The Pond

Match with your ideal cofounders and startups

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Match with your ideal cofounders and startups

2 followers

The Pond is a free, user-friendly matching app that connects entrepreneurs with their ideal co-founders and team members. The app saves entrepreneurs time and hassle by curating high-quality, relevant matches every day.

Launch tags:Android•iOS•Tech

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The Pond

Maker

Hello Product Hunt! We are thrilled to be announcing the launch of The Pond! We’ve been working on this for several months, and we’re excited to finally share it with you all. We built The Pond to be the entrepreneur's essential tool for finding the best people for their startup teams through targeted matches and detailed profiles. Finding a co-founder is often the most difficult part of getting a startup off the ground. You’re trying to find someone nearby who has complementary skill sets, a matching personality, similar interests, and an appetite for risk. No wonder over 90% of startups fail! This is where The Pond comes in! Here are some of our favorite features: - 5 quality matches per day - Startup-focused profiles: showcase your unique credentials - Accept, decline, or revisit profiles that you’re not sure about - Import data from LinkedIn - Detailed company profiles We’re eager to hear any thoughts or feedback that you have! To download our app, visit our website - https://thepond.app!

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7yr ago

@bernice_galebach congrats on the launch! How would you describe the Pond vis-a-vis other services like FounderDating?

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7yr ago

The Pond

Maker

@richparet Hi Rich, thank you for asking! After speaking to a couple hundred entrepreneurs, we found they needed a more targeted, manageable way to meet a great cofounder or find a startup team to join. Current platforms require the user to spend a lot of time searching for the right person, cold emailing, and waiting for a response. We built an app for entrepreneurs to showcase their track record, put in targeted filters, receive relevant profiles, evaluate whether that person is a good fit, and strike up a conversation if both parties agree to connect.

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7yr ago

PromoRepublic

@bernice_galebach Congrats Bernice! The Pond looks quite awesome :) How about an interview about it at StartupRadius.com (that's you target audience I believe)? Send me an email to Paul(at)StartupRadius.com if interested!

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7yr ago

The Pond

Maker

@paul_shuteyev Hi Paul, thank you! I just responded to you via email!

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7yr ago

PromoRepublic

@bernice_galebach received and replied! :)

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7yr ago

I'm a big Shapr user. I have to say that the quality and interest of people in The Pond has been higher. I think it must be that the profile structure is strongly oriented toward co-founders and those that want to start a business, not just 'network' to meet professionals... which usually means try to sell some MLM or invest in crypto. UI needs some tweaks, but that will improve swiftly with time

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7yr ago

The Pond

Maker

Hi @newalexandria! I'm the app developer for The Pond, and thank you for saying this! We've talked to a lot of people on Shapr and other platforms and they had very similar observations. We really wanted to make a high-quality app with a very focused use-case. If you have any specific UI comments I'd love to hear them! My email is will@thepond.app

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7yr ago

1Brand

Congrats on the launch, Bernice! I setup a profile, and the onboarding experience was good. My one concern is the focus on external funding - it would be great to see an option for revenue-funded / self-funded. Just selecting Pre-Seed could set an incorrect expectation that you plan to raise.

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7yr ago

The Pond

Maker

@tela Hi Tela - Happy all went smooth with sign up. Thank you for your suggestion! I love this idea, we will incorporate this into the app!

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7yr ago

The Pond

Maker

@jack_price2 We launched in the US to start and we plan to launch in the UK in the future! We do not have a set date yet, I can let you know when we do!

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7yr ago

what happened to this app?

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5yr ago

Itmeo

Congrats with the launch!

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7yr ago

The Pond

Maker

@alina_komarevtseva Thanks so much Alina!

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7yr ago

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