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Still looking for an alternative self-updating Rolodex.
by dleslie 9y ago
Still looking for an alternative self-updating Rolodex.
- mr_spothawk 9y agothere's only one reason it doesn't exist... go build it.
- matte_black 9y agoBuilding it isn’t the hard part.
- abhishekjha 9y agoKeeping it sane is.
- dleslie 9y agoIndeed, building it is easy but getting people to update it is hard.
- matte_black 9y agoMaybe if you emailed people every month or so asking them to update their info if it’s out of date?
- dleslie 9y agoA great many people that I communicate with stopped using email regularly ages ago. For younger folks the means of communication are messenger apps and social platforms.
- chrisvalleybay 9y agoMarketing it is. I actually thought about this idea for a long time, and did a design based off of the phonebook in iOS 11. But marketing this application is nearly impossible, because it doesn't have any extra features. It just has phone numbers [contact details], and that doesn't excite users to spend time getting it set up. So I concluded that this is something that has to be done from the OS vendor side. We need an extension to the CardDAV protocol, and we need vendors to implement it.
- owly 9y agoThere’s still LinkedIn or Twitter if you must.
- blhack 9y agoTwitter is quite frankly worse. And I don't know if I am personally acquainted with even a single person who actively uses LinkedIn. I wonder if the latter is an SV thing?
- perl4ever 9y agoI don't think LinkedIn use is limited to SV, but the qualifier "actively" makes it unclear what you are trying to say. What is "active" in this context?
- blhack 9y agoA median time between updates of less than 2 months over a 5 year period.
- lev99 9y agoLinkedIn serves the same services as a CV and a job fair.
- freddie_mercury 9y agoI've never met a single person in my country who uses either one. Yet everyone I meet has a Facebook account.
- jes5199 9y agoeveryone I care about is on slack
- jadedhacker 9y agoI don't understand what you mean by self-updating. You still need to "friend" new people. How is that different from adding them to your contacts?
- rabidrat 9y agoThey update their own contact information.