Meeting Machine — Intro calls with professionals you should meet

@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.

@moingshaikh many thanks! We’re excited to complement chat/forum community platforms , but really want folks to get on a real call together to meet and talk about topics important to them and/or solve stuff that can be done only via 1:1 vs. 1 to many platforms.

@matthew_apprendi great! Also I have a feedback about Profile setup as I just signed up for an account. IMO, Location should have more options for City. I am based out in Regina - Canada but couldn't find it in the list so I selected nearest location (Calgary). You can even have 'Other' or allow a custom-city name from users to manually put their city name. Same goes for Industry. I'll be happy to share more feedback with you or your team over personal communication as I explore it more.

@moingshaikh yes bring it on! thanks for the quick feedback on the limitations on locations we launched with.

@matthew_apprendi no worries. keep rocking 🤝

@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

@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!

@kristian_mariyanov many thanks Kristian. we're excited about the prospects of facilitating live 1:1s. this can happen in three different paths 1) If relevant users are live on the platform at any point and time and you are too, then our professional matching algo will do its work at will place you in 15min calls. 2) we send out a weekly speed networking invite at predetermined time. 3) if you link your calendar, we handle all the logistics. match you with relevant professional and find mutual availability. if you accept invite and your match does too(double opt in), there's mutual intro match and the the time is booked on your calendar.

@mark_amouzgar many thanks - the journey continues!

@ognjen_milev thx Ognjen! we're gotten feedback it's a little to literal! but have stuck with the name!

@imaravind Yup - will be a tough one to crack. our general idea is that we are building for the user 1st, make sure our "how" really gets folks to authentically connect via live 1:1 conversations. 2) our 2nd move to hopefully help with scale will be launching features specifically for community builder to harness our novel way to engage community to complement the more mainstream chats/forum types of products. will see!

@josip_lebesgue fingers cross we can make it a real deal thing! many thx for the support!

@mary_rumyantzeva many thanks! We are excited about how novelty and functionality meet to help coordinate live 1:1s. Our hope is folks really want to have a real convo or /percentage relative to the majority of online engagement of chat/forums. We believe getting on that first real call is a bit more intimate to build a rewarding relationship. Long term(amorphous goal)we see many expansions of curating 1:1s at scale. Getting folks to talk it out(synchronously) about key topics and societal problems to identify solutions.

@gtsiramua Many thanks - we're excited to learn about the best and most efficient way to get folks together for a live 1:1 intro call

@rameshkannan many thanks we are excited to continue to progress!

@rockyperezz yes, part of the theme were trying to complete. There's enough mutual interests to begin/have that first real authentic conversation. from there it's up to the matches to continue building upon that first real deal convo! lots of work to still to do, but exciting to get things moving along!

@julesfyt Excellent please let us know how can be helpful. our intro curation process kicks off on Mondays. If you link your calendar, we will find availability and also a professional match. if you do not link your calendar we hold speed networking events at predetermined times folks can join where we rotate every 15mins and score users based on their intro objectives/interests.

@sana_ismail Awesome - please ping us as you explore, be great to hear your feedback and hope we facilitate rewarding 1:1 intros for you!

@serge_neskoromny thx for support - we're excited about continuing to grow community & launch new features!