Looking for a Tech Co-Founder to Build the Next Big Thing in Professional Networking

LinkedIn stands as the only relevant professional networking platform, but it’s far from ideal. It’s become the default layer for professional identity online, yet the experience feels increasingly brittle and misaligned with how real-world relationships actually work.

Here’s what I think is broken:

• Connections are wide, but shallow — You may have thousands of connections, but it’s hard to know who’s genuinely reachable or meaningful.
• The feed flattens nuance — Context and tone get lost; thoughtful updates feel risky, and safe posts dominate.
• Discovery is broken — You connect through chance, not shared experiences or actual alignment.
• Participation feels performative — The platform favors polish, not authenticity. Insight often gets drowned by repetition.
• The network doesn’t activate when needed — You don’t know who can help when it matters, and there’s no trust map to rely on.

In response, I have been working on an alternative vision: one that builds professional identity around trust, context, and participation, rather than just resumes and titles.

My approach is structured around three primitives:

• Communities — Topic-led, peer-driven spaces that evolve through shared learning and contribution.
• Cohorts — Structured pods based on shared history: past companies, batches, colleges, etc., to bring alive high-trust networks.
• Clusters — Short-lived but high-context groups formed around events or moments, like hackathons, sprints, or workshops.

I have written more about this in this Substack piece: https://mittaary.substack.com/p/the-next-professional-graph-rethinking

Right now, I am looking to team up with one or two engineering/product folks, ideally Bengaluru-based (but open otherwise), to co-build the product from scratch. It’s super early days, hence part-time to start, full-time if it clicks.

If this sparks anything, or even sounds mildly interesting, reach out to me at graphphantom@gmail.com.

Happy to connect. Also please feel free to share within your networks!

Cheers!