Ripple
A new professional network from the creators of Tinder
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Gareth Johnson

Ripple - A new professional network from the creators of Tinder

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Ripple is professional networking, solved.

Swipe through potential connections to strengthen your network. No need to carry around (or forget) business cards; connect with people you meet using Nearby. Join groups and events to bolster your professional life, and stay on top of your game with the latest news, Tweets, and Medium articles from your

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Frank Madre
Do we really need another Ripple? First the cryptocurrency, then the pea-milk (it's weirdly delicious) and now this. Love the idea, but think you should pick a new name
Ross Currie
@franksmadre "Awww, what am I going to call my Internet company? All the good names are taken!"
Comic-CONnor
@franksmadre Have you tried chocolate ripple? Weirdly delicious.
Johnny Hill
Product Pearson
Me to wife: "Don't worry babez, it's just a professional networking app so I can meet like minded business people" Wife to me: "Are women on the app?" Me to Wife: "Yeh but they are only successful, rich, powerful business women babez" Wife to me: "Uninstall that shit right now"
Elizabeth Hannan
@productpearson Seriously, that is the exact banter my fiance gives me everytime some new guy friends me on LI or AL. :-)
Edward Vasquez
i think this is a wrong name :S.. good idea bad name..
Bent Stamnes
Installed it to check it out, registration is (apparently) for US phone numbers only, uninstalled.
Matteo Crippa
@gloom303 same over there, tried but no way to register outside US
Bent Stamnes
@ghego20 I have no problem with US-only services/launches, but that should be clearly communicated.
Gareth Johnson
Maker
@gloom303 Hey Bent! Sorry for the lack of clarity. This has been available on Android, and we're releasing an update for iOS soon that should allow you to select your own country code.
pete
Look like Shapr which is doing the same thing and seems to have a good traction in France. Btw you should seriously consider to change the name as its really confusing with the famous crypto http://www.shapr.co/
Alban JAMESSE
@_jspete I'm french to and I use https://www.producthunt.com/post... For now Ripple accept only US's mobile phone owners
Abadesi
Let's face it, all we really have for professional networking is LinkedIn and it's not great. The world is in desperate need for a better alternative. Maybe this is it. Tinder isn't the first dating app to spin out into professional relationships, I've seen Bumble Bizz getting attention in women's networks here in London. It makes sense to take the learnings from facilitating romantic encounters into facilitating better business connections, and since everyone always has their phone in their pocket -- why not focus on an app. Would love to know what's been the feedback from the beta @garethtjohnson @ryanogle79 @paul_cafardo?
Steven Rueter
@abadesi you’re absolutely right about LinkedIn. It’s a clunky dinosaur that I despise using. Maybe it’s time to re-invent professional networking. Unfortunately, i don’t think the Tinder swipe card paradigm is the proper way to go about it. New year, new me, new project???
Sunny Singh
@garethtjohnson @ryanogle79 @paul_cafardo @abadesi I'm more than concerned with the underlying premise of conflating and linking appearance with professional networking anymore than it already is given it can already cause discriminatory practice and inculcate and nurture biases. Personally, I'm a little concerned at any efforts to infuse dating app outcomes into the workplace.
Desmond Popkowski
A 'professional' networking site with no web app? Lol, thanks, but no, thanks. Not to mention that I'm pretty pessimistic about any of their potential monetization models after Tinder.
Casey Allen

Was frustrated with the onboarding and lack of immediate value.

Pros:

Familiar design

Cons:

onboarding was frustrating, could have primed account creation more reducing the number of steps a user needs to take.

Elizabeth Hannan

It is very obvious there was no H.E.O. research done before launching to create a good flow to the customer journey. It is choppy, missing chunks and very obviously designed with the developers ego first rather than defining the buyer persona for the actual user of the app.

The reviews on the App store seem to nail it.

Definitely, not a Tinder quality app. Maybe Tinder ver .0005.

Pros:

Clever idea! LI needs a competitor

Cons:

Not up to par. Seems unfinished full of bugs

Jani pasha
what is LI ? is it a product ?
Ross Currie
Nothing about what I can see really screams "I MUST GET ON THIS!", except for the obvious FOMO, of course. If you'd asked me a year ago, I'd have agreed that we needed a new professional social network, but I think LinkedIn has done a great job of making itself relevant again... and I think we're going to see that relevance grow as we move further into 2018 Reading the TC article, I can see there's been a lot of careful thought to solve some of the annoyances I might experience on other professional platforms, and to create an individual app identity separate to Tinder (though the fact that it's "by Tinder" features very heavily in its marketing)... but the focus seems to be on forming the connection, not how you engage after the connection (all it does is show me connections' medium/twitter feeds?), and I just can't see that compelling reason for me to want to use this... yet. That said, they'll probably revolutionise the idea of "casual business networking" and become the new standard in professional networking moving forward
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