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Beelink
Meet a professional on video, right now
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Meet a professional on video, right now
31 followers
Most professional networking is slow. You send a connection request, wait, maybe get a reply, schedule a call, wait again. Beelink skips all of that. You log in with LinkedIn, click a button, and you're in a live video call with another professional in seconds. No profile browsing, no cold messages, no scheduling. The matching is based on what you're actually looking for: finding a co-founder, talking to investors, hiring a freelancer, or just meeting people in your industry.
Buska
The cold start problem is the thing I'd want to understand better. "You just need another person online at the same time" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
What's your simultaneous user count at peak right now? Because instant connection is a great experience when it works and a brutal one when someone clicks and waits 90 seconds with no match.
The LinkedIn filter is genuinely smart for quality. Curious how you're thinking about the randomness problem though. What stops the third or fourth mismatched call from feeling like Chatroulette for professionals?
Buska
@sergio_jivan That's exactly the right question. The "Chatroulette for professionals" risk is real and we take it seriously. Three things keep it from going there: LinkedIn auth (real identity, real professional context), the call is short by design (15 min max, no awkward lingering), and we match on professional signals not pure randomness. You're not getting a stranger, you're getting someone whose background actually crosses yours in some way. As for simultaneous users - still early, we're building the waitlist now, which is why we're here on PH. The cold start is the honest challenge, not going to pretend otherwise.
Yeah, as far as I got it - networking apps always die in the same spot. Send a request → wait days → finally line up a call, but by then you've both forgotten why you even reached out 😅. Cutting out all that dead air is honestly the dream.
Quick q though — when it connects you with someone, do you get any hint about why you two got matched?
Buska
@oleg_tsizdyn Yes, you get context on why you were matched. The matching runs on a mix of signals pulled from your LinkedIn profile and what you're looking for, so when someone shows up it's not purely random. You can see the reason before you even start talking. The idea is that the first 5 seconds of a cold call shouldn't be spent figuring out if there's any reason to be there.
Mailwarm
How do you avoid the mismatch and spam problem, is there any screening or rating after calls?
Buska
@naimz Three layers: LinkedIn auth to get in (no fake profiles, no anon accounts), matching on professional signals so you're not getting purely random connections, and yes - rating after each call. You can flag a bad match, rate the quality of the connection, and that feeds back into how we match you next time. Repeat bad actors get flagged and removed. The goal is that every call feels like it was worth 15 minutes of your day, even if nothing comes of it. We'd rather have fewer calls with higher quality than volume for volume's sake.