JumpyWaffle

Micheal_Scott AMA

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!

15mo ago

WigglyDonut

Student15mo

What made you want to build Grapevine? How did it begin?

JumpyWaffle

Grapevine15mo

It’s a very long story. But the early team of Grapevine - we were all just friends working in tech hanging out during the pandemic.

One day in 2021 we got really curious about the salary inflation and excess of jobs in 2021 and ended up creating Corporate Chat India - our first discord community. The community grew fast and became very sticky. Found thousands of awesome people there - some of whom made new friends, got jobs, got raises or went on trips together.

Somewhere around the same time last year we decided to make Grapevine as a proper app for itself as it was clear to us that communities don’t scale. But an app like Grapevine can.

The goal is to help people just like us (tech professionals) at scale and have a tonne of fun while at it

JumpyWaffle

Grapevine15mo

I can go on about the stories from the Discord server times. But that would take days 😝

But yeah we’ve been curious about getting professionals together within communities for a long time :)

FluffyNugget

Plivo15mo

What are some of the metrics u look at everyday and which among them you would say concern u or the investor if there’s a significant change ?

JumpyWaffle

Grapevine15mo

metrics I care about (among many others):

of daily visitors

of comments

Ratio of Comments to Posts

of people actually opening Posts (Level 2 page)

of people who share posts from Grapevine

Diversity of posts (topics, post type, etc)

GroovyBoba

X (formerly Twitter)15mo

You forgot the 2 most important metrics:

of meme posts

of rich fucks posting their high salaries for validation

SparklyBanana

Stealth15mo

What's your role in grapevine?

JumpyWaffle

Grapevine15mo

I’m one of the founders. I have the most grapes. So yeah I’m a big deal here LOLL 🥶

GoofyDonut

Stealth15mo

And I've the most tomatoes 😇

PrancingNugget

Stealth15mo

Have you had a job before this? If yes, what was your previous job? Additionally, how does Grapevine plan to generate income in the future to ensure its sustainability?

And we're fully aware you're not bidding adieu. we just love having you here, spreading humor and actively participating. That's it 😄

JumpyWaffle

Grapevine15mo

Hey hey, thanks so much you don’t want me gone! :)

Yes I used to work at Google. Around 4 years work ex. Enough to understand that people want to talk a bunch about work and work related topics :)

Generating income is going to be a long term game. For now Grapevine is really obsessed with creating as much user value as possible. In the future if we have enough users - making money via jobs seems like the best option since we also think connecting people with the right jobs is a productive cause 💪

SleepyLlama

Stealth15mo

@Micheal_Scott We can provide you a placement plugin here! Let's talk?

GoofyDonut

Stealth15mo

Congrats on crossing 10,000 posts 🥳

JumpyWaffle

Grapevine15mo

Oh thanks so much @potatomato

I’m slightly worried that you knew this data point and I didn’t 😂😂

GoofyDonut

Stealth15mo

Huehuehue

CosmicJellybean

Novartis15mo

Any plan to give money to users like Twitter?

JumpyWaffle

Grapevine15mo

Woah! I’ve actually thought about this before. You seem to be stealing my thoughts here. It’s an awesome idea.

I mean we can think of it in the future when we have money. But today since we are poor - likely not.

GroovyBoba

X (formerly Twitter)15mo

We will get flooded with LinkedIn bhaiyas & Didi's looking for clout and monnies

WigglyBanana

Stealth15mo

@Micheal_Scott ji kya aap ko aam khaana pasand hai?

JumpyWaffle

Grapevine15mo

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

FluffyNugget

Plivo15mo

@AlphaGrindset kya aapke toothpaste me namak hai?

SparklyBanana

Stealth15mo

Why didn't you address the rumours at the beginning itself? It was fun though.

JumpyWaffle

Grapevine15mo

😂😂 I didn’t address the rumors because I was loving the memes too much

SparklyBanana

Stealth15mo

Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well

SnoozyPanda

Unilever15mo

How do you really go about moderating the content ? Tech usage or manual work ? How's grapevine supposed to evolve like ?

JumpyWaffle

Grapevine15mo

Moderation is super important. We don’t want people abusing/bullying each other, or using Grapevine as a platform to abuse/bully people outside. Talking about companies and cultures and teams is usually fine

Awesome grapeviners send us 20-30 comment/post reports every day.
We also use a AI based system to auto flag abusive content.

Then we take a call to remove or keep said content as per our community guidelines. They’re available to read from the hamburger menu :)

SnoozyPanda

Unilever15mo

Is it too early to predict what grapevine can become or you already have a vision for it ?

PeppyPickle

Stealth15mo

Yeh naam he kyu @Micheal_Scott 😂😂

JumpyWaffle

Grapevine15mo

I love The Office. And it made sense for Grapevine to have an incompetent office manager like me 😂

PeppyPickle

Stealth15mo

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