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🌴🍹 Chill networking for ranting hackers

Because they say that complaining about the same things connects people.

This is the headline of a new concept that I'm currently experimenting with for Frenl.
Could you have a look and tell me what you think?

https://www.frenl.com

Thank you! :)

on March 7, 2020
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    Looks interesting. So you'll match two people on a regular basis based on interest?

    I would love to try but two things that stop me signing up:

    1. How do I know whether your users are active?
    2. Any idea about a successful match?
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    I can definitely relate to the "Actively looking for business partners doesn't work" statement. Once the community gets built, I can see it being very valuable in developing connections.

    Few thoughts / questions:

    1. Do you think it may be better to target one of the three communities to streamline user acquisition?
    2. If user acquisition is a challenge, I wonder if having the site focus more on discussion topics may provide more inherent value (i.e. why should I use this site) to start building the network?
    3. The page I was brought to from the email verification link didn't redirect anywhere (should probably go to login?)

    Like the concept and can definitely see where it can go!

    Cheers,

    Richard

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      Thank you Richard!

      1. I honestly don't think so because I don't think that they're really three different communities. My feeling is that the "hacker" community is a mix of people having different backgrounds (more software, more business, more design...) but sharing an interest: building things. Indie Hacker is really about that too I think :)

      2. Interesting. Do you have an idea of how you would like it to look like?
        Overall, specifically for Frenl, I may be wrong but I never had the feeling that the value wasn't clear. Everyone knows that it's good to network and everyone likes the idea.
        Right now, my challenge is more at the execution level. To be very clear: people are not really talking to each other. My app is currently not very good at creating interactions.
        That's why I'm experimenting with three new ideas/features:

      • Adding the "hot takes" as a core of user profiles to give them a more clickbaity flavor (they tend to be a bit bland right now).
      • Adding self-interviews to user profiles to create empathy and spark more interest.
      • Matching people by location: will add more possibilities to meet people in real life.
        The one that I'm the least convinced about is actually the "hot takes" because I'm not sure that people will open up easily. We'll see hehe.
      1. Yep thank you, there was a bug. If you reclick on the verification email it should work now!