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by jasongi 890 days ago
The whole point of a personal recommendation is you're introducing people you know are good to people you know and trust you. What's the value-add by inserting a new app into the process, that charges one side?

LinkedIn works because you attract supply (e.g professionals) with the draw of getting the personal recommendations/network effects for free and then make money off demand (e.g employers/recruiters) by letting them pay to win and send you spam.

Two-sided marketplace businesses are supposedly the hardest to get off the ground. Especially if you're trying to charge for something that is currently offered for free.

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Thanks for checking it out! The Pro Plan is only to have unlimited profile visits, and meant for hiring managers so i'm charging kinda like linkedin sales nav.

I think the value add is that you can traverse a network of recommendations (u -> your friend -> their recs etc).

So it's a limit on displaying other profiles, not a limit on how many times my own can be. Okay.
Yeah exactly – my bad I gotta make that clear!