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Cohort — Find the people you need, through the people you trust
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Anyone ever use Medium Series for a product walk through? @rrhoover
https://medium.com/series/-eba2f...
Hey, good to see this launched @eamonleonard!
Looking at the new app I can't see what I can _do_ with it right now. How do you envision this ultimately being used?
@ideasasylum hey Jamie. You're right. What we have launched with is very simple, and less involved than what would have been in beta builds. About two weeks ago we decided that it'd be an overloading experience to launch with the all the features we had built, in one go.
Right now we just want people to be able to focus on who you know, who they know and what they know.
Here's a teaser of one thing that's next [Edit - fixed bogus dropbox link]
@eamonleonard nice! fwiw, I think that's the right call. I used an early beta and struggled with the open-ended request field
@ideasasylum oh yeah, the natural language asks... one of those things that sounds cool until you let it loose.
Cohort helps you find the people you need through the people you already know and trust — your cohort.
It does this by conducting network analysis, detecting areas of interest and potential expertise, by looking at publicly available data, all packaged up neatly in an easy-to-use mobile app.
They just launched at Collision in New Orleans. You can read more about the here: https://medium.com/@EamonLeonard...
Hi Everyone,
I'm the founder of Cohort. @erictwillis thank you for hunting us ✌️
We're a team of 5, based in Ireland. We've been working on Cohort for about a year and a half. That might sound like a long time for something that looks simple, but untangling people's relationships and interests from a complex web of data takes time.
We've built a social graph of 2 billion relationships from Twitter data, and we've analysed the interests of 215 million public profiles. When you sign in, we suggest people you might know well enough to ask a favor of, and this forms the basis of your network of meaningful relationships - your Cohort.
Then within a couple of taps you can discover who in your Cohort is best placed to introduce you to those who can help you with things like advice, influence or expertise.
@eamonleonard @erictwillis Interesting angle, I like the language of people you could ask for a favor. Curious , what was the use case or problem you had in mind when starting out? Especially with the favor in mind.
@airjoshb good question! We think of being able to ask for a favor as an indicator of social capital or relationship strength between two people. This is really what makes networking work - and there wasn't anywhere I could easily leverage my social capital to help others or solve my problems.
@eamonleonard great idea. I am very curious as Twitter is not the place where I have "personal" relationships with people, yet the group I follow/follow me are likely much more likely to have an impact. Really commend you on thinking of social capital in this way.
@airjoshb wow, thank you! The best bit about this is the more you use Cohort, the better you're making it for those who are in your cohort.
@eamonleonard @erictwillis - untangling relationships and identifying the meaningful ones is a really interesting problem space. In Cohorts, aside from showing areas of interest and potential expertise, are there plans to expose the strength of your relationship to the 'connector'?
@joshlowy eventually yes, but likely not based on "just" the data. Human feedback is required.
People often talk about networking as personal salesmanship. I think more of us could take that seriously. Both asking for and offering favors is an important part of building a network.
@kwharrison13 Right on! For me, networking is more about how I can help people. Eventually, it comes back. This is how you build social capital, and how you build a network that lasts. We want Cohort to help you better understand how you can help people.
Hey Eamon, thanks for making this. I've felt that getting easier access to our own networks for work is key. Using LinkIn etc, isn't a great solution. Excited to see where this goes.
I really appreciate this idea, as I had a similar one recently, but no way to bring it to life (yet). Would be nice to have a web-based version, like Prefer does.
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