The Network

A contact app, rebuilt from scratch.

website · 2026 · no public repo

Flutter · Dart · Firebase · Vertex AI · Cloud Functions

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Contacts haven't really changed since flip phones. The Network rebuilds them: each field shared on its own terms, live or a snapshot in time. Connecting and sharing are separate choices. Each person owns their profile. Birthdays, dietary needs, who's nearby, and proper business-card swaps included.

Home screen prompting to reconnect with Alice — Home. Today's nudge — reconnect with Alice.

Contacts list with connection status and AI suggestions — Contacts. Connections, suggestions, signal.

Discover view — Discover. Dot suggests who to reach out to.

Public profile. Shareable, with signal score and badges.

Edit contact form on web with phone, email, address, birthday, website, plus a Lifestyle section for practices (vegan/halal/keto) and dietary preferences, notes, custom fields, and Keep in touch cadence — Edit contact. Lifestyle, dietary, custom fields, keep-in-touch cadence.

Contact Graph clustering 33 contacts into 2 clusters by email domain, with Aaron, Tracey and drew highlighted as same-domain on gmail.com — Contact Graph. Cluster by email domain, label, source — see overlaps.

Direct message thread with rich text (lists, bold, italics), emoji, reactions and edit history — Direct message. Rich text, reactions, edits — a real chat surface.

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Built on Flutter + Firebase, with Vertex AI powering Dot — an in-app chatbot that collects user feedback conversationally and pipes the patterns straight into pull requests.

A few of the rebuilds:

Field-level sharing — share your phone with friends, your email with colleagues, your address with no one
Live or snapshot — each share either updates as you change it or freezes the moment you sent it
Connect ≠ share — accepting a connection request doesn't auto-share anything
Multi-source resolution — when the same field comes from multiple shares, you see the sources and pick what wins
Public profile at thenetwork.app/u/yourname — what's on it is entirely up to you