The DuckCard story

A good conversation shouldn’t end when the event does.

DuckCard began with a familiar moment: two people meet, exchange a card, and mean to follow up. Then the day moves on. We built a product that helps that connection carry forward.

It starts with hello.

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Meet Remember Continue

Why DuckCard began

It began with a card in a pocket.

At a conference, career fair, or introduction, the important part is rarely the card itself. It is the person, the conversation, and the reason you wanted to speak again.

But once the room clears, names blur and good intentions compete with everything else. Valuable connections are often lost for ordinary, human reasons.

DuckCard is here to help a meaningful first meeting become a relationship that keeps moving.

A real meeting

A conversation begins with curiosity, context, and a reason to reconnect.

The moment is kept

What mattered in the room should not disappear when the day ends.

The story continues

A thoughtful next step gives the connection somewhere to go.

Recognition & programs

An idea shaped through learning, testing, and public feedback.

Program participation

UCLA Samueli NSF I-Corps Regional Program

Customer discovery and entrepreneurial learning in a structured regional program.

Student-led project

From customer conversations to product execution.

Project lead

Sammy Fang

Sammy turns user feedback into product decisions and carries them through experience design and technical delivery.

Product direction User research Technical delivery

The product

DuckCard

Keep the connection going.

DuckCard turns the business cards you collect into contacts you can remember and relationships you can continue.

Beyond the first product

A focused product, designed to grow with the way people connect.

Future DuckCard capabilities will continue to start with real follow-up friction, understood from the people who experience it.

Clear enough to trust Useful from the first moment Built around people

Support along the way

Programs and technology that have supported the journey.

UC Riverside, UCLA Samueli NSF I-Corps Program, America's SBDC California, and Google Cloud