First off, beautiful looking website. Nice job on the branding.
The question I find my self asking is "what type of person is using this?" "who do I want to connect with?" "why would I want to connect with them?"
You have a bunch of corporate logos, but I don't know what you are implying with them. That people who work there are using Overlap? Why are they using it?
I was happy to find "success stories" in your footer, but clicking on that lets me tell you about my success.
I need/want to hear from your users that they are having success. I want them to tell me why I need overlap.
The more I think about it, the more I am wondering why this is better than LinkedIn, where everyone already is. Sure, I get spam, but that's easy to filter, and I am there filtering it.
I feel like overlap is going to be giving me more spam, and now it's in my inbox, which is precious to me. Why is overlap going to earn a place in my inbox?
I've never understood the Bumble Bizz (which I think failed), but LinkedIn has been quite successful for me.
A matching system for an accelerator seems very different than a more generalized site, which it seems you've built here.
Let me be clear, I'm not saying what you've built isn't valuable, but distribution is the key to getting something off the ground, and a two-sided marketplace, which is what you have, needs a good distribution strategy.
Have you thought about focusing just on the accelerators, incubators to grow overlap, so that when people like me are hearing about it for the first time, I'm not wondering why I would use it, but rather, I know, person X,Y,Z met there, or it was successful in this way. Etc etc.
This feedback is incredible. I am trying to figure out how to niche down instead of being the everything-networking tool to everyone. I like your ideas a lot and have copied them into a doc to sit down and really think about as I identify the direction of the company. Appreciate the time you spent sharing your thoughts.
As an engineer and entrepreneur not residing in the US, the value for me here would be to get into the tech scene without having to be in SV meetups or other events, because it’s obviously very expensive and I’m very busy. The problem I see is there are many people that claim to actually be legit professionals or entrepreneurs but basically just want to spam, so being able to separate that is hard. Manual vetting is important. But my question is, what would such a match look like across countries?
The question I find my self asking is "what type of person is using this?" "who do I want to connect with?" "why would I want to connect with them?"
You have a bunch of corporate logos, but I don't know what you are implying with them. That people who work there are using Overlap? Why are they using it?
I was happy to find "success stories" in your footer, but clicking on that lets me tell you about my success.
I need/want to hear from your users that they are having success. I want them to tell me why I need overlap.
The more I think about it, the more I am wondering why this is better than LinkedIn, where everyone already is. Sure, I get spam, but that's easy to filter, and I am there filtering it.
I feel like overlap is going to be giving me more spam, and now it's in my inbox, which is precious to me. Why is overlap going to earn a place in my inbox?
I've never understood the Bumble Bizz (which I think failed), but LinkedIn has been quite successful for me.
A matching system for an accelerator seems very different than a more generalized site, which it seems you've built here.
Let me be clear, I'm not saying what you've built isn't valuable, but distribution is the key to getting something off the ground, and a two-sided marketplace, which is what you have, needs a good distribution strategy.
Have you thought about focusing just on the accelerators, incubators to grow overlap, so that when people like me are hearing about it for the first time, I'm not wondering why I would use it, but rather, I know, person X,Y,Z met there, or it was successful in this way. Etc etc.