1-1 virtual coffees with top tech talent sourced from Twitter

Who is this for? I can't imagine "top tech talent" is going to want to subject themselves to endlessly being pitched to by VC's who thinks that writing their entire app for them means you get just 5% of the company. And I can't imagine without coders, it would be useful to VC's trying to recruit...

Wow, this looks great! I've seen different takes on this but I love the approach you're taking with marketing, starting the community off slowly, and using a calendly and x.ai style calendar. Hoping this takes off.

I have a suggestion that I wonder whether it has been tried - how about having a checkbox of whether someone will be having coffee or tea. That really helps create the atmosphere. It can still be pretty inclusive. On Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee someone has herbal tea.

Thank you, Ben! Our go-to-market since March has been attract interesting builders/makers from both code and no-code community via Twitter. It's been going great...had over 1100+ Cuppas (30 min virtual coffee dates) so far!

The onboarding has a set of questions like "Whats your fav coffee shop in your city?" but totally agree the "coffee/tea" would add a bit more personality to the questions!

I think a lot of people in the tech community would be open to a few 1:1 conversations with people out of their normal network now and then. This approach chimes with how (I think) community can be sustainably built and expanded in tech, both parties benefiting from possible out-of-band experiences. There’s no guarantee of that, of course, but that’s a risk people can assess when spending their time. People love talking about what they do, both for personal brand and personal enjoyment (Meet-ups and less corporate conferences are clear examples of this).

Wish the expectations of these conversations were more outlined, though. “Get on the waitlist” is a bit of a black box.

Also, maybe this is personal bias, but allowing for non-Twitter handles (I think my HN handle better resonates with my technical leanings than my Twitter, which is mostly just me posting more or less random thoughts). Looks like they’re using Twitter authentication, though, as well the “We met up” tweets have some virality, so I understand that design choice at the current moment.

After seeing a former teacher of mine ask about people who’d be willing to talk with his high school students, I think there’s also an extension of this platform to help match speakers with educators trying to help students understand what it means to work in technology (Or other fields). When I was an undergraduate we’d run part of a summer program teaching high school students how to differentiate stem cells into beating heart cells, hard to say that example wouldn’t be formative for students trying to figure out what to pursue in the future.

Met some cool people on Cuppa

Serendipity-as-a-service at it's best