Micheal_Scott AMA

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

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 :)

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)

You forgot the 2 most important metrics:

of meme posts

of rich fucks posting their high salaries for validation

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

And I've the most tomatoes 😇

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 💪

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

Oh thanks so much @potatomato

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

Huehuehue

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.

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

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@AlphaGrindset kya aapke toothpaste me namak hai?

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

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

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 :)

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

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