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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
TBH, I'm always skeptical of services that try to replace the business card. The transaction of sharing a card is so engrained in our culture and behavior and while it's far from ideal, solutions I've seen provide incremental value, not enough to get people to switch. That said, I haven't played with Spincard yet! :)
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John Murch
@johnmurch · Developer/Marketer
Love the idea/approach, but still a chicken and egg. http://clinck.me/ is pretty slick as I can just open the app and hand the phone to let them type in their email. Business cards is hard to disrupt, but anyone who can get that momentum going (cough cough sxsw coming up) it's going to last. Oh and RIP #hashable as I thought that was going to be it and my pe… See more
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Anthony Montalbano
@italianst4 · *, AMBR Detroit
@rrhoover - Yes, the business card transaction hasn't really changed over the years. We've spent a lot of time analyzing this transaction and also all of the attempts to bring the transaction digital. And through it all we came up with 2 key elements that we think are critical; 6 character pin and full screen photo. The 6 character pin is something you ca… See more
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@italianst4 - congrats on the launch! Clearly you've thought through this thoroughly. Curious to see how you market the product. If you can share a preview, please do! :)
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Anthony Montalbano
@italianst4 · *, AMBR Detroit
@rrhoover - Thank you! As in our marketing strategy? One of our approaches are Spinparties. Any networking event can have the added element of a Spinparty.
We will have a small setup with a professional photographer who will take free head shots of attendees. The attendee will have a quality head shot for their Spincard (we've built an internal app to al… See more