Cuppa is an amazing experience. The double opt-in and the cache of the community makes for an actual valuable USP. So much better than lunchclub or any other competitors. Most importantly, it gives you a reason to come back.
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#12Totally love using Cuppa cos its more consistent than a random encounter IRL (built amounts twitter) and very close to the rich, life-changing encounters you have at an awesome conference (everyone there is probably interested in what you do). Would love to see this used for meetups and topical convos on a rolling basis.
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#13Love this!! Takes all the hassle of the whole “Twitter Dm” -> “Let’s Zoom sometime” -> “Scheduling a time” routine.
Thank you Garrett, that was the best explanation of our value prop haha :)
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#14Cuppa is an amazing experience. The double opt-in and the cache of the community makes for an actual valuable USP. So much better than lunchclub or any other competitors. Most importantly, it gives you a reason to come back.
appreciate that. We love Lunchclub too who are working hard in the same market but we like to think we're way more community-driven and a simpler UX (no AI just one big community calendar with people's open time slots):)
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#15I totally fail to see the appeal of this from the angle of anyone involved besides maybe recruiters and whoever is trying to charge for it.
I love how it has to mention their creep prevention system in the first couple of lines as if that has been a big problem for them.
Also almost all of the positive comments in this thread are either the CEO or someone with less than 20 karma (new accounts created to pump this)
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#16I've been using Cuppa since June and I've met really interesting people on it. That list includes therapists, no-code makers, entrepreneurs.
No agenda and no hard selling on anything. I've personally had a better experience on it than Lunchclub, which I felt like a substitute for a sales channel.
I was building an app and I received a lot of good feedback and encouragement on it. In a time, when I was completely socially isolated, these conversations really helped.
Ways to reduce abuse of this platform is to restrict the number of coffee chats you can have in a week.
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#17I totally fail to see the appeal of this from the angle of anyone involved besides maybe recruiters and whoever is trying to charge for it. I love how it has to mention their creep prevention system in the first couple of lines as if that has been a big problem for them. Also almost all of the positive comments in this thread are either the CEO or someone with less than 20 karma (new accounts created to pump this)
Totally understand, it may not be for everyone. We have 500+ beta users from 26 countries who are finding value in meeting with peers to talk shop and brainstorm.. in times like this.
Had to laugh at the "creep prevention system" comment, it was not BECAUSE we had such a problem at Cuppa but because we all have used "Chatroulette" in the 90s and remember how quickly it can turn into a perv magnet. Early checks and balances are good for the community in the long run :)
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#18I've been using Cuppa since June and I've met really interesting people on it. That list includes therapists, no-code makers, entrepreneurs. No agenda and no hard selling on anything. I've personally had a better experience on it than Lunchclub, which I felt like a substitute for a sales channel. I was building an app and I received a lot of good feedback and encouragement on it. In a time, when I was completely soci…
Thank you Kavir, so glad to have you in our early beta club :) And congrats on your recent project launch! We're considering limiting the number of Cuppas to 5-7 per week soon!
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#19I 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 talk…
Hey Alex, thanks for the thoughtful comment. We're very early in the journey so had to stick with only 1 use case to calibrate acquisition well.
I love the idea of connecting speakers with educators trying to help students get into tech. A lot of communities have reached out to us as well to run "Cuppa for X" programs to build engagement within their network. It's on the roadmap!
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#20I’m skeptical about the sourced from twitter part.
I used to be very impressed by industry celebrities. The kind of people with a zillion SO or HN karma, blogs, books, podcasts, conferences speaking spots—-real name recognition at least in some corner of the tech universe.
But then over time I’ve found myself in workplaces with some of these folks and it turns out that if you do all of that, well that’s what you do. Building your own personal brand is a job and it doesn’t leave much time to build either software or engineering organizations.
Personally I’m not much interested in building a personal brand (different strokes though) and so I don’t think it would be all that exciting to talk to a bunch of people that are experts in doing so.