SuperMeet - Your 18 people worth meeting at any conference
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At a big conference you usually meet whoever you happen to bump into, and most meeting requests never get a reply. Supermeet replaces that with a short list chosen on purpose, plus the follow-up nobody else bothers to send.
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Hey Product Hunt, I'm Raj, I'm 17, and I built Supermeet on my own.
I haven't been to many big conferences. I got here by reading about them: post-event threads, attendee reviews, write-ups from people who'd spent a few thousand on the ticket, flight, and hotel. They all said much the same thing. People come home having had a handful of real conversations, often with colleagues they arrived with.
The attendee list, which is the most useful thing the event gives you, goes unread because it's a wall of four thousand names.
What surprised me was who the existing tools are built for. Almost every networking product in this space is sold to the organiser. If your conference didn't buy one, you're on your own with a PDF. Nobody was building for the person actually attending.
So the idea is narrow: before the event, read the list, work out the eighteen or so people worth your time, explain in one line why each one matters, then send the intro and the follow-up nobody else sends.
What's live today is the first piece. Pick the conference you're going to and see who else on the waitlist is going. If you both opt in, you can be introduced. Nobody's email is ever shown. The shortlist and the intros come next.
I'd really like to hear from anyone who goes to conferences for work. How do you decide who to meet now? And if you think I've got the problem wrong, tell me. That's the most useful thing you could say.