Weave

@zealoustiger - Have you found any surprising or interesting behavior emerging from your initial user base?

@zealoustiger - #1 is interesting b/c the purpose of the app is to connect with new people primarily. I'm always interested in hearing how people use products in unexpected ways. :) WRT to MVP's, what was yours?

What you see now was it. We developed it in 3 weeks + 1 week Apple approval process. We painstakingly cut all of the fat - you'll see that there's no mutual connections, we didn't pull LinkedIn contact to eliminate your friends, etc. Maybe I'm just not clever enough, but I couldn't think of any way to not build anything to test behavior that required a geolocation behavior like Weave's. I ended up just pitching and showing mockups to friends during the 3 weeks to get initial feedback. Other than that, it was literally coding 24/7.

@zealoustiger - observing user behavior is no doubt the best signal (although costly to get there). How are you planning to monetize?

Been using Weave for a few days - been very effective so far. I actually think it out-Tinders Tinder. The reason is that in a professional setting you really do care about mutual interests (industry/area of expertise), and the LinkedIn graph is very accurate for that (work experience / projects). On the other hand, Tinder is for social interactions, and people will just find thing to talk about. Also, the Facebook interest graph isn't the most accurate. Same goes with mutual friends. Mutual connections in business (think passive intros) Cary more weight than Facebook friends. Big fan of Weave... Great unofficial interview @rrhoover & @zealoustiger

Niv, thanks for the kind words. I'm glad it's been working for you. The professional angle definitely helps make it more... professional. :)

Great looking product, @zealoustiger! Excited to give it a shot tomorrow. Finally, the married guys can Tinder ;)