Your business card should end up in a phone’s addressbook. But it ends up in a dustpan aided by a jhaadu & eventually in a dustbin. So much so for fretting over its design & content.
I am not being hyper.
“10 billion biz card printed in US alone in 2012. 88% thrown in < 1 week.” Read https://www.statisticbrain.com/business-card-statistics/
Firstly, it’s strange that so many paper based products are vanishing but business card hasn’t. Stranger because all the info *printed* of the biz card is digital & finally consumed using electrons. Phone #, emailId, company website, LinkedIn profile url, Twitter handle & the newest change-the-world social networks.
The luckier biz cards (of luckiest men/women) are sent either to company’s “scanning” dept. or *digitized* back using the likes of CamCard app. Heck, the card was digital before it got printed – a photoshop/core draw file!
Strange world where Google buys a BumpApp to bump it. But something must be wrong about Bump – can you imagine 2 CEOs bumping their phones? Or the awkwardness, where you have say someone “Oh download Bump app” in an event at Taj Vivanta.
I think something about contact info exchange solutions is wrong the same way messaging was wrong. Until a Whatsapp came.
No, we have not made a killer product in Whatsapp sense. But we read, all post with word “business card” on this forum & that & this & that. Then *unlearned* everything & wrote the following on clean slate.
a) what if you *touch* your biz card to a phone & all the stuff in it goes directly into the addressbook
b) what if you can change your phone # on your card without reprinting your card
c) what if you can connect with someone on LinkedIn while swinging in Mumbai local
d) what if you could know who took your card, when & where
& we took some bets. took help of some much-maligned technologies that Uncleji’s mock but teens love, took a bet on what Apple will do in iPhone6.
We made 1Card – the digital business card ->> www.1Card.in
Folks,
I am Raghvendra Saboo (https://linqs.in/raghu). I founded Yuvera Solutions. Yuvera makes www.linqs.in
When the world would get tired with apps (it already is), when we would get tired of being stationary & start rediscovering physical worlds, when we would want everyday things to be smarter – we’ll provide a solution for it. We already see that happening.
We are a platform for digital discovery in physical world & things. We add “clickable” hyperlinks to the everyday things.
If you like 1Card, buy it before we close the Intro offer on shop.linqs.in If you don’t, do let me know whats wrong with me 😉
Update: Short rough video of 1Card in action:
