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Great Job on the Web app! Guess I can use less of my phone during office hours. Still waiting on more grapes from the startup world :p

Id love to see Grapevine create a catalogue of Grapevine approved verified anonymous accounts of detailed employee accounts of how good or terrible a company is. Think The Ken but filled with employee reports. But the style of writing leaning on the casual office gossip side. And the content saved in an archive and searchable. The biggest problem of course would be getting people to verify their identity to a Grapevine mod or writer may be tough. Me personally, I’d love to talk to some writer about my experience at my previous businesses. So many scoops and insane stories! (I dislike Glassdoor for the HRs infiltrating and BSing everyone)

How did you come to know about it? What made you download it? And why are you still using it? Building anything in social is so hard. I want to know how they got the users.

Hey Folks, We really do want to deliver the best Grapevine possible for you. 100s of comments and emails over the last few months have been helpful in getting us moving in the right direction. There's also 2-3 awesome launches coming up in the next couple months (many of which were suggested by members here). But we thought about getting to speak with a few people in more detail. Specially understand your current use case and long term expectations/product ideas for Grapevine. If you'll be so kind to come speak with us for 30 minutes, please consider booking a time slot from this calendly link: https://calendly.com/michaelscott-/gvine-catchup Disclaimer: This WILL NOT reveal your on-platform identity to the Grapevine team. We won't be asking you to mention your username or any other personal details on this call. Trust us on that!

What are we gonna do with the grapes we accumulate on Grapevine?

At one time I had contemplated building an app like grapevine. i.e. blind for India. Kudos to Grapevine folks for executing on the idea and actually building it. There was one wacky idea I had which I'll share. Rest assured it's wacky. A company based/wide live chat for anonymous internal ranting. The dream was that the entire company would chatting and voicing their realistic thoughts during a boring ass all hands meetings. Of course there are legal problems with this as chances are you might get sued etc etc also the problem of verifying people from an org without comprising on anonymity. Anyway let me know your thoughts. Cheers

Hey folks, update to the latest app to get everything below :)

Hey Folks, I thought I should do an AMA specially after yesterday’s rumours that I have been laid off from Grapevine - this isn’t true 😂. It is however true that I have been PIPed and have a much reduced role now xD To be serious: Happy to answer any Grapevine questions that you may have. Features, ideas, questions on why we do what we do welcome - I’ll answer what I can! Cheers!

I’ll go first. To me, it’s all about access. Access to authentic ideas. The best search result you get on Google is high SEO but low authenticity. On LinkedIn, there are so many people but everyone is shilling a course or 1:1 resume reviews. Mostly it has become a place which started as vanity signalling Like ( I have started a new role…, I have been accepted at …, I have received offers from F, A, N and G and I’m joining G.) And now people pushing mindless content with “Agree?” or “Comment Interested”. Somehow, everyone is truly inauthentic to please a wider audience and say the exact same generic gyaan to maximise engagement. For now, Grapevine is where people are genuinely themselves and I get to hear interesting things that you get to hear near the coffee machine. Kinda feels like we’re all a big community where we all contribute and learn new things about the professional landscape around us. Godspeed Grapevine. 🚀