App first started rolling out to users in January as a private beta that included about 20,000 people from countries all over the world. From high school students to Fortune 100 executives to celebrities such as every kind of user seemed to be getting in on the beta.
Humin CEO and cofounder Ankur Jain says these early users he calls them "influencers" were selected partly because they have enormous unwieldy contacts lists. Before Humin, these contacts were likely organized alphabetically with little to no context.Providing these individuals with access to Humin's contextual search, which lets you find people with queries like "met last weekend" or "works at Google," helped the company fine tune the app's design."The most common feedback we've gotten is why hasn't this been done before," Jain toldMashable. "The idea itself is pretty intuitive, because it's what we naturally do all the time. It's just that technology has only now allowed us to solve this problem.
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