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OMG I am glad you asked that. Like traditional idea is to solve one side first. For first 1000 users there are only fellow chickens. So it is just engineers sh
by vs2370 11y ago
OMG I am glad you asked that.
Like traditional idea is to solve one side first.
For first 1000 users there are only fellow chickens. So it is just engineers sharing work and profiles with fellow engineers. Once we have enough chickens, eggs will start showing up. Then chickens decide how eggs contact them.
chicken - users
eggs - sales, recruiters, etc
- notahacker 11y agoThe problem is that the spam - especially LinkedIn-generated invite spam - is how LinkedIn grew. There are other professional networks out there. You just haven't heard of most of them. The trouble is that respecting people's right not to bombarded with cookie-cutter emails means that your social network struggles to even attract large numbers of chickens, and the eggs aren't likely to be interested because the same people can generally be reached more easily on the much-bigger LinkedIn. Don't get me wrong, I think there's plenty of scope for a better professional network site than LinkedIn (they don't even do job boards well, which is frankly weird given their unrivalled candidate metadata) But sadly, antipathy to spamming is the differentiator that's least likely to result in a successful mainstream social network.