Launched this week
Virre
A private relationship system for your career and network.
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A private relationship system for your career and network.
119 followers
Virre is a private relationship intelligence system that helps you turn existing connections into meaningful opportunities. It brings your network, conversations, goals, events, and follow-ups into one place, then recommends who matters, why they matter, and what to do next—without turning relationships into transactions.
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@gunjan_agg I like that you're focusing on relationships instead of just contacts. Those are two very different problems.
to answer the question: for me it's remembering the small stuff between the big moments, someone mentioned their kid was starting a new school or they were nervous about a specific presentation, and that's exactly the detail worth bringing up three months later, but it's also the first thing to get lost because it never felt "important" enough to write down at the time. every relationship tool lives or dies on whether capturing that is fast enough to actually happen in the moment. how are you getting people to log that kind of detail, quick text entry after a call, importing from calendar/email, voice notes? if logging takes more than a few seconds people just won't do it consistently, no matter how good the recommendations on the other end are.
The line I keep turning over is "without turning relationships into transactions", because the mechanism underneath it is ranking people by what they can do for you.
Recommending who matters and why they matter is a scoring function over your friends. That is not a criticism of building it. It is a question of whether the product can say plainly what it does without the user flinching.
Worth noting Pally launched on this same board today, and they rebuilt away from exactly this. Their stated reason was that nobody wants to manage relationships in another tool, they want the follow-ups to just happen. Two products, one day, opposite conclusions from the same problem. That is interesting rather than damning.
Real question, not a gotcha: what happens to someone who scores low? Do they get quietly deprioritised, or does the ranking stay behind the scenes and never get shown to me at all?
the framing around "who matters, why they matter, and what to do next" feels really thoughtfully sequenced. so many tools jump straight to action prompts and forget the context layer that actually makes you trust the suggestion.
this is a great product! and to answer your question, I'd say follow up. staying in touch when there's no ask.
Pythagora
Congrats on launching Virre! A private relationship system for your career and network. is an exciting direction, and I’m looking forward to seeing where it goes. 🚀