Re:Ask HN: Stay in touch with professional friends or former...
by tmaly on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @02:19PM
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I usually send a text or an email once in a while just to ask how they are doing.
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Re:Ask HN: Stay in touch with professional friends or former...
by recmend on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @02:27PM
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Do you use some tools to help you remember or you've a memory of an elephant :) Also, how do you choose between text or email?
Re:Ask HN: Stay in touch with professional friends or former...
by codegeek on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @02:41PM
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Are you building something related to this ? I ask because I have always wanted to build my own version to manage my network of professional contacts. Linkedin is too kitchen sink and I don't have a better solution.
Re:Ask HN: Stay in touch with professional friends or former...
by recmend on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @03:44PM
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Totally agree. I care about this space a lot. I believe, we need to be more social and less transactional, so that we don't forget about each other :)
If you're interested in talking shop, DM me at arun at recmend.com.
Re:Ask HN: Stay in touch with professional friends or former...
by tmaly on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @04:49PM
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It depends on how tech savvy the person is. If they text, I use text. But if it has been too long, I usually send an email
Re:Ask HN: Stay in touch with professional friends or former...
by cableshaft on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @03:53PM
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Hey, some verification that there's at least a little demand for an app I'm working on in my spare time. Without going too much into it, it lets you keep track of how often and how long ago you've done things. Maybe I should kick it up a notch and get an MVP out there.
Re:Ask HN: Stay in touch with professional friends or former...
by tmaly on Friday September 16, 2016 @10:42AM
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I would recommend keeping it super simple. Some of these concepts are built into much more complex systems like Salesforce. This is a key idea of people working sales or recruiters.
Re:Ask HN: Stay in touch with professional friends or former...
by cableshaft on Monday September 19, 2016 @12:24PM
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The plan is to keep it simple, otherwise I'll never get it out there :P But I personally find the data and its presentation interesting and a useful memory aid, so I was hoping other people would also.
I doubt Salesforce has something as general-purpose as I have in mind. My concept isn't exclusively for tracking interactions with people and can be used for pretty much anything you can describe with text.
My life has been a bit too eventful recently, though. It's tough to find the time to work on it.
Re:Ask HN: Stay in touch with professional friends or former...
by recmend on Friday September 16, 2016 @11:16AM
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Did you mean Salesforce has personal relationship management tool? I don't think it's a PRM problem.
Re:Ask HN: Stay in touch with professional friends or former...
by recmend on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @03:56PM
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nice! can I check it out? DM me at arun at recmend.com
Re:Ask HN: Stay in touch with professional friends or former...
by cableshaft on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @11:17AM
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It's not really in a state I can show yet. The working logic is currently a python script that dumps the processed data to a text table from the command line. on the app side I was trying to use this project to learn React Native, but I hit a major snag and I think I'm going to switch over to just plain native development, so I'll be starting over from scratch.