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In addition to this thread, those looking to network with other HNers should check out Kismet: https://findkismet.com

Disclaimer: I created it and that's how I found my cofounder.

Hi there, I signed up with Kismet a long time ago and loved the idea. Unfortunately, most of the profiles kismet emailed to me were low quality. Most profiles were sparsely filled out. Are things better these days?

They are! Now people who don't fill out their profiles only get matched with other people who haven't filled theirs out. Of course in theory you could still get someone that pastes in lorem ipsum or something, but I haven't seen that happen yet.

How come you don't you add a field in the profile stating what they are there for like - need a cofounder, want to join a start up. Maybe an interest field too. Just some thoughts!

yeah, a larger text field where on can write an introduction and add more more details would be useful

how do you match? the first match i got doesn't make sense. i wrote:

need help with finding clients for web development projects

can help with software development, managing developers, qualifying tech job candidates, mentoring developers, training programmers

and then i get a match that says:

Can help with: Product Design

Needs help with: B2B Marketing

that's not a match at all.

Cool. I just signed up. Neat idea!

Pretty cool!

Nice! Going to signup as well :)

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