Pollen for LinkedIn

Maker

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Hi folks, I'm excited to share my first full solo project - Pollen for LinkedIn! If you use LinkedIn, you'll know the problem Pollen is solving - you have hundreds (or thousands) of connections, but you can't remember who the hell they are, or why you ever connected to them. Did you meet them at that conference two years ago? Didn't you say you'd definitely follow-up?? Pollen solves this problem, and does a whole lot more; it allows you to start organizing your professional network: - Tags - Create and add tags to profiles, use them across your network - Private notes - Add private notes for each connection - Reminders - Add reminders to individual profiles - Local storage - All your data stays private and secure on your device There's no data sharing with LinkedIn - all information is stored locally, and your notes and tags are completely private. There's not even a sign-up form - just add the extension to Chrome and get started. All feedback is very welcome - I'd love to continue improving Pollen and making it as useful as possible. Thanks for your support!

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6mo ago

Tony Tong

Muku.ai

@paul_a_smith Love what you’ve built with Pollen! Quick thought, could AI help suggest tags or reminders based on past interactions? That might make it even more intuitive!

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6mo ago

Dylan McKee

Fit Gurus

Really nice idea and lightweight execution and I love the privacy first focus with the local storage. Are there any plans to make the data a bit more queryable, so for example if I logged that I met someone at a certain event a while ago, I could chat to Pollen and tell it I’m going to said event again, and it could suggest everyone I should get in touch with?

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6mo ago

Paul Smith

Pollen for LinkedIn

Maker

@djmckee thanks for the support! Great idea. I'm keen to introduce semantic search to notes, which is obviously very doable with GAI now, but it's supper early; I want to make sure the notes (and tags) are initially useful before I double-down on their functionality.

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6mo ago

Dylan McKee

Fit Gurus

@paul_a_smith that makes sense! Yeah tagging could be a great stopgap, but would be a great testbed for a local-running LLM experiment eventually 😎

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6mo ago

Martyn Davies

Orbit

I love it. I'm at a conference RIGHT NOW, and I've used this for the past 2 days to ensure those new connections have useful context in future. I'd love be able to grab a list of people tagged with something specific, either on demand and downloadable or via an API call in future.

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6mo ago

Paul Smith

Pollen for LinkedIn

Maker

@martynd Hey Martyn! Thanks so much for your support! There's a basic first version of tagged lists already in there; try clicking on a tag you've added to a profile, and you should find everyone else tagged with it. This is obviously a bit janky, since there currently isn't another way to initiate a search - but that's this weekend's job ☺️

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6mo ago

Paul Smith

Pollen for LinkedIn

Maker

@martynd ok, got a visual fix for this that I'll push at the weekend; tl;dr tags associated with more than one profile will display a "group" icon. Lets see what you think!

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6mo ago

Pollen for LinkedIn

Tag, organize and add notes to LinkedIn profiles