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Show HN: quick social contact list concept of mine

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just another late night, weekend idea of mine.

my totally refined elevator pitch: it's Quora, without the Q&A. what does this leave, you might ask? well, the best part, imo - contacting people of interest, easily.

i just finished a couple hours of coding on this, and you can only really sign up and set your contact information. once you set your contact info, you're indexed by the full text search engine. people can locate you based on your name, email and company for now. It supports full-text searching, so searching for any part of the available fields will result in a match.

being the super awesome day dreamer that i am, i have about 100 feature ideas for this. does anyone think this might be cool or useful?

temporary url i already owned: http://cohack.it/

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this is also hosted from my terrible time warner internet, from my house. apologies if it's super slow. my internet has funky dns issues.

searching for * will show all entries. wildcard support should function as expected.

domain and the idea seems a bit unmatched in my view. wildcard support is nice. what features are you planning to add?

Ah, yea. The domain has nothing to do with the content, really. It was just a domain that I had.

I'm kind of brainstorming some ideas, but the goal is to keep it simple and minimal. Focus on doing well at locating people's contact info.

I see you changed some stuffs today. good to know you are shaping it. i even signed up just for the sake to test it. why you think would people sign up there to just leave out their contact info - and do you care if the contact info is valid?

here are some thoughts

with just search box i don't see any contacts at first visit, add some clue that i will get people's profile using search (don't do that with that one paragraph of text). you can list people's name with profile link in place of the text you are showing below search box (manage this text somewhere with Help??? link). you can work on yammer or LinkedIn like email verification. don't list contacts unless they are from verified domains. make browsing contacts more visible - allow peoples to tag their info and allow browsing by tags too. don't show actual email in plain text on public listing. and when i update settings, info is getting replicated check that too.

good luck. John Doe

Thanks for the feedback. I have been slowly working on this. I'll play around with your suggestions and see if they help.

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