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Ripple — A new professional network from the creators of Tinder
Ripple is professional networking, solved.
Swipe through potential connections to strengthen your network. No need to carry around (or forget) business cards; connect with people you meet using Nearby. Join groups and events to bolster your professional life, and stay on top of your game with the latest news, Tweets, and Medium articles from your
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Philip
Jobr already made this a few years ago and why ripple? why!? christ sake!.. 🙃
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What made them think "swipes" are good idea to professional networking? Swipes are literally hormonal decisions on Tinder.
This feels more like they started with the swiping tech and then worked backward to what it can be applied to. What's the problem being solved? LinkedIn uses circles of trust to build connections to persons outside immediate sphere. Ripple seems trying to build random 1:1 business connections, completely bypassing any trust or existing relationships. Is this how people really want to build business networks? I think they should look at how professionals spontaneously expand their network outside immediate network and then work backwards towards a product that can more easily facilitate it. Swiping to a match seems like a bad way to go about it. Airbnb might be a better model to look at, to understand how they build sufficient trust between 2 stranger parties to remove barriers to a "booking" between them.
Nothing about what I can see really screams "I MUST GET ON THIS!", except for the obvious FOMO, of course.
If you'd asked me a year ago, I'd have agreed that we needed a new professional social network, but I think LinkedIn has done a great job of making itself relevant again... and I think we're going to see that relevance grow as we move further into 2018
Reading the TC article, I can see there's been a lot of careful thought to solve some of the annoyances I might experience on other professional platforms, and to create an individual app identity separate to Tinder (though the fact that it's "by Tinder" features very heavily in its marketing)... but the focus seems to be on forming the connection, not how you engage after the connection (all it does is show me connections' medium/twitter feeds?), and I just can't see that compelling reason for me to want to use this... yet.
That said, they'll probably revolutionise the idea of "casual business networking" and become the new standard in professional networking moving forward
Look like Shapr which is doing the same thing and seems to have a good traction in France.
Btw you should seriously consider to change the name as its really confusing with the famous crypto
http://www.shapr.co/
@_jspete I'm french to and I use https://www.producthunt.com/post...
For now Ripple accept only US's mobile phone owners
Installed it to check it out, registration is (apparently) for US phone numbers only, uninstalled.
The idea seems great but it looks like the android app has been shipped in a rush because i couldn't even get past the signup process.
Pros:The idea seems great
Cons:Couldn't go through the onboarding as linking a google account didn't work and linking a twitter account crashed the app
So what’s the real added value compared to... Linkedin? I am not really shuffling my next Job opportunity... mmm
Let's face it, all we really have for professional networking is LinkedIn and it's not great. The world is in desperate need for a better alternative. Maybe this is it. Tinder isn't the first dating app to spin out into professional relationships, I've seen Bumble Bizz getting attention in women's networks here in London. It makes sense to take the learnings from facilitating romantic encounters into facilitating better business connections, and since everyone always has their phone in their pocket -- why not focus on an app. Would love to know what's been the feedback from the beta @garethtjohnson @ryanogle79 @paul_cafardo?
@abadesi you’re absolutely right about LinkedIn. It’s a clunky dinosaur that I despise using. Maybe it’s time to re-invent professional networking. Unfortunately, i don’t think the Tinder swipe card paradigm is the proper way to go about it. New year, new me, new project???
@garethtjohnson @ryanogle79 @paul_cafardo @abadesi I'm more than concerned with the underlying premise of conflating and linking appearance with professional networking anymore than it already is given it can already cause discriminatory practice and inculcate and nurture biases. Personally, I'm a little concerned at any efforts to infuse dating app outcomes into the workplace.
I read "From the creators of Tinder" first and then I immediately read "Nipple".
Now I can't even bring myself to download and try it..
Nah.
Are we in 2014? Tinder for professional networking has been done. A lot. And a few really well, with a lot of money raised, and NONE continue to exist today. But I’m keeping an open mind. Other than being made by Tinder folk, how is this any different? The app is less a standalone app and more of a feature for LinkedIn imho, so I don’t really see a competitive advantage as of yet. Again, keeping an open mind. Would love to hear from the founders.
The app was a mix of real bugs, and seemingly scammy thing, like "nearby" people that were a continent away.
Pros:Not sure, it didn't work
Cons:Didn't work
A 'professional' networking site with no web app? Lol, thanks, but no, thanks. Not to mention that I'm pretty pessimistic about any of their potential monetization models after Tinder.