It is popular to hate on Swapcard, and yet Swapcard seems like the best available solution despite its flaws. Claude Code or other AI coding assistants are very good nowadays, and conceivably, someone could just Claude Code a better Swapcard that maintained feature parity while not having flaws.
Overall I’m guessing this would be too hard right now, but we do live in an age of mysteries and wonders. It gets easier every month. One reason for optimism is it seems like the Swapcard team is probably not focused on the somewhat odd use case of EAGs in general (e.g. from what I understand, most conferences in the world have much less emphasis on 1-1 meetings).
And if you made a Swapcard replacement good enough to replace Swapcard for CEA event purposes, just think of the glory. (And the impact.)
There is however rising appetite for 1v1s. I just went to an online meeting about Skoll world forum, which is probably the biggest NGO and Funder conference in the world. Both speakers emphasized 1v1s being the most important aspect, and advised only going to other sessions at times when 1v1s weren’t books.
So maybe the GHD ecosystem at least is wakign up a bit...
It is popular to hate on Swapcard, and yet Swapcard seems like the best available solution despite its flaws. Claude Code or other AI coding assistants are very good nowadays, and conceivably, someone could just Claude Code a better Swapcard that maintained feature parity while not having flaws.
Overall I’m guessing this would be too hard right now, but we do live in an age of mysteries and wonders. It gets easier every month. One reason for optimism is it seems like the Swapcard team is probably not focused on the somewhat odd use case of EAGs in general (e.g. from what I understand, most conferences in the world have much less emphasis on 1-1 meetings).
And if you made a Swapcard replacement good enough to replace Swapcard for CEA event purposes, just think of the glory. (And the impact.)
@Yonatan Cale posted a demo last week of an app he’s building in the EAG Bay Area Slack.
Yes,
I could use help understanding the demand for
Similar features but less bugs
Focusing on CEA’s use case (making more high quality connections, right?)
Can you help me with this @Eli Rose🔸 ?
Cool! Re how to build it, I’d just talk to CEA here or maybe EAG goers, don’t think I have any insight to add.
There is however rising appetite for 1v1s. I just went to an online meeting about Skoll world forum, which is probably the biggest NGO and Funder conference in the world. Both speakers emphasized 1v1s being the most important aspect, and advised only going to other sessions at times when 1v1s weren’t books.
So maybe the GHD ecosystem at least is wakign up a bit...