Yet another social network
Does the world really need another social network? Let me ask you a simple question:
Are most of your human relationships better-off in 2024 than they were 5 years ago?
For me the answer is a resounding no.
How about these: Do you feel more closely connected with your extended family than in 2019? Do you understand your friends more deeply these days? How about when it comes to knowing what makes each of your co-workers tick? Is it easier than back then to find new well-matched mentors, collaborators, and friends?
Nearly ⅓ of US adults feel lonely according to a 2024 US News Poll1, and that’s bad news for our longevity and happiness2. We’re going the wrong direction.
Technologies that should be the solution aren’t helping, and are typically making things worse. LinkedIn feeds are mostly self-promotion and sales spam. Facebook is random people’s video clips and Craigslist items. There is little neighborly love on Nextdoor. Slack is 10x more efficient to coordinate on the ‘what’ of a project, but horrible for understanding the ‘who’.
Are we headed for a future where we’re connected to everyone but don’t know anyone?
Meet Graphlan, the Human Relationship Platform
In 2024 and beyond we need extra help to form, maintain, and deepen relationships between humans. We are busier than ever at work, accomplishing goals with fewer resources3. Friends and colleagues have moved farther apart making personal connection more difficult4. It takes more effort to know each other than ever before.
Luckily, with advances in AI understanding, automated assistance will be increasingly easier to create. But because every relationship between humans is different, no single AI can assist everyone.
Instead, an ecosystem of assistants (a.k.a. tools) for different kinds of relationships will exist; for the familial, friend, mentor<>mentee, and of course than buyer<>seller.
We are making these assistants much easier to build by providing assistants the layer of relationship context; critical data needed to be helpful, but hard to make right from a privacy and access standpoint.
While we’re not ready to share everything we have in store yet, we’re committed to providing a platform that helps assistants provide a world where we humans can:
Seek out new meaningful human relationships
Foster continued, genuine interest between each other
Make it easier to treat relations how they want to be treated
For developers, this means a platform that takes care of:
Coalescing users’ relationships’ context from multiple apps & websites
Multi-user (group) collaboration on communal relationships
Sensitive data access controls & request flows
A layer of relationship context across the internet
Bringing a built-in graph of users
Looking for Kindred Humans & Builders
We’re also looking for people like us who think there must be a better way to find and keep high quality connections. People who want to help us shape the product from its nascent stages. Join the waitlist here:
We are also looking for partners to develop the first apps on the network. Please send us your ideas here!
Thank you for the interest, and time!
- Matt