This is the reason I started Dex (YC S19) -- tried Monica and while it solved the right problem I found it a heavy -- it felt like to much work. To be a single source of truth I wanted to import from Facebook / LinkedIn etc, and I didn't find it possible with Monica. (plug: Dex does)
Founder of Dex here! Apologies for the involved flow + being booked through December. Since everyone manages relationships differently, we've found it a valuable step for our new users. ('do things that don't scale'). If you send me a note (you'll have my email from completing the survey), also happy to send self-service instructions as well.
Hi Kevin, I sent you an email last week asking if I can skip the call and have not heard back. Would you check my email from junwon@product.ceo, activate account, and send me the self-service instruction?
Dex (YC S19) | Founding Engineer | Full Time | San Francisco + Remote | $80,000 - $120,000 + 1-6%
Dex (https://getdex.com/) is a personal CRM that helps anyone build stronger relationships. Thousands of users use the Dex dashboard and Chrome Extension to remember where they left off and set reminders to reach out.
We’re looking for a founding engineer with experience building and shipping product. There is a tremendous amount of ownership and autonomy you’d take on -- and you’d be able to ideate and build features from start to finish.
Dex | Founding Engineer | Full-time | San Francisco or Remote | $80-120k + 1.0-6.0% | https://getdex.com/
Dex (YC S19) is a personal CRM that reminds you to keep in touch. Thousands of people already use Dex to stay on top of their personal and professional relationships.
As the founding engineer, you'll be given unprecedented autonomy and ownership to solve a profound consumer problem. You'll also wear multiple hats joining this early — implementing new interfaces, writing integration pipelines, designing systems, and setting the course for how engineering works at Dex.
If you're interested, apply via AngelList or feel free to email directly with a bit about yourself to kevin (at) getdex.com. Remote candidates will also be considered.
Totally get your concern. We'll surface the privacy policy more prominently (+ work on making this more clear), which you can access here https://getdex.com/privacypolicy.
Dex is run as a subscription service ($7.99/mo), something we'll also make more clear on the site. Appreciate your feedback here -- this helps me understand what I need to change!
Thanks for sharing your experience -- as you mentioned we've built Dex around the import experience for now [since typically those people get more value out of the product], but definitely trying to make Dex more fully featured for folks who would prefer to add manually!
Thanks for this suggestion -- this is something I've thought about (especially in relation to helping users remember a good reason to reach out). You can do this sort-of with the tags in Dex now, but admittedly not a perfect solution.
I would really like for the version of the product to move towards something like this -- a big struggle with relationship management now is some degree of fragmentation.
Some of the integrations you mention (FB/WhatsApp/Messenger/LI) are hard to do since these companies don't expose API access (and we'd have to ask for user credentials, which aren't always straightforward!). I'm very curious -- would you be open to sending your credentials to Dex to enable these integrations?
You're right on both counts. The company started approximately 9 months ago, focused on different ideas in the relationship management space; traction prior to YC was minimal.
The plan to grow the userbase is content marketing + advertising as we figure out unit economics. The plan to make money is to charge $7.99/month for the product. Market size estimates this early are tough to get right, but we believe anyone who uses LI (645 million users) can manage relationships better with Dex.
This is an interesting insight -- definitely aware of Dunbar's number but haven't thought about the best way to incorporate it into Dex. Appreciate the suggestions!
