Ripple - A new professional network from the creators of Tinder

Already failed once this concept from an Angel funded San Fran startup called Weave.

@garethtjohnson how do you delete a profile? This seems very unfinished.

Jobr already made this a few years ago and why ripple? why!? christ sake!.. 🙃

Clearly, you should change the name... https://ripple.com/

RIPPLE IS A SCAMCOIN lulz

Installed it, Uninstalled it. They should've waited before a public release. Disappointing :/

Pros:

It's a great idea, LinkedIn needs to do better and it might with a competitor from an established team.

Cons:

Doesn't work internationally, keeps crashing, very buggy

What made them think "swipes" are good idea to professional networking? Swipes are literally hormonal decisions on Tinder.

The app was a mix of real bugs, and seemingly scammy thing, like "nearby" people that were a continent away.

Pros:

Not sure, it didn't work

Cons:

Didn't work

This feels more like they started with the swiping tech and then worked backward to what it can be applied to. What's the problem being solved? LinkedIn uses circles of trust to build connections to persons outside immediate sphere. Ripple seems trying to build random 1:1 business connections, completely bypassing any trust or existing relationships. Is this how people really want to build business networks? I think they should look at how professionals spontaneously expand their network outside immediate network and then work backwards towards a product that can more easily facilitate it. Swiping to a match seems like a bad way to go about it. Airbnb might be a better model to look at, to understand how they build sufficient trust between 2 stranger parties to remove barriers to a "booking" between them.

If this pans out, this is a pretty sick idea.