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I commented above but this is built to solve a big pain point. I don't carry around business cards. I meet hundreds of people that don't or they run out. Bump doesn't work because you have to both have the app and be on the same operating system (what happens when you meet someone using Android?) And how often do people throw away business cards? http://www.psfk.com/2014/11/olocode-contact-system-real-time... according to that article, just over 1/10 actually don't throw them away.

This solution is built to be platform agnostic, and send a quick introduction to get the conversation started. Nothing more.

It's not a digital business card replacement. It's taking the process a business card tries to achieve and digitizes it.

>Bump doesn't work because you have to both have the app and be on the same operating system.

Actually, Bump had a web client (although if you go to it at http://bu.mp you'll see that the web client as well as all of Bump is no more.)

I'm saying I think Apple will build Bump into the phone. Then it's game over for all of this.

What about Android users?

Guess we need an open protocol! OP should build that

haha, the problem then is still you both have to have Bump, that is a huge friction in and of itself unless Apple and Google and Microsoft banded together to make one universal connection method.

As far as I've been able to find the only two mediums that match that friction are an email or a phone number. (And we're looking at adding text message support instead of just email)

As I mentioned in another post, Bump had a web app.

A third medium is that most people have the ability to access a website. I built http://near.im/ (sorry for the ugly frontend) with this in mind. An advantage here is you don't have to communicate to another person your name or e-mail address (which can be hard for some people), just describe a short domain name.

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