Kudos for building this! I’ve just signed up and seems amazing. Hope it delivers upon that expectation.
I signed up and it feels like my data was just collected, and I'm unsure if it's just the user responses or ingestion of my linkedin text that will be used.
Overall leaves me with a negative experience ... Maybe an email confirmation saying something might be good reassurance.
Will this work for any type of job networking or is it just for tech people?
i tried to login and it gives me a
"Your account is being set up, check back here later."
and a prompt to change my password
The question I find my self asking is "what type of person is using this?" "who do I want to connect with?" "why would I want to connect with them?"
You have a bunch of corporate logos, but I don't know what you are implying with them. That people who work there are using Overlap? Why are they using it?
I was happy to find "success stories" in your footer, but clicking on that lets me tell you about my success.
I need/want to hear from your users that they are having success. I want them to tell me why I need overlap.
The more I think about it, the more I am wondering why this is better than LinkedIn, where everyone already is. Sure, I get spam, but that's easy to filter, and I am there filtering it.
I feel like overlap is going to be giving me more spam, and now it's in my inbox, which is precious to me. Why is overlap going to earn a place in my inbox?
I've never understood the Bumble Bizz (which I think failed), but LinkedIn has been quite successful for me.
A matching system for an accelerator seems very different than a more generalized site, which it seems you've built here.
Let me be clear, I'm not saying what you've built isn't valuable, but distribution is the key to getting something off the ground, and a two-sided marketplace, which is what you have, needs a good distribution strategy.
Have you thought about focusing just on the accelerators, incubators to grow overlap, so that when people like me are hearing about it for the first time, I'm not wondering why I would use it, but rather, I know, person X,Y,Z met there, or it was successful in this way. Etc etc.