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Intro — LinkedIn for Slack
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Do you store every team member's email address once your service has been added to a Slack team? If so, is there a process to remove emails from your systems?
That totally falls under the category of I-thought-about-doing-it-hopefully-I-didn't-because-they-did-it-much-better.
Intro might be the linkedin for the Conversation era
@mvaragnat you nailed it Matthieu - we are definitely hoping to be the professional network for the messaging / conversation era
Congrats on the PH launch! Have been following @mitali and @sseong for awhile now as they innovate on how we can all utilize our networks and soft connections better. Will be rooting for them as they grow. Already have Intro installed in the intermittent fasting slack I run called @wefastclub / www.wefa.st, where we have 300+ ppl talking about fasting and other biohacks. Seems like it'll be a useful tool to help people get to know each other better.
Congrats @Mittali! what was the hardest tradeoff/decision you had to make when building this product?
@eriktorenberg @mitali Thanks Erik for building this amazing community for products! Hardest thing for us has been knowing how much is enough? We originally started building a full intro making app, and had intended to connect the introduction making flow (tracking intro requests, single and double opt in) to this app before launching. But we decided not to wait and to get the product out there first, get people using it and come back to intro making workflow later.
auto complete in search would be welcome. coming soon? export contacts from linkedin also. no Api?
@ourielohayon thanks for the feedback. unfortunately /commands have no ability to do auto complete in slack. Slack is working on this. we do autocomplete inside of the filter drop downs on the web and will add to search box soon
@ourielohayon Ouriel, we have auto complete on web but is a bit slow :(. If you give it a few seconds, it will populate. We will improve it soon!
I'm on a community slack channel for San Diego startups. We actually created a #intro channel for people to introduce themselves in. I think /intro is a great idea.
@ryankuder thanks for your comment and for adding Intro. would love to hear your feedback as you use the app
@hnatkovskyy @sseong search will let you search just your Slack directory or their 1st degree connections as well. however each Slack's network is private to that Slack. next plans: building Intro Bot user to do some more cool stuff inside of Slack
Very clever. Slack has been missing a strong "profiles" component coupled with a "social" component, this satisfies that quite well.
@jedgar thanks John! its been great seeing how people are using /intro command in Slack to share their own profiles as a way of introducing themselves
Hello Product Hunters! 👋 We’re excited to share Intro with you.
Intro gives each Slack team its own private network.
With Intro you can:
- See a full member directory
- View detailed profiles of team members
- Merge your connections into a single team network
- Search for people by name, companies, locations, skills, and more
- Get intros to people through your Slack teammates
Our /intro Slack command lets you do many of these searches within Slack. Try searching for “/intro @your-username”
To learn more about our backstory read our launch announcement here: http://bit.ly/Intro-launch-medium
You can find us at: http://bit.ly/Intro-PH & http://bit.ly/IntroHQ-Twitter
We’re here all day to answer questions. Fire away!
Alan (@sseong) & Mitali (@mitali)
Hello Product Hunters - thanks for all the love you have shown us today 🙏
A quick update: since we launched on PH this morning we have already had 200 Slack teams sign up! And we're still going. Teams range from large companies, to startups, to great community Slacks in US, Europe and Asia. We're trying our best to keep up!
@bentossell @mitali Thanks Ben! We have a couple of easter eggs in /intro command too :)
So how is the profile data managed? is it actually pulling from linkedin? or how does a user maintain their info.
@jeffandersen once users join they can edit their profile. for people who are your connections but not Intro users yet, we will collect data from various public sources.
@mitali as in the bot will ask them for their information to create an intro profile? or you mean just the basic profile that Slackbot walks you through filling out?
@jeffandersen Currently, you can only edit your profile on our website after logging in. We do not interact with Slackbot much yet but that is a great idea. A lot more to come!
Be careful with this product.
They email every single user of your channel upon addition of the integration.
While Slack warns of this during authorization, it only takes one user to provide them with your entire user base's profile info.
@jeffandersen that is absolutely not the case Jeff. we do not notify your team at all! we give the option to the installing user to notify your team. which some choose to do. but many don't.
@mitali This is simply not acceptable to allow any user to give up the contact information of all users in the slack group.
Inviting users directly? sure. Automatically spamming the entire membership? absolutely not.
@mitali There is also no unsubscribe link on the email being sent. This is also unacceptable.
@jeffandersen “LinkedIn for Slack” is a great description. They even kept the dark patterns and annoying notifications of LinkedIn :D
@mitali As a member of the Slack group that @jeffandersen is speaking about, I find it incredibly annoying to be spammed by your product.
Great idea who's time has come--unfortunately we've seen LinkedIn lose its value from what it once was with the crazy recommendations to the increased amount of non professional content being posted. Your tool allow this to happen cutting thru all the noise and chatter of its big brother
@workstationw thanks Bill! we couldn't agree more about the noise level on LI.
#PHReview: Amazing on-boarding! I just installed Intro into one of my slack communities and will report back with more feedback, but so far, Intro, is a tool that is desperately needed within slack.
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