I’ve been to a lot of networking rooms. Career fairs. Conferences. Mixers where you meet twenty people and leave with a head full of first names.

The hard part was never “add them somewhere.” It was remembering them later—who was from this event, what I was doing that year, and why that conversation mattered.

What I Used to Do

For a long time, my system was just LinkedIn. I’d connect right after the fair or the conference. Looking back at career fairs going all the way to 2019—like SHPE and ALPFA—it was always the same pattern: scan the room, talk, and connect later.

But what actually helped me remember wasn’t the connect button. It was the note.

After each event, I’d leave a comment on the connection specifying where we met and the year. Something like: “SHPE Annual Conference, 2019.” Boring, but specific.

That one line did two heavy-lifting jobs:

• It grouped people by place: They weren’t just a “random LinkedIn face,” but a “person from that specific room.”

• It framed me at that point in time: It captured where I was in my career, what I was hunting for, and what that season of my life was about.

Without the note, the connections blurred. With it, I could scroll back years later and still feel the energy of the event.

Turning the Note Into a Product

I’m trying to make remembering people faster.

In mee.contact, an Event is that LinkedIn note, digitized. It’s a dedicated bucket for the humans from one room. When you open the app later, you’re not reconstructing the night from scratch. You’re looking directly at the people you met at SHPE, or that Phoenix mixer, with the context still attached.

It’s the exact same instinct as writing “SHPE Annual Conference, 2019” on a connection, just with way less homework—and less hoping you’ll remember to type the note while you’re exhausted in your hotel room.

Where This Meets the Hand-off

The share still happens in the moment: you show your QR code, they land on your digital card, and they save it.

What I’m building toward with Events is even simpler than typing a LinkedIn note after the fact:

• Context-driven links: You share your info for a particular event. The link itself carries that context.

• Automated sorting: When someone saves your contact and shares their info back, it lands in your app already tied to that specific event.

• Zero reconstruction: You aren’t guessing “where did I meet this person?” a week later. The product already knows.

It’s a seamless experience on both sides. The “where-we-met” part rides along with the hand-off instead of living only in your memory.

From there, the real work begins: following up to build a genuine connection. If mee.contact makes remembering someone easy a year down the road, then I’ve succeeded.

Recap

• Who I am: I’m Luciano Huapaya.

• What I’m doing: I’m building mee.contact in public—an app to automate the contact exchange so you can stay present when you meet people.

• Status: Not on the App Store yet. This is the raw journal of getting there.