you meet. Scan a business card or a LinkedIn QR, add a quick note, and it remembers who you met, where, and what was said. Later, ask it in plain English ("who did I meet at Web Summit who works in fintech?") and it answers, by text or voice. In the background it keeps contacts organized and enriched. When the timing matters, it surfaces the right person and quietly handles the follow-up.

There's no feed and no noise. Nothing is public. It's a self-curated personal network you actually control.


A quick why: Since our first launch we've had thousands of users and hundreds of conversations, here on Product Hunt and elsewhere. One idea kept circling: "not just a card reader." Nobody wants another card scanner. What people want is for the handshake to lead somewhere. Instead, contacts end up scattered across apps and the context evaporates the minute a meeting ends. Social networking apps don't help. They reward broadcasting, not remembering. ConnectMachine v2.0 is built around fixing that.

What's new in v2.0:

  • Ground-up redesign: cleaner, faster, and your branding stays consistent across My CM Page, Card, and Wallet. Everything to manage your network in one place.

  • AI Note Taker: record a meeting, assign speakers, get a transcript and summary in one tap. Works in any language.

  • Smarter AI Concierge: handles multi-step prompts (ask for three things at once, it sorts them out) and works in your language. Private, trained on your network, visible only to you.

  • Smart Event Detection: automatically groups contacts around the events where you met them.

  • Team Plan: branded team cards, custom domain, and admin controls. Update bios, websites, and calendar links across your whole team from one place.

  • More ways to capture: LinkedIn QR, WhatsApp snap-to-contact, and searchable scanned cards. The original card image is preserved for every scan.

  • Cleaner contacts: notes at save time, one-tap duplicate merge, and incremental import that skips unchanged contacts.

  • ShareBack form: when you share your card, the other person can share theirs back instantly. Networking that's actually mutual.

  • Follow-up reminders: email and SMS nudges per contact. Never forget to circle back.

  • Full branding control: brand colors, fonts, logo, banner, custom avatar, drag-and-drop field reorder, and a branded QR code that replaces our logo with yours.

  • Multi-language: the full app in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Russian, with auto-detect on first launch.

  • Contacts Webhook: push contact events straight to Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, or any CRM via Zapier, Make, or n8n. No manual entry.

Worth noting: the preserved card image, the webhook, and the language support all began as user requests in our reviews. People asked, we shipped. Most of v2.0 was built that way.

Who it's for: Founders, operators, investors, consultants, and now teams.

Anywhere you do live networking: conferences, expos, client meetings, any room where you meet people faster than you can remember them.


No spreadsheets, no lost cards, no "who was that guy at booth 14?"

Try it: iOS:
Android:

ConnectMachine started as a digital card tool. You told us you wanted real memory behind every connection, so that's what we built. The review that stuck with me most said, simply, that we kept our promise. v2.0 is us keeping it again.

I'll be in the comments all day. If something annoys you, tell me that too. That kind of feedback moves the product more than compliments do.

Thanks,
S.S. Rahman

 Congrats on the launch of v2.0! 🚀

I really like the idea of turning networking from simply collecting contacts into actually remembering relationships. That's a much bigger problem than scanning business cards.

I'm curious, after talking to thousands of users, what piece of context do people forget most often after meeting someone? Is it where they met, what they discussed, a promised follow up, or something else entirely?

Wishing you an amazing launch! 🔥

Maker

 Thank you! The honest answer is: none of them alone. It's the links between them.

People keep fragments. A face but not the name. "Someone promised me an intro" but not who. The person, but not what you promised them, which is the expensive one. The context isn't gone, it's filed under the wrong key, so you can't retrieve it from the fragment you still remember.

That's why CM stores who, where, and what was said as one memory instead of three fields, and lets you ask from any direction: "who did I meet at Web Summit who works in fintech."

"remembers everyone you meet" that is the right hook, most people's CRM is a graveyard of contacts with zero context attached. I'm still curious about V2.. how does the app handle the gap between "met at an event" and "remembered something useful about them"? Like if I only have a name and company, is there a way for ConnectMachine to prompt me to add context before the memory is already cold? I think that window is probably where most of the context gets lost.

scanned a stack of old paper cards from a conference and it actually pulled out the right context notes for follow-ups, that part impressed me. love that nothing shows up in any public feed.

Maker

 Kamile, this is the exact story we hoped launch day would produce: a dead stack of conference cards turning back into follow-ups. And yes, the no-feed part is permanent, that's the whole point of the network being yours.

Congrats on the launch ! Great hunt!

Does the webhook support real-time updates when a contact or note is changed?

Maker

   Thanks Aleksandar! Yes, real time: webhooks fire on contact or note is updated. Push them straight into Salesforce, HubSpot, or Pipedrive, or any other CRM via Zapier, Make, or n8n. If you have a specific destination in mind, tell me and I'll confirm the payload covers what you need.

Congrats on v2.0. Something I noticed reading through: every privacy guarantee here protects the person holding the app. Nothing is public, visible only to you, a network you control. But the person whose card got scanned, and whose voice ended up in a transcript, doesn't have an account. Is there anything on their side of it, or does consent for the Note Taker rest entirely on the user remembering to ask the room?

Maker

 Peter, sharpest question on the thread, and one I can answer with a screenshot, because this screen sits in front of the Note Taker:


Two things happen there before recording can start. The user confirms everyone involved is aware and has given consent, and they commit to keeping the recording private, with no sharing or misuse of the audio or transcript. Decline is right there and ends the flow.

I'll be precise about what that is and isn't: it's a consent gate, not consent verification. No app can verify a room's agreement from inside one phone, so the design goal is to make asking the room impossible to forget rather than to pretend we can police it. On the scanned-card half of your question: a card is information someone handed over precisely so it would be kept, and it lands in one person's private vault, never pooled, published, or visible to anyone else.

 That distinction is the whole answer, and I appreciate you drawing it yourself rather than making me draw it. "A consent gate, not consent verification" is a more honest sentence than most privacy pages contain.

The half I keep thinking about is the vault. The gate protects the room in the moment. The vault is where exposure accumulates — months of transcripts and scanned cards behind whatever protects that one account. Everyone in those recordings consented to a conversation, not to being stored.

So: is the vault local or server-side, and if someone takes over the account, what do they walk away with?

Congrats on the launch.

Maker

Hi everyone Vinod here , Co-founder at ConnectMachine.
Rahman covered the big picture, so I want to zoom in on the part I'm most proud of: the memory layer.
The hardest problem in networking isn't collecting contacts it's remembering context. That's what our AI now solves:

  • AI NoteTaker records your meeting, separates speakers, and hands you a clean transcript + summary. What was said becomes part of the relationship, not something you scramble to recall a week later.

  • Agentic recall  ask "who did I meet at the fintech summit?" or "what did Sarah and I discuss last month?" in plain language, and the agent answers with real continuity.

  • A smarter Concierge that now handles multi-step prompts throw three tasks at it at once and it untangles them.

  • Smart Event Detection automatically clusters contacts around the events where you met them.

The goal: every person you meet ends up in your network with context  location, event, and notes not just a name and a title. Would genuinely love to hear how the NoteTaker performs in your real meetings.

How does the AI actually figure out who to remember and what mattered, does it run on-device only or hit your servers in any way?

Maker

 Good question Halil,

Who to remember and what mattered: mostly, you tell it. When you scan a card you add context as text or a voice note, and the AI reads either. Around that it picks up the card's own contents, your location, and any ongoing event it detects, which is how Smart Event Detection groups contacts by where you met them. The AI structures what you said in the moment, it doesn't invent what mattered.

On-device vs servers: honestly, both. Capture happens on your phone, but the AI work (transcription, enrichment, concierge answers) runs on our servers. What we commit to: encrypted in transit and at rest, your network visible only to you, no public feed, nothing shared with other users.

Maker

Hi Everyone! Neha here, Marketing Director at ConnectMachine.😊

My favorite part of v2.0 is how much better it feels and how well it represents your brand.

  • Ground-up redesign based on real user feedback. It's cleaner, faster, and more consistent across My CM, Card, and Wallet.🎨

  • Branded cards in minutes. Match your card to your brand with custom layouts, colors, and logos. Create multiple identities and share only what you choose.🃏

  • Real-time card updates. Change your details once, and your contacts are notified automatically. No more outdated numbers floating around.🔁

  • Multi-language support with automatic language detection, making the experience feel native wherever you are.🔠

  • Apple Wallet priority keeps your card ready for instant sharing whenever you need it. 🈸

For founders, consultants, and anyone whose personal brand is part of their business, your identity now stays sharp and consistent everywhere.🙌

I'd love to hear what you think about the new design and which feature stands out to you the most!❤️

Try it -
iOS:
Android:

The QR scanning was noticeably faster than other apps I have tried, and the fact that everything stays encrypted locally is a real plus. Wish the CRM sync took a beat less setup, but overall it feels thoughtfully built.

Maker

 Thank you Pınar! "Noticeably faster" on QR is the compliment we were chasing, and the privacy stance is permanent: encrypted, nothing public.

The CRM setup point is fair. Where did it drag most: getting the webhook in place, the Zapier/Make side, or field mapping? You flagged it, so we want to fix the right part.

congrats on the launch!

Maker

 Thank you Arseniy, appreciate you stopping by on a busy day! Good luck with superlog.

Hey! Great update. I was wondering, what data stays on my device, and what data is sent to your servers or shared with third parties?

Maker

 Hey Aleksei, fair question, and the map is short.

On your device: local cache, card images before upload, drafts, audio files.

On our servers: your contacts, notes, and transcripts live in your account, encrypted, because that's make concierge, and your CRM webhooks work. Server-side does not mean visible: there's no feed, no pooling with other users' networks, nothing public, and we don't sell your data.

Third parties, in narrow categories with narrow jobs: AI processing for transcription and the concierge, business-data sources for enrichment lookups, and standard app analytics/attribution. This matches our App Store privacy label, and none of them receive your network to keep or resell.

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