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Show HN: Nowy Connect – Ultra-Local LinkedIn meets name tags
- silviu_nowy 11y agoNowy Connect (https://nowyconnect.com https://nowyconnect.com) is a smartphone app that helps people be smarter networkers. The app shows users the professional profiles of nearby people. It is designed to be primarily used at events, to help people forge new professional relations, by helping them choose the best chat partner available. Think of it as ultra-local LinkedIn or digital name tags. There are 3 things that set Nowy Connect apart from other people-discovery apps: proximity, real-time, better privacy. First, proximity. The app focuses on the people who are up to 30 meters away from you. People a mile away do not appear. Second, real-time. The app shows you people who are right there, right now. Not people who were where you are half an hour ago. Third, better privacy. The app uses Bluetooth Low Energy to figure out who is nearby, not GPS or users' checkins - this means they are more accurate w.r.t. who is nearby, protects better users' privacy, and has lower battery consumption. The app uses IBM Watson to make it even easier for people to find out interesting people to talk to. You just tell it who you’d like to meet, for example, “I’d like to meet mobile application developers,” and Nowy Connect will notify you when someone matching your description is nearby. Check out the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTAw5aOHw0o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTAw5aOHw0o