Cohort – A New Professional Social Graph • Hacker News Board

keeptrying wrote: post #3

They don't have 100M users. Just 100M names from scraping Quora, Linkedin etc. They probably have less than 1000 users I'm guessing.

Good guess - less than 1k MAUs: https://www.similarweb.com/website/cohort.is

That's more than just a little shady.

Re: Cohort – A New Professional Social Graph

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Post by eoghan » Sat, Nov 19, 2016, 8:37 PM UTC

Excited about what they're working on. A digital network that more closely represented actual relationships could be a valuable and interesting tool.

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Post by holman » Sat, Nov 19, 2016, 8:47 PM UTC

allerhellsten wrote: post #4

keeptrying wrote: post #3

They don't have 100M users. Just 100M names from scraping Quora, Linkedin etc. They probably have less than 1000 users I'm guessing.

Good guess - less than 1k MAUs: https://www.similarweb.com/website/cohort.is That's more than just a little shady.

They're not even out of beta, yet; give 'em a bit of time first. :)

For what it's worth, I've been on the beta for a few months now, and have known Eamon for years. They're very good people, and I'm really stoked to see this out in the wild.

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Post by allerhellsten » Sat, Nov 19, 2016, 8:52 PM UTC

holman wrote: post #6

allerhellsten wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good guess - less than 1k MAUs: https://www.similarweb.com/website/cohort.is That's more than just a little shady.

They're not even out of beta, yet; give 'em a bit of time first. :) For what it's worth, I've been on the beta for a few months now, and have known Eamon for years. They're very good people, and I'm really stoked to see this out in the wild.

Don't know any of them, but my BS detector went off pretty hard - more advisors than team, completely unclear value proposition and a brand strategy that will keep them out of any first page SERPs for some tome coming (with nobody finding them on an .is domain and few chances to get a .com) makes me wonder what they're up to.

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Post by EamonLeonard » Sat, Nov 19, 2016, 9:05 PM UTC

keeptrying wrote: post #3

They don't have 100M users. Just 100M names from scraping Quora, Linkedin etc. They probably have less than 1000 users I'm guessing.

Founder here. Thanks for your comments. No, we do not have 100M users. I think if we did, you'd have heard about us before now :)

What we have is a social graph that a lot of R&D has gone into, using public data - which was outlined in the post.

As I'm sure you know, a social graph is more than just a list of names pulled from Quora and LinkedIn (neither of which are sources for us, btw).

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Post by EamonLeonard » Sat, Nov 19, 2016, 9:07 PM UTC

allerhellsten wrote: post #4

keeptrying wrote: post #3

They don't have 100M users. Just 100M names from scraping Quora, Linkedin etc. They probably have less than 1000 users I'm guessing.

Good guess - less than 1k MAUs: https://www.similarweb.com/website/cohort.is That's more than just a little shady.

Me again! Cohort as a product, is a social graph first. We expose it through multiple interfaces, mobile being the one we're focused on now.

Cohort.is is our marketing website. We chose the .is TLD for a specific reason.

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Post by bosie » Sat, Nov 19, 2016, 9:13 PM UTC

keeptrying wrote: post #3

They don't have 100M users. Just 100M names from scraping Quora, Linkedin etc. They probably have less than 1000 users I'm guessing.

Why would you think they have 100M users?

"As of today, Cohort is a social graph of over 100M people, and over 700M relationships. We are understanding 10,000 people and their networks a day."

That says "people" and not "users"