First off, beautiful looking website. Nice job on the branding.

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.

I found it strange that LinkedIn url is required. It did't give me 'we want to make sure you are real' vibes. Instead it gave me 'we're about to collect some data about you' vibes. As an introvert I don't love it.

It's true, LinkedIn is too spammy, which is why I don't have an account. Unfortunately, you didn't advertise that you're just a LinkedIn app until demanding my LinkedIn account halfway through signup. Please don't waste my time.

I’m currently in the middle of my month-long stay in a new and unfamiliar city - and it’s been a challenge to meet new people, especially given how unapproachable we’ve all become in the past few years. Just last night, I was wishing for something like this to exist / looking to build something like it. Seems even more interesting given it’s not local, but a location-focused, less professionally oriented service would also be cool.

Kudos for building this! I’ve just signed up and seems amazing. Hope it delivers upon that expectation.

The question that goes unanswered (and will turn people away) if you want to use this site is: how and what data is being used to inform the overlap algo.

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.

I like how the terms of service and privacy policy are actually readable. Overall, the site design is really nice. However, I got stuck at "Your account is being set up, check back here later" so, feedback-wise, this is as far as I can go.

Why is overlap important? Maybe only for collaboration in future. Why can't I unbundle a person's interests and expertise and pick and choose? Isn't that what current recommendation systems supposed to do ?

Sign up using email + password didn’t work. Complained about missing ‘reCaptcha’, but there was no captcha in the page :(

There was a Networking focused on HackerNews users, targeting similar demographics. I still get emails once a while from there. https://findkismet.com

This looks very cool!

Will this work for any type of job networking or is it just for tech people?

I dont get what the point of this is. What do i get out of it?

tried to sign up multiple times with an email on firefox, disabled privacy badger and ublock and still just gives my loading circle after a successful POST to create the account, doesn't redirect the page

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

what are those 4 icons of google, amazon, airbnbn, openai on landing page for? I never understood why people are doing this.

excited to try this out! am definitely in your target market

What an infuriating website, popups over everything, the first time it even had some badly sized type into this... with no way to close or move it off half the screen

I wonder if in a similar spirit the apply to YC form can be used to match first time founders and VCs outside of YC.

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