Our client approached SoftwareOrbits with a vision to build Six Degrees, a mobile app that helps people remember the casual acquaintances they meet in everyday life — the bartender who knows great cocktails, the gym regular who turns out to be a physical therapist, the customer who comes back to the farm stand every Saturday.
The main objective was clear: capture the name, the place, and a few memorable details in under ten seconds, and then quietly remind the user about that person when they returned to where they met. Before Six Degrees, there was no app built specifically for this kind of relationship. Professional contacts had LinkedIn. Sales pipelines had CRMs. Family and close friends lived in the phone’s address book. But the casual acquaintances — the ones research shows are actually the most valuable for new ideas, opportunities, and information — had nowhere to live.
SoftwareOrbits designed the platform to feel effortless, private, and human. The goal was to give users a quiet tool that worked in the background of their social lives, never pushy, always helpful, and ready in the exact moment it mattered.
The brief sounded simple. The execution was anything but.
Three problems had to be solved at the same time, and each one was tied to the others. First, capture had to be fast. Field testing and behavioral research made one thing obvious early on: if adding a new person took more than ten seconds, people would not do it. That single constraint shaped every screen, every input method, every decision about what to ask the user and what to figure out automatically.
Second, the reminder system had to be helpful without ever feeling intrusive. Location-based notifications can easily cross the line from useful to unsettling. The platform had to feel like a thoughtful friend tapping the user on the shoulder, not a surveillance tool.
Third, the product had to stay focused. There was constant temptation to add features that would have turned Six Degrees into a CRM, a social network, or another version of the phone’s contacts app. None of those were the goal. The challenge was to build something deliberately narrow — a tool that does one thing exceptionally well — and to defend that focus throughout design and development.
SoftwareOrbits approached Six Degrees with a research-led, user-first development strategy, building each part of the product around how real people actually meet, remember, and forget the people in their lives.
Since launching the MVP, Six Degrees has given users a tool that genuinely changes the texture of everyday social life. Users walk into a familiar bar and remember the bartender’s name before they reach the counter. They greet returning customers by name at the farm stand. They share a curated list with a friend visiting town and know that friend will have a richer experience than they would have figured out alone.
The product also reflects what SoftwareOrbits delivers consistently across its engagements: a clear-headed translation of a client’s vision into a usable product, careful design choices that protect the user, and an MVP that ships ready to grow. Six Degrees was built to be expanded — new features, richer insights, and broader platform support are all on the roadmap — but the core product works because the fundamentals were taken seriously from the start.
For the client, Six Degrees is a fully realized first version of a much bigger idea — a quiet, human tool for strengthening the connections that everyday life keeps trying to let slip away.
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