Hey everyone!
This is a tiny project I put together over the weekend. Serendipity sends you exactly one email every month, introducing you to another awesome person, randomly selected.
I love monthly products, because it's something nice to look forward to, and the idea of a surprise is always nice. I think it'd be fun to see what comes out of it in a few months, and it's pretty exciting to think that anything could, given the serendipity! 😄
@sharefloapp@manasvinik The easy part is to ensure that there are no fake accounts, and that everyone who signs up is "real". The difficult part is to have any set criteria. So it might get a bit subjective, and I'm not sure there's any way to keep that out, but I really want to make sure that everybody adds value -- ensuring that is what will make the random matches work. Thoughts on this welcome. :)
@manasvinik great idea! Curious what gift I will get in my email box. Serendipity at scale! Love it! Can you please share the 'results' here on this page? Like successful matches and stuff. (curious because I'm building something similar hihi)
@milann@manasvinik Milan, thank you! :) Absolutely, I'm sure there will be amazing stories and I'm just waiting to post them :) I just downloaded Wildcard -- the design is lovely.
Congrats @Manasvinik! Love when people are thinking about this space. We've been working on this problem for the past 6 months or so. (https://www.producthunt.com/tech...) Happy to share insights and would love to grab coffee to chat more if you're interested.
Some interesting things we've found:
- The hardest part is getting people to a real life meeting. We've had to develop lots of followup logic to get this to happen.
- Once people go on their first meeting, they continue to go. We're seeing 90+% second meetings and 80+% 30 day retention.
- Locations matter alot. If someone can't get there in 5-10min they probably won't go. Also there's a big difference between times (9am, 10am, 2pm, etc)
- We found that match quality was also really important. Once matched, if the person didn't see much value in meeting the person, no real life interaction (or any interaction) happens. Usually a "soft reject" happens by the person not interested just rescheduling indefinitely.
@zealoustiger Brian, Weave looks cool! Thanks for those insights, they're very interesting. Does Weave concentrate on location based meet ups? I'd love to talk more. :)
Hey, really nice idea! What is the screening process like? Do you have any sort of email protection, like are the email address hidden through Serendipity, or are they just sent directly to each recipient?
@ybeloc Thanks Coleby!
The screening process ensures a certain quality and also to make sure there are no fake/anonymous sign ups. Emails are sent directly to both the people getting introduced, for two reasons -- I'd like Serendipity to just be a way people meet, I don't want to keep anyone tied down to a platform and try to "own" the relationship by masking email addresses, if that makes sense. So when the intro is over, Serendipity's role there is over (until next month and a new intro). And second, right now Serendipity is just a minimal email first MVP. 😄
Is email protection something there's a lot of concern about? It's so cool to be able to get feedback and understand what people are thinking -- thanks so much for the question! 😄
@manasvinik No worries!
I'm not sure to be honest, I mean, I guess I might be a little worried, but then again my email is only going to 1 person a month and you do have a screening process which makes me feel somewhat more comfortable. Then again, there is always someone who spoils the fun for everyone! Maybe it is something you could ask users or potential users about? possibly a premium feature ;)
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