Networking, minus the networking

Stop networking.
Start showing up.

The professional network built on what you already do for fun. Trail runs, climbing, pickleball, long dinners. You show up for the activity. The relationships handle themselves.

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What we're replacing

Your career has a networking problem.
Your weekends have a group-chat problem.
Same fix.

The career problem
“I’d like to add you to my professional network.”

From a stranger. Who wants to sell you something. In about four minutes.

The conference badge.

Eight hours of small talk in a windowless hall. Two business cards. Neither one ever called.

“Let’s hop on a quick call.”

Thirty minutes on your calendar to establish that you are not a fit.

Congratulating someone on 4 years at a company you've never heard of.

You don't know them. They don't know you. The algorithm is thrilled.

The group-chat problem
“We should totally do something.”

Ninth month running. The chat agrees. The chat always agrees.

The trip-planning thread.

412 messages, two polls, one shared spreadsheet. The trip does not exist.

“Wait, when works for everyone?”

Never. The answer is never. Someone suggests a Tuesday at 2 p.m.

The birthday-dinner negotiation.

Fourteen dates proposed. Three polls. It's nobody's birthday anymore.

None of that is a relationship. A relationship is the fourth time you've run the same trail with the same person.

How it works

Three steps. None of them
involve a business card.

01

Pick what you're into.

Running, climbing, pickleball, golf, chess, long dinners. Whatever you'd be doing on a Saturday without anyone asking.

02

Show up to something.

Events on a calendar instead of in a group chat. One tap to join. One tap to bail, too. We're not monsters.

03

Leave with people, not contacts.

Tap phones at the finish line. The follow-up writes itself when you've already suffered through something together.

It's built

Here's the whole thing.

The app as it runs today, pulled straight off the phone.

The feed

What's happening this week, from people you'd want to meet anyway.

One tap in

Count me in. Or bail out. Nobody here is keeping score.

The handoff

What you're building, what you need, what you can offer. Beats a paper card.

A week on Network+

This week's rallies.

Running
Sunrise founder run
Sat 6:30a
5.2 mi · easy pace
JDMKRS
8 going
Pickleball
Investor pickleball open
Wed 5:30p
Doubles · all levels
ALTNBW
12 going
Dinner
Operators dinner no. 4
Thu 7:00p
One table · nine seats
CVPE
9 going
Climbing
Beginner belay night
Tue 6:00p
Gear provided · no experience
SMKODR
14 going
Chess
Saturday chess + espresso
Sat 10:00a
Blitz · bring your clock
NVJT
6 going

Sample events, real format. Yours will be closer to home.

Everywhere else you've tried

You have an app for every piece of this.
None for the part that counts.

Tickets in one place, your miles in another, your contacts in a third. Nothing that turns a Saturday morning into someone you actually know.

Where you're doing it now Where it falls apart network+
Event ticketing

Built to sell tickets, not to introduce anyone. You watch a panel, take a tote bag, and go home to the same people you came with.

Network+

Small, capped on purpose, and the same rally runs again next week. Week two is when names start sticking.

Professional network

Ten thousand connections and nobody who'd pick up the phone. The pitch lands about four minutes after you accept.

Network+

You meet on the trail first. The profile is the thing you check afterward.

Activity tracking

Tracks the run beautifully and stops at the finish line. Kudos from someone you've never spoken to has nowhere to go.

Network+

The run is the excuse. Coffee after, the intro next week, the deal in March. All of it lives here.

Weekly meetings

A 7 a.m. roll call, dues, a referral quota, and a room you didn't pick. It's a second job with a breakfast buffet.

Network+

No dues, no quota, no roll call. You show up because you were going climbing on Tuesday anyway.

Local communities

Nine coaches selling a course for every one person posting a real plan. "DM me for info" is not a plan.

Network+

Every item on the page is a time, a place, and a list of who's coming. There's nothing else to scroll.

Interest groups

Half the groups haven't met since 2019, and the RSVP list is fiction. Twelve yeses, four humans.

Network+

A live headcount and real names, on profiles that say what people build and what they need.

Getting into the room was never the hard part.

Self-selection

You'll like it here if…

You've run a marathon and never once posted about it on LinkedIn.

You'd take a 6 a.m. climb with three people over a 200-person mixer.

Your best client came out of a pickup game, not a pipeline.

You think “let’s grab coffee sometime” is where relationships go to die.

You won't if…

You came to blast 500 connection requests at strangers, harvest emails, or post a carousel about your morning routine. There's already an app for that. It's very popular. Go nuts.

Every relationship that mattered to my career started by doing something with someone. Usually outdoors. Usually early.

The deal, the hire, the co-founder. All of it came from a trail, a court, or a long dinner. Network+ is that, on purpose.

AH
Alex HansenFounder, Network+

Your Saturday is already booked.
Might as well meet someone.

Host the first one yourself. It takes about ninety seconds, and three people showing up beats three hundred connections.