Someone you know knows someone you wish you knew. Nepo Network maps these connections between you and the people you want to reach on X, uncovering potential paths to a warm intro. Explore ranked routes, see who connects each step, draft your ask, and track your outreach. Your network has a surprisingly useful extended family.
You can do great things if you know a friend, who knows a friend who knows a friend
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Ankush, developer of NepoNet.
A month ago we launched @Construct Computer here and it finished #1 Product of the Day.
That wasn't luck, and it definitely wasn't cold DMs.
Before launch day we mapped who we needed: hunters, makers with big audiences, founders whose one repost moves a launch. Then we found the people we already knew who knew them.
Every intro came from a friend of a friend, every ask was specific and easy to say yes to. People who had never heard of us showed up because someone they trusted asked them to. It worked, but it took us weeks of scrolling through follower lists, spreadsheets and guessing who knows whom.
So we built the tool we wished we'd had.
Nepotism Network finds the warmest chain of intros from you to anyone on X.
Type any handle and it maps who they follow, who follows you, and the people in between, then ranks the warmest routes and explains every step.
It tells you who to befriend first and why, with hard evidence.
One click reads up on everyone on the route and writes a plan: who to message, when, why they'd help, and drafts for each message. It never sends anything for you, you have the final say on who to get in touch with.
Track who you've asked and what happened to make your lives easier.
Use it from ChatGPT, Claude, Codex or Cursor over MCP, your agent gets the same tools you do.
Feel free to try it, type your handle and run your first search.
For our PH supporters we are offering a month of free premium
I knew it, there should be crazzy creative mind when I saw the name of the product. I just searched how I can meet Nikhil Kamath. Absolutely dope product. Congrats :)
The draft-the-ask step is what I'd lean on. I can write landing page copy all day and still freeze on a one line intro request. Does it keep my wording or does every ask come out sounding the same?
Saw Ankush's forum post about the friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend research that led here - the "guessing who'd actually reply at 2am" pain is very real and specific. Curious how you score "warmth" beyond just mutual follows on X - does it weight things like recent interactions/replies between the two people in the chain, or is a stale follow from 3 years ago worth the same as an active mutual right now?
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I’m Vibhansh, Designer for NepoNet.
While working on this, one thing we were pretty intentional about was that nothing should be sent automatically. NepoNet excels at finding you the right path, understanding who to reach out to, and drafting the ask, but the final message is always yours, as it should be.
A good connection only works when the ask feels personal, not like some automated spam cannon.
The design language of NepoNet follows the same idea. It gives you space to organize your outreach and track your progress, while also helping you find alternatives and draft everything you need without taking the decision away from you.
I’ve always loved forming personalized connection requests, but with cold outreach and trying to personalize every single message, there’s still that hesitation: “What if they don’t notice you? How do you even reach them?”
With NepoNet, we wanted to lift some of that hesitation. It doesn’t try to replace the human part of networking. It just makes getting to that connection a little easier.
how you guys usually approach asking someone for an intro?
It’s fun, it’s useful, and who knows, we might be close friends. :)
Congrats on the launch! How does Nepotism Network rank the warmest introduction paths?
This is super cool! Reminded me of the “7 degrees of connection,” they say that you can be connected to anyone in the world via 7 degrees. This is quite cool!
This is literally how @nischal_naik reached out to me :)
Somewhere in this Astra...
you and the connection that matters might be just one little push away 👉
About Nepotism Network on Product Hunt
“Great things start by knowing friend of a friend of a friend”
Nepotism Network launched on Product Hunt on September 18th, 2026 and earned 158 upvotes and 22 comments, placing #9 on the daily leaderboard. Someone you know knows someone you wish you knew. Nepo Network maps these connections between you and the people you want to reach on X, uncovering potential paths to a warm intro. Explore ranked routes, see who connects each step, draft your ask, and track your outreach. Your network has a surprisingly useful extended family.
Nepotism Network was featured in Social Media (89.3k followers), Social Networking (1.8k followers) and OpenAI Day (38 followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 29.1k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Nepotism Network?
Nepotism Network was hunted by Zac Zuo. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Want to see how Nepotism Network stacked up against nearby launches in real time? Check out the live launch dashboard for upvote speed charts, proximity comparisons, and more analytics.
Zac Zuo
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Ankush, developer of NepoNet.
A month ago we launched @Construct Computer here and it finished #1 Product of the Day.
That wasn't luck, and it definitely wasn't cold DMs.
Before launch day we mapped who we needed: hunters, makers with big audiences, founders whose one repost moves a launch. Then we found the people we already knew who knew them.
Every intro came from a friend of a friend, every ask was specific and easy to say yes to. People who had never heard of us showed up because someone they trusted asked them to. It worked, but it took us weeks of scrolling through follower lists, spreadsheets and guessing who knows whom.
So we built the tool we wished we'd had.
Nepotism Network finds the warmest chain of intros from you to anyone on X.
Type any handle and it maps who they follow, who follows you, and the people in between, then ranks the warmest routes and explains every step.
It tells you who to befriend first and why, with hard evidence.
One click reads up on everyone on the route and writes a plan: who to message, when, why they'd help, and drafts for each message. It never sends anything for you, you have the final say on who to get in touch with.
Track who you've asked and what happened to make your lives easier.
Use it from ChatGPT, Claude, Codex or Cursor over MCP, your agent gets the same tools you do.
Feel free to try it, type your handle and run your first search.
For our PH supporters we are offering a month of free premium
Try it: https://nepotism.network
Or come hang with us and the team in Discord: https://discord.gg/puArEQHYN9
ps. much love to @zaczuo for hunting us, and to the PH team again 🩵