What if Group Chat was Networked?
This week we are releasing a substantial update to Cohort that combines your network’s potential with real time communication, and more. Now you can easily chat with people who you share a real world network with.
☝️ Cohort helps you find the people you need, through the people you already know and trust.
Thousands of you took the time to download Cohort when we launched with a simple yet powerful user experience a few months ago — Thank you ❤️. We made it easy for you to understand who you can ask a favour of in your network, and how you could easily search interests, skills and people you would like to be connected with.
It’s been a busy few months, and we’re excited show you how we’ve built on the foundations laid out in the first release.
[TL;DR at bottom]
Core Philosophy
Our goal is to help you realise the potential of your network, by bringing you closer to the work of the people who are important to you — we’re joining dots.
If Cohort’s core is about joining those dots, then this update is about making them grow. This release really brings the power of real world networks to your finger tips.
We have taken some of the best known VCs and startup programmes in the US and Europe, analysed their networks and bundled them up into cohorts.
If you work at any of these funds / programmes, or if they have invested in you as a founder, you can now easily access interests, skills, abilities and people in these networks. We call these Community Cohorts, and they represent the first step towards mapping Cohort’s social graph of 2+ billion relationships, to real world structures.
If you’d like to see your organisation, fund, company, programme, open source project, alumni or community group on this list — let us know.
Relationships are Built on Communication & Trust
So now, not only can you search your own cohort of close relationships, you can also search real world networks that you may be part of. For example, if you participated in Y Combinator in the past 5 years, you can easily tap into the networked potential of those alumni, and search for access to insights, experience or influence.
And now you can easily chat with people who you share a real world network with (or who are in your personal cohort of close relationships), and you can collaborate on solving problems with social capital.
Looking for the right person to hire? Looking for advice on what to do next?
Who can introduce you to that person who won’t take your calls?
If you’re a member of any real work networks, these are the kind of things you probably have tried to use them for in the past. And they’re often time consuming tasks.
Now with Cohort, you can easily search across these real world networks, and in a few taps, be chatting to someone who can help you out.
Own Your Network
One of the easiest ways you can help people with Cohort is by telling your network, or indeed the world, how you can help them. Cohort has always made it easy for you to share the things you’re interested in, and now we’re making it easy to share how your network can help.
Cohort profiles are only visible to other Cohort users by default. But if you want to make your profile visible to the world, you can do so in a few taps.
For example, here’s mine, in Cohort.
And here’s what it looks like on the Web 👉 http://cohort.is/@EamonLeonard
You can share your Cohort in your email signature, or be like Alan, and tweet it out to your followers:
One More Thing!
What has two thumbs and launched Cohort on iPhone only?
This guy.
But yes — Android. Cohort is now also available on Android.
Try Cohort!
Thank you once again to everyone who has given us valuable feedback over the summer, and to the thousands of you using Cohort ❤️
Cohort for iOS
Cohort for Android
TL;DR
- Cohort is now available on both iOS and Android.
- You can publicly show and share your profile on Cohort, eg:
http://cohort.is/@EamonLeonard - For certain people, they will have access to Community Cohorts. If you work at or have been funded by some well known venture funds in US and EU, you will see that you are now part of their Community Cohort, and you can search and communicate within it.
- We have introduced chat, so you can collaborate on opportunities with people in your Cohort, or who you share a Community Cohort with.
If you’d like to find out more about our thinking around Cohort as an evolving product, join us on Product Hunt.
