Meeting Machine

@kcarth It came down to wanting to have real conversations with folks I did not have a chance to meet. I was a part of multiple communities and it was never possible or easy to have that first live 1:1 conversation. Whether it was folks I did not meet at a live event or part of some chat or forum community, I knew there were great folks to connect with! So as you know, we built a platform that automates professional matching making & the scheduling to get folks to have that 1st real conversation!

@kcarth @matthew_apprendi Congrats on the launch! sounds great

@kcarth @nastassia_k thx for stopping by! we're looking forward to incrementally gaining everyday, both on product and growth.

@clint_eastyood Thx Clint! look forward to learning more on your launch too. we already had a small snag, the launch on product hunt triggered 2.5 hours late! It was user error... but onwards!

@elena_gaidarji thanks for the love, Elena! The best way to leverage the platform and make it relevant for the individual is to set the filters for connections based on introductions that would be most relevant to you. They can be set to meet only individuals within your focused area of expertise. Also, each meeting invite has a link to the potential introductions, LinkedIn profile. Both people on the invite must except the meeting for it to be booked on the calendar. Another great way to leverage the platform is to use a group link you create within a trusted, private, existing community of people you’rea part of to curate introductions within that group.

@elena_gaidarji By Design, it was one of the fundamental core questions we wanted to answer. 1) privacy 1st, we never disclose your email address to the other matches (just your linkedin profile) we leave it to the matches to share if want to continue the conversation post our match 2) one of our core 1:1 matching facilitation is via "double opt in intro." both users have to say yes. 3) Professional matching algo: we have a weighted algo that takes into a number factors including the intro group you join (eg. product hunt community) from their we look at industry/geo and your specific intro intents to score across our users. Hope helpful! thanks for feedback

@kcarth Thank you, Kevin, for such a detailed answer! I will definetely use your tips ;)

@matthew_apprendi Thank you, Matt! :)

@elena_gaidarji anytime!

@kcarth @dzaitzow Yes, thats a core theme/thesis. We believe chat based/forum & 1 to many platforms are diffused. Still all good, but there's a community engagement gap, and should be a scalable authentic way to triangulate relevant 1:1 professional intro calls for communities to have that 1st real interactions. we're getting ready for our self-serve launch soon on that front.

@kcarth @matthew_apprendi Very cool - This is really interesting for me as we'll have a neat GTM community component of our SaaS that will help people do just this - test if there is a community vs taking a ton of time to develop and build on a complex platform. Keep me posted on the journey and happy to help in any way I can!

@dzaitzow will do! We’re launching a freemium version of the community building features too. We’re trying to move fast and hoping to finalize that functionality for launch in a couple weeks:)

@neha_8 awesome - great! welcome on feedback as we hone features and continue to grab more signups to facilitate 1:1s

@umair_arain thx Umair! I saw your note, thx for the feedback.

@kate_ramakaieva thanks for thoughtful support. our 1st stage is getting the workflows right to power authentic 1:1 live conversations for professionals to meet. this includes a match making algo, handling the scheduling logistics and hosting that actual 1:1 over a ~15min call -> all mutual and banning spam. 2) our next stage (hint on our next launch) is to provide community builders a self service interface to introduce their network at scale via 1:1 live conversation. We believe in the power of 1:1 to authentically meet new folks and the ability to solve complex societal problems at scale! look forward to your feedback on our product to make it a reality!