Known replaced the profile with a conversation. Instead of writing yourself down, you talk for about fifteen minutes to a voice interviewer, and what you said becomes what Known works from. Then it sends you one person at a time, with a written note explaining why it thinks you two should meet. There is no grid to browse and nothing to swipe. It also runs parties, so the introduction can happen in a room instead of a thread. Two Stanford founders, Celeste Amadon and Asher Allen, started it.
Notapub runs on the same premise, that talking is a better input than a form, and gives you the whole thing for nothing. You can say what you want out loud on a call, or type one sentence, and people who fit it show up continuously.
This is not a pub. Ages 13+.
Known is right that a fifteen-minute conversation holds more of a person than any set of fields. Speaking, you mention the thing you would never have typed: that you moved for a job you have since quit, that you want someone who can be around family a lot.
On Notapub the call does the same work and it is not an entrance exam. There is no minimum length. You can talk for two minutes, hang up, and have something usable, or skip the call and write one line, or do both across a month as more of it occurs to you. What you said keeps working after the call ends, which is the part a one-time onboarding interview cannot do.
Known's pacing is deliberate. A single person, periodically, with an explanation, is a real answer to the exhaustion of an endless list, and the explanation is worth more than the person in a lot of cases because it tells you what the system thinks you are.
The cost is arithmetic. Slow pacing over a year is a small number of people, and if the fit is off you wait for the next window. Notapub keeps the explanation and drops the rationing. Every person who comes to you arrives with the line of your own words that they answer, and there is no queue and no next window.
Known is a romance product. The interview asks about relationships and the introductions are romantic.
Notapub does not ask what kind of person you need. The same sentence finds a landlord, a running partner, a person who has taken the drug your doctor just prescribed, or someone you would want to know for years. People say several unrelated things and get several unrelated kinds of person back. Where one of them is more than that, that is your business and the app does not label it.
Known charges. Notapub does not, and that is not only a saving. A paid introduction has to be worth its price, which pushes a product toward fewer, heavier, more ceremonious matches. A free one can afford to be casual, and casual is what most of these are. Asking a stranger how they found a good dentist here is not a waste of an expensive slot.
No. The call is one way in. Typing a sentence is another, and pasting in something you have already written elsewhere is a third.
Yes. Each person comes with the specific thing of yours they answer, so you can see the connection rather than infer it.
There is no schedule and no cap. It depends on what you asked for and who is around.