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Comment by dleslie | Hacker News Reader

Still looking for an alternative self-updating Rolodex.

There’s still LinkedIn or Twitter if you must.

Twitter is quite frankly worse. And I don't know if I am personally acquainted with even a single person who actively uses LinkedIn. I wonder if the latter is an SV thing?

I don't think LinkedIn use is limited to SV, but the qualifier "actively" makes it unclear what you are trying to say. What is "active" in this context?

A median time between updates of less than 2 months over a 5 year period.

LinkedIn serves the same services as a CV and a job fair.

I've never met a single person in my country who uses either one. Yet everyone I meet has a Facebook account.

I don't understand what you mean by self-updating. You still need to "friend" new people. How is that different from adding them to your contacts?

They update their own contact information.

everyone I care about is on slack

there's only one reason it doesn't exist... go build it.

Building it isn’t the hard part.

Keeping it sane is.

Indeed, building it is easy but getting people to update it is hard.

Maybe if you emailed people every month or so asking them to update their info if it’s out of date?

A great many people that I communicate with stopped using email regularly ages ago. For younger folks the means of communication are messenger apps and social platforms.

Marketing it is. I actually thought about this idea for a long time, and did a design based off of the phonebook in iOS 11.

But marketing this application is nearly impossible, because it doesn't have any extra features. It just has phone numbers [contact details], and that doesn't excite users to spend time getting it set up.

So I concluded that this is something that has to be done from the OS vendor side. We need an extension to the CardDAV protocol, and we need vendors to implement it.

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