Search your Gmail contacts in plain English
Connect Gmail and everyone you've emailed in the last decade becomes searchable on Happenstance. Describe who you're looking for the way you'd say it out loud, and get ranked matches with the warm path to each one.
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Your network is bigger than you think
Connect your accounts, add friends, join groups. Every signal of who knows who becomes one searchable map.
1.Connect your accounts
Gmail, Calendar, LinkedIn, Twitter, and more.
Gmail860
Contacts1,610
Calendar1,480
LinkedIn24,700
Twitter153,760
Instagram980
Outlook540Gmail search finds messages. Happenstance finds people.
Search for people, not messages
In Gmail you hunt for a thread you half-remember. Here you describe a person: "product designers I've emailed in the last year" returns ranked people, each with the context of how you know them.
A decade of history, remembered
The investor you traded emails with two years ago, the operator who intro'd you once. Ten years of correspondence is indexed, so people resurface the moment they become relevant.
Ranked by how well you know them
Who you email, and how often, is the truest map of your real network. Happenstance reads only headers (who, when, how often) and uses them to put your real relationships first.
What Happenstance users say
“Happenstance is by far the best social network search I have ever seen.”
Private and secure
You control what you share. Your public profile shows a constellation of named people you know by default, which you can turn off anytime, and your data is never used to train AI models.
Frequently asked questions
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