Intch - Professional networking app

Hi fellow Producthunters, My name is Yakov Filippenko and we founded Intch to really take networking into a new realm (to finally make online networking mutually beneficial). We all know professional networking is a key aspect of business development. It can make the world of a difference to a career and to a business. All highly successful people point to their professional networking at one point. Networking to me is more than just meeting people. I build real, strong networking ties through mutual help, collaboration, investing time and energy into relationships that are mutually beneficial. That’s why we put together this synergistic team to develop a modern professional networking tool based on mutual help and put social capital alive. We’re already thousands of professionals on Intch reaping the fruits of our networking labor on Intch. It’s fascinating to see how everyone builds their social capital assisting each other, developing stronger ties to one another, and getting professional guidance on their own requests. All of you into networking, experienced or novice, I’d love to get your feedback. I really want to do my part in making professional networking viable and fruitful with modern technologies. And I am sure Intch is a great step towards that. Let me know what you think!

Nice app with great potential :)

Great team! I believe that guys doing great app!

Looks promising! I'm a novice in networking, so it's hard to understand where to start from. But your concept of requests offers a way, I'm def trying it out

Hey! Thanks for the app, been using it for a while. Look promising!

Hi! Intch is a very interesting tool to find the contacts you need. For me it’s the unique solution - it’s using my phone contacts to help me find friends & friends of friends for my specific request (HR request, consultation request, etc). Also it’s always fun to help others there.

It is always interesting to see the birth of the communities. Hope this will be the big one!

Really good niche app 🤙 Very easy to start using and getting value! Congrats, Yakov 👏 Have been watching Intch's journey right from an early MVP version start.

Cool idea! What's the differentiation from LinkedIn?

Nice App 🚀🚀🚀

Looks really nice and full of potential! I do a lot of networking myself and I'm thrilled to see this one! Mutual help and collaborating is really how you build strong professional relationships. It's great to have an app for that. Hope to see it grow in the IT sector, and also in the Education and sector.

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Looking great. Don’t miss a chance to make some close and useful connections on the launch stage, while there’s quite a narrow community of involved early adopters from tech & startups

wow, guys, good luck to you!

I like that the app replicates what we are already doing on social media and makes it more efficient

One of the best product I have ever seen of my choice.

Best app, been looking for something like this

I love this new angle to collaboration you guys have brought up. It’s great to see that I can talk with fellow professionals and learn and preach simultaneously. The interface looks great and super easy to use as well. Can’t wait to try this out!

This is legitimately so helpful, it seems like LinkedIn but with a fun and more utilitarian twist. The idea really seems to bring the ‘community’ back to the business world. I hope I can try this out very, very soon.

I worked at Monster and CareerBuilder (product), and networking app/features were always a hot topic. Couple of initial thoughts: the screens and design feel like a well-built and mature app. Maybe not request the phone number right away. We here (on this thread/community) might be comfortable with it because we know what's going on, but typical user would rather first start with a non-phone requested login, then later add phone as an added measure of security once they trust the app more. Might be a friction point for some % of users (not sure if you've tested?). I got as far as building a profile and will continue again tomorrow. Maybe worth asking: have you considered allowing members to import their profile from somewhere (e.g., LinkedIn or similar)? Might be yet another removal of barrier to entry. At any rate, thanks, exciting opportunity here to offer something useful to the crowd that's looking to connect career-wise!