So I've never been on like the ground floor of a new piece of technology. I've gotten
things when they've come out like the apple watch. I got it actually on pre-order and
air tags. I got right after they came out, but I've never been online. Nobody has this
yet. And this is a new piece of technology and you're one of the first people to get
it.
And when this gets big, you will be able to say you were one of the OGs, like that type
of ground level for a piece of technology. And today I wanted to share with you my thoughts
on something. Could be really great. And that is dive, tap more specifically the NBT, nothing
but tech with Jacklyn collaboration, with dive tap, which is this little card thing.
And yes, it might not look like it, but it is a piece of tech not just a piece of plastic.
When I watched the announcement live stream for this card, not even knowing what it was
going to be. I was very intrigued. So intrigued that I was one of the first twenty-five people
to order it. I know that because I use the first twenty-five people coupon code and it
worked.
So in this video, I wanted to share my thoughts on the NBT X, dive that card, let you know,
like literally what it is. And if I think you should get one.
Well, it's Annelies. And the way that I got ahold of this card was a lot of happenstance.
If you are familiar with nothing but tech, AKA, Jacklyn, Dallas, she is a creator here
on YouTube. She is a fellow woman in the tech space here, and she makes really awesome tech
videos. She's got about 150,000 subscribers and she announced like, I don't even know
how long ago.
Teasing that a new product was coming out. I just somehow ended up on the announcement
livestream at the perfect time when she explained what this tap card was. I said, Hey, only
4 17/13 ish dollars. That is a worthwhile impulse buy for a concept. That sounds pretty
dang cool. Now what the hell is the concept?
What is this thing? Well, it is pretty much a virtual business card if I were to Hmm.
If I was working with NBT and dive tap, and I had to elevator pitch this card, I think
what I would say is that with this card and it's NFC technology and software, you can
store links, a digital contact card files and.
Direct links on it and transfer that to somebody with just a tap to their mobile device. That's
the gist of it, but let me show you how it works. So I've played around with my tap card
already. I have set up the links on it. I have kind of figured out the mechanics of
it all. So this is set and ready to go on.
IPhone you place it right next to the camera. Now, NFC, if you're not familiar is the technology
that is used for apple pay and Samsung pay. So think of it as wherever you would put your
phone. If you're going to be doing a digital. Type of situation. So I tap it here and now
I get something on my screen that says open tap dot, dive.fyi.
I opened that link and now it brings me straight to my YouTube channel. That's like the gist
of it, you tap it. It says open this link, and then it sends you to whatever you're trying
to send to. But let me show you like the dashboard for this card, because I think that will help
you understand what it is.
And I'll also be able to show you some things that I. And some things that I do not like,
so I've saved the portfolio is what they call their dashboard. So if I interchange those
words, that's what I mean is like pretty much the homepage of how you do the settings on
this thing and how you customize it.
I've saved that to my homepage actually. So I'm just going to open that up and this is
what it brings you to, you have this like drawer, portfolio, dashboard, whatever of
in theory, all of your cards. Now for me, one card makes sense. I don't know what reason
you would have for needed. A whole bunch of these cards, but that option is available
for you.
So as you see, I've got my little campfire dude, I'm going to tap on it. And now I have
like the settings for my tap card. This app website thing is designed beautifully kudos
to the developers because I think this looks really great. If we scroll through here, we've
got our functionality for the card essentially is this whole actions tab.
And then there's an analytics section, but this is the concept of your. Card dashboard
thing. We're just going to get to the action because in my opinion, that is the star of
the show. And the only thing that matters to me. So if you look at these four rectangles
on screen, under actions, you see three of which that makes sense to what I said earlier.
Link, contact and file sharing. Okay, cool. We'll get into those later, but they're pretty,
self-explanatory the thing that doesn't make sense is hydrogen. That is the way that dive
allows you to create all your lines. On one link. If you're familiar with like a link
tree where you go to one website and there's literally a company called link tree, but
the concept of having one link sprouts off into different links, like a link spider,
a diagram, same concept.
It's pretty much the same concept. So if I tap my card to my phone and it brings me to
my hydrant URL, the hydrant is one, a very interesting name. It's whatever it's short.
And that's one thing that they market is that it a short. Now, if you look at my hydron
card, I don't know what you want to call it.
I've got a whole bunch of links down here. Then I have a little bio here. I've got a
picture. It says my name. And then also it has dot U E N V. This is something you cannot
change. And it is. Customized. I believe they referred to it as a dot, which has some acronym,
but it's pretty much saying that that is the custom URL.
You get everybody who uses hydrant, whether you have a card or whether you just use hydrant
as a service, because you can actually use hydrant without having a card. It would be
H Y D R I N slash whatever your special code is, the reason why they did that seems to
be because it makes it shorter, but it was like, You know, four to the fourth power.
There's only so many options you have after that. So it's going to have to be expanded
at a certain point. There's going to be five letter combinations. Also. I think the thing
that's appealing about link tree is that you can put your own username on there. So it
feels more like a custom personal link and not just some random thing you're clicking
on.
And especially since hydron doesn't have any notoriety right now, I think it makes it less
likely for people to click on it because they're just seeing a whole bunch of series and letters
and slashes. And what have you that might get confusing that is just like, Expressing
my thoughts on the matter, but I don't think it's bad.
If something that's cool about hydrant is there are no paid options. So no matter what
you can customize the background color, it's really simplistic. I like the look of it.
It's very modern technology and I think it just looks nice here. You can only do solid
backgrounds, but like ain't no big deal. So with all that being said, that is the gist
of hydron one link for all of your links.
I don't know if there's a limit, but I haven't been met with a limit yet. That's grand. And
then you can kind of understand what I mean by link contacted us file the link action
lets you assign a specific link to your tap card and tapping your card will take you directly
there. The contact action gives you the ability to easily share a contact that you filled
out within your tap portfolio.
And the file action allows you to share photos, videos, and documents up to 32 megabyte. Through
a tap now to talk about the portfolio dashboard area for just another second, because that's
all you pretty much need to know is the things that can do and then how you change it, you
change it by just tapping on it.
And if you look next to the action thing, it says speed. So speed mode just means that
if I tap on one, yeah. Cubes, whatever you want to call them. That now means that's what
my car does. And that's super freaking cool. Cause it works so fast. If I click on speed
and change it to default, that is how I open up the settings for each action and then change
it.
I could go to the link change what the link is. The thing I do like about the share link
section is all the links that are in my hydrant are right. So, if I wanted to switch my link,
I could do that super fast just by tapping on it. Now, just beneath the action sections,
we have this very minimalistic graph.
These are your analytics. Now for me personally, I don't understand the concept of analytics.
I don't know if that's something that's going to be expanded, but the only, I guess, use
case I could see for something like that would be if you're at like a convention, networking
with people and you're just.
Tapping away sharing your contact info, your links, your hydrant, whatever. And then you
want to go back and go, Hey, I wonder how many people I networked with today. Oh, it
was one, I guess that would be helpful, but I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if
the analytics seemed to be something that is not for me, but maybe it's for you.
Who knows? But a qualm that I do have with the portfolio slash dashboard slash app, like,
what is that called? It's not se. It's not, it is interface, interface UI. Oh my God.
Wow. That was a hard one. But when it comes to the UI of the portfolios slash dashboard,
whatever you want to call this is that it looks really great.
It interacts really well. And there are things. That want to interact like an app, but since
it is a website, those gestures seem to not be transferring over in the same way, especially
on a mobile device, the way that you're supposed to be able to set your actions. If you're
in default mode is by swiping.
If I go to any of these things. So for instance, like the link, I want to set my link. If I
swipe on it, it either doesn't do anything or what's been happening more. So yeah, I'm
just getting kind of like nothing. Or what's been happening more is that it's been highlighting
the whole thing, which I'm so surprised that it's not highlighting it because it's literally
been doing that the last like hour I've been screwing around with this I'm swiping and
I cannot change the thing.
So at least it's not highlighting the whole webpage, but you know, when you're trying
to like highlight a piece of text, that's, what's been happening when I've been trying
to swipe on the things that they say that you can swipe up. So it's just one of those
things that if it was an app, maybe the interaction would be different.
Apps are expensive and hard to make, and it takes a lot of time. So maybe one day, but
according to their FAQ, they will never be an app. So never say never, but, uh, that's,
that's where we're at right now, but otherwise I wish that this app was laid out in a different
way. All right. So if I could give my completely unsolicited notes on the design of this website,
first of all, I would make this section up here and crunch it down.
That's a lot of wasted space. These two buttons, they need to be smaller because they're not
that important. The action section that's totally fine. I just wish it was moved more
up to the top because that's the most used part. The buttons, the analytics at the bottom,
those are fine. Just make them smaller.
The analytics section. That's fine. Just, yeah. Button's smaller. If I had to redesign
this website, I would put the actions at the top. It would be more condensed and there
would be less scrolling involved as a person who has a history yeah. Of going to large
events, where there are a lot of networking opportunities.
I know the importance of getting your information out to other people. What I think is really
cool about this card and what made me so interested. Enough to be one of the first 25 people to
buy it is that it makes networking and sharing your information really freaking easy. It's
a matter of having whatever you want on here as your action, ready to go.
There's a lot of options. I think that this one little piece of plastic could work so
well for. Not only just one situation, but many situations. There are many situations
at one event, that's a better way of phrasing it, that this could work well for. And it's
so versatile and it's kind of a conversation starter because you're right.
Maybe meeting with people and they go, Hey, do you have a business card? And you're like,
yeah, let me tap your phone. And they're like, huh. And then you do it. And it's an interesting
thing. And also not as many people have something like this. And so when it comes to being memorable
saying that you gave them.
Essentially a digital business card through tapping their phone and working some sort
of magic is kind of cool. Something like this could be a really unique way to make an impression
on somebody, even though it's not your idea or your technology or anything, you're just
a consumer. It's still really cool.
So the next time I go to a VidCon. I don't know when that's going to be, because I'm
moving to London soon, but any who's old when I go to a VidCon in the future, I definitely
will be bringing this because I think it is a really cool way to share information and
network with people and not just for VidCon, but I go to theater festivals because I am
an actor as well.
And those have been places where I needed to network with people or when it comes to
my world as an actor. I have taught workshops in the past. And something that I had at my
workshop was a piece of paper that had everything we had gone over at that workshop, including
the names of the songs on the playlist.
I played, I printed it out and there were still people who wanted to take pictures.
Because they wanted to have a digital version, but had I had this card and had been able
to upload my PDF to my tap card. And then before people left, they say like tape the
card to a table or stick it to a table and let people just touch their phones.
I could have been like, Hey folks, come over to me and I can just tap your card and you
can download the file. Or I could have been like, Hey, I'm going to stick this to the
door. So as you're on your way out, touch your phone to the card and download the PDF
with all the information I made for this workshop on your phone.
Saving paper, saving time, saving money. And also the amount of people who took a paper
from my workshop and still took a picture of it on their phone. So that way they wouldn't
lose it. Like let's just cut the middleman of paper out of it. Put it straight on your
phone from the jump and unexpected feature was the ability to share files.
And I'm actually really appreciative of the fact that it's on here because when I first
heard it, I was like, that's kinda weird. Um, sharing. What, and now it all makes sense.
Now that I've played around with it and obviously not use it in practice, but use it at home.
Like the gears in my head are starting to turn as two ways.
This thing could be super cool. And I think they executed everything really well. Of course,
I have my little like WAMS with the website, but that's not like a. Issue. It's just more
of like a hiccup that you run into. And now I know that hiccup exists and I've found a
new workflow. That's the only real issue I had.
So like one issue out of a brand new product, which by the way I mentioned this earlier,
this thing was only $17. There are four versions of this card with different patterns on them.
The ones that have like the most flare to them. These are all 17. The one with the NBT
logo is 13, and that is nothing to bark at, especially when you consider the cost of business
cards.
Like this is going to last, you, God knows how long and business cards you hand it to
somebody. And then it ends up in the trash eventually. This is an investment I feel like
is, is saying that it costs a lot of money. It is a very cheap investment that is very
well worth it. And I think it was a really successful launch.
I think that there is a lot of potential here. And I think if you're somebody who does networking
in any sense of the word, you should definitely get yourself. One of these cards. I am interested
to see how the platform evolves, especially the more people that get on board. I am also
interested to see what the future of the options of the cards are of like, you can make your
own version of the card.
I would love to design a card for myself, like upload an image, and then they print
it for me type of thing. I know that probably costs a lot of money and these cards there,
it's nothing spectacular. The design is very well done. You can tell that the paint is
wearing off on the edges though, or the printing, which for this cost, it's fine.
It's fine. I have no real complaints, but like I would really like the option one day
to be able to print my own thing on there. I would put like maybe my name and my logo
do a cool background or something. And I think that might be. It more appealing for people
to purchase them in the future to make it more custom.
This I liked, but what if you didn't like any of those designs and the ability to upload
your own would be kind of cool, but I understand that this was a collaboration. So I mean a
little bit in the weeds there, but yeah, I look forward to what the future holds for
the dive tap card. If you want to get one, I will be putting a link in my description.
It is not an affiliate link in any way. So it's just kind of like, if you want one, get
one, if you also already have one, because it seems like they shipped out really fast.
Let me know in the comments. Think of it. So with all this being said, this is the NBT
X dive tap card. I really enjoy it. I have used it just for like an hour or so in my
home, but I am already very impressed with it.
And I can't wait to finally take it out into the world and get to use it and hopefully
impressing people with my cool, interesting piece of plastic that I will pull out of my
wallet and be like, well, why have I got something to show. Anyways, y'all that is it for me.
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