my orbit idea

The problem

• Sometimes we miss out on opportunities to bond with people you bump into because it’s hard to sometimes to get to know them much

• The problem is not that people are not able to meet up with new people. We bump into people so many times. We have our friends and the friends of our friends that we can also be friends with. But when do these relationships ever grow? In some way, people need a reason to even attempt to get closer to someone because it takes a lot of effort and courage to get closer to someone. We give them these reasons

• In this day and age, we meet and know so many people everyday. The problem? We don’t remember most of them. And even worse, we’re not close to any of them.

• Especially for new university students, they meet so many people, but the truth is most will be forgotten. Because in the time and place where they met, it was too noisy and not the right place to get to know someone.

  • What if there were a better way to remember the people you meet? Not just get to know them initially, but actually remember them: who they are, where you met, the context of the meeting, and why you would want to stay in touch (AI can help with that)

• In university, it’s not hard to bump into people or find someone to talk to. The real struggle is forming meaningful relationships and having reasons to stay in touch. Events are hectic, and it’s tough to go deep in conversations. This platform could change that. It can highlight shared interests and help you connect on a deeper level.

• When you meet someone you you’re not sure what to ask them

• It’s hard to be intentional with your relationships. What if we can make it easier to be intentional and reward people for being intentional

• This is most important and most likely being used with partners and people in a relationship

• We wanna enable everyone the ability to have a space in the internet that truly represents them

Solutions

• There are different levels of revealing that the user can set up:
  • These are gonna have a QR code for revealing just the basics like fun facts and their socials
  • Then there’s another QR code that adds in, for example, their life ambitions and life mission.
  • Another QR code can be specifically for someone they like
  • We can even do one for networking and career
  • So different QR codes can reveal different parts of you
• Instead of asking, “What’s your Instagram?” you’d just say, “Let me scan your QR code,” and instantly find them on every integrated platform.
  • In the future, it can even be something like carrd or beacons.ai where the user can create their own website with no-code and put things they’d like to share to the world
• The motto could be something like, “Never forget anyone you meet” or “Remember everyone you cross paths with.”
• I want to encourage social curiosity and reward it
  • the data could be stored in a vector or graph database, with AI powering it so you could search through your network and see visualizations of your connections, shared interests, and common traits.
  • The AI can generate trivia questions/convo topics on the spot as a way to get the conversation started. 2 truths one lie game, etc..
  • E.g. The AI knows we both traveled to Germany, and Jake loves talking about travels, hence it would create a question for Lilly to ask Jake that would enable Jake to share their experience
  • Having cards with questions is so static and not personalized. What if these cards of questions are given from the other user or given based on the AI’s knowledge of us two
  • The AI would come up with mutually beneficial and meaningful conversation topics
  • Have a way for the platform to effortlessly store these answers
    • the simplest way is to listen to the convo and pass the transcript to the AI. But there’s still some friction in making the AI listen to your convos and ofc privacy concerns
• Imagine a scenario where two people connected on this platform five years ago, and they randomly bump into each other later. One of them thinks, “Wait, I’ve seen you before,”. So they look for them in the app, and finds exactly when and where they met. It becomes this kind of memory vault of all your real-life meetups.
• We could encourage people to take a photo together when they meet. Then both parties get access to that photo. It’s not social media though. it’s private, secure, and focused on the individual connections
• Effortless entry is key. It needs to integrate seamlessly with platforms like Instagram, WhatsApp, Google, and so on.
• Eventually, it could even expand into things like helping schedule meetups. But for now, the focus is on maximizing the potential to bond with anyone you meet.
• “Optional sharing” feature:
  • Sometimes people are hesitant to open up. They might not want to reveal certain things unless they know the other person shares it. Like if someone was homeschooled and isn’t that open about it, they probably wouldn’t mention it in the first conversation. But if they both had that in common and the platform could reveal it only if the other person also was homeschooled, that could be huge

Target audience

• People with strong social skills might not need it, but it still adds value by helping them remember people and maintain connections. On the other hand, shy or introverted people (since they don’t like small-talk) could use it as a tool to start conversations (because most of the time, introverts enjoy socializing but they need a reason to, we give them that reason. e.g. You both traveled to Spain)

Problems with the solution

• retention:
  • The platform is less valuable when you’re not meeting new people.
• I don’t think students want a relationship management tool/personal CRM. They don’t have time to manage relationships that way
• We have to rethink relationship management for students. How it looks like, what they care about, etc.. given that students are not too willing to spend time “managing” their relationships
• Spreading the product:
  • getting people to share it with their friends. The value needs to be immediate, and the user needs to be willing to share it with their friends/new people they meet
    • branding will be very important for that reason. People need an easy way to explain the product to these people and why they should care about signing up
• Students don’t wanna pay for premium
  • We can try convincing them that this is life-changing through good marketing.
  • TODO: user and market research to see
    • who is willing to pay
    • how much they are willing to pay
    • What are the free products and what are the paid

MVP plan

• Show people the power of GraphRAG in real time

How it works

User onboarding & data acquisition

• login with OAuth2 to get basic into on user
• onboarding starts with a conversation with an AI that gets to know you
  • optional:
    • complete form manually
    • Have a phone call with AI
    • import data from different sources like letterboxd, spotify, etc…
• The AI will show the user a UI of how their website looks like in realtime to another guest visiting
• The user can confirm their updates anytime during the conversation. Confirming results in the changes being published
• The user can come back to the chat anytime to expand on their profile
• The AI is an expert in communicating in a way that would get the user to share a lot about themselves (not in a manipulative way. The AI just knows how to communicate very well)

What you see after onboarding

• Your dashboard where:
  • you can chat with the AI
  • See how you and all your “friends” connect with each other and get to learn more about your friends and what you can talk about next time you meet

What everyone else sees when they view your page

• A simple aesthetic page that reveals what you guys have in common. Whether it’s a shared music/TV show taste, or ambitions and life goals
• Two users become friends only if one of them scans the other’s QR code (can only be done irl). No element of sending a friend request. It’s bidirectional

Timeline

• week 1-2: Low fidelity mockups & high fidelity mockups & user feedback
• week 3: A simple chat interface That takes users’ information that they share and turns it into meaningful facts that we store about them in the backend