Sounds like a great idea. Just an idea for another feature: a word counter. I tend to often use words like "um" when I'm nervous.

Good look on your product :)

I work on a similar side project called one-on-one.tech

People can schedule one-on-one meeting with their interests. Others can then get in contact to arrange a virtual/real life meeting.

Current focus is on bigger companies but an open version is out for everyone to use.

Feel free to get in touch with me!

How is your tool different to scoutbee?

Hi HN community!

I’m Dennis and happy to show my side project one-on-one.tech which I built over the last couple of months. It’s a website which helps professionals to improve business networking by having one-on-one meetings with other professionals who match their interests.

Problem:

I hate the traditional way of networking and I bet many of you too. Too often I found myself in networking situations with other people but couldn't get much value out of it. After thinking about it for quite some time I ended up with 3 reasons:

- Lack of common interests: Working as a technical person in a business department I usually have a counterpart who has completely different interests than me. Even though it is still nice to learn about other topics I couldn’t expand my network with people where I could benefit from (and the other way around).

- Approaching people can be awkward: This counts for real life situations as well for online situations. Do people actively network via Linkedin?

- Networking in groups: Often when I was in a networking situation, I was in a medium sized group of people with extremely unpersonal conversations.

Solution:

I actually started this project as a capstone project for learning purposes after a django course with no intention to build a real product. That's the way it is when you are bored during the pandemic so one year later I have the first working product ready which aims to solve the problems stated above. My website allows you to create so called “one-on-one” meetings. These one-on-ones are always related to specific topics so people get to meet like minded counterparts. Other users can then reach out to the one-on-one creator in order to organize a conversation like a virtual/ real coffee. No AI involved which creates matches for you. You decide. My main goal is to bring together the right people and raise the quality of networking.

Technical Implementation: I used Django as backend and HTML, CSS and Javascript as frontend (nothing fancy). I implemented a very basic Service Worker in order to provide a PWA. My website is hosted on Heroku.

Future:

After investing quite some time in this project I want to validate this idea in public in order to get feedback. My actual goal is to implement this in larger companies for networking between employees. I feel like there is great potential for this as the networking possibilities in large enterprises are very poor (Please challenge me on this assumption).

Tell me what you think about the idea & the product itself. Any feedback is highly appreciated!

Congrats to your project.

On parts of the site you should check the responsiveness. For example I was able to scroll far to the right on the project lists (android & chrome).

When I uploaded my profile picture it was very distorted.

Overall I like it and think it is a good idea!

Thanks for your feedback, I'm working on improving the responsiveness and to add a resize/crop functionality to picture upload. Until then, the best format for a profile pic is a square, this will avoid any distortion.

Without looking deep at the technology part I was wondering if this could be used as an alternative for avalanche transceivers in backcountry skiing. Avalanche transceivers use radio signals to find each other in case of an avalanche. They are very high priced and unfortunately a lot of people then decide to not use one. Having a cheap and reliable version using a phone could save lifes. I'm very curious to see if this is feasible