In short
At an event that has it switched on, you check in, describe yourself with a handful of tags, and the app shows you who in the room is worth meeting. Accepting a connection there gives you an ordinary private Connection that carries on working long after the event ends.
The matching runs on a principle that reads backwards until you see it working: you tag what you are, never what you are looking for. The strongest matches are people whose tags are the counterpart of yours rather than the same as yours — an investor is matched to a founder, a mentor to somebody seeking one. Tagging yourself with what you are hunting for makes you invisible to exactly the people you wanted.
On this page
Four things must be true before any of this works
Networking is a chain, and every link is a separate condition. When it does not work, the useful question is which link is missing rather than what is broken.
Checking in
Checking in creates your record for that event, using the display name and picture from your account. In the Linxy App you check in with Check in on the event page that opens when you scan the event’s Mark, or with Check In Now on the event’s own screen.
Checking in twice is harmless — the App remembers you are checked in and offers Open event instead. Once an event has ended, its page says Check-in is closed, and People you met takes you to the connections you made there.
If check-in is refused with a message about it not being open yet, that is the organizer’s switch and nothing you can work around.
Where the tags come from
The tags you are offered are not a single fixed list. They are assembled for that specific event from four places:
- Tags belonging to the event’s primary type
- Tags belonging to its secondary type, if the organizer set one
- Shared pools — broad sets such as geography or industry — but only those the event’s category permits
- Custom tags the organizer wrote for this event alone
They arrive grouped by category and color-coded by theme, so intent-style tags, role-style tags and interest-style tags are visually distinct while you are choosing.
Why the tags differ from event to event
The same shared pools are not offered everywhere. What is available depends on the category of event you are at, and the effect is to narrow the palette to fit the room.
| Kind of event | Shared pools offered | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Professional | All of them | Full professional context is expected |
| Social, entertainment, sports | Geography only | No industry, no job title — you are a person here, not a CV |
| Community | Industry and geography | Enough context for local collaboration |
| Education | Professional role and geography | Role matters; sector does not |
This is not a display filter. Withheld pools are not loaded at all, so there is no setting an attendee or an organizer can change to bring them back. It is decided by the event type, which is fixed when the event is created.
If a tag you wanted at a social event does not exist, nothing is wrong. That pool is deliberately absent so that a party does not turn into a room full of people networking at each other.
Tag what you are
Tags are paired. Many of them name a counterpart — the kind of person who would want to meet somebody with that tag — and the matching walks those pairings in both directions.
The result is that complementary matches, where your tag and theirs are counterparts, rank above aligned matches, where you have simply picked the same tag. Two people who both tagged themselves as founders are alike. A founder and an investor are useful to each other, and the app puts the second pair first.
So the instinct to tag what you are hunting for is exactly wrong. Tag yourself as a founder and investors will find you. Tag yourself with the investor tag and you will be shown to founders, which is not what you wanted at all.
The one-line rule: your tags are a description, not a search. The searching is done for you, from the other side.
Choosing and changing your tags
There is a limit on how many you may hold, set by the organizer and usually generous. Going over it is refused and the message tells you the number.
Saving your tags replaces everything you had before rather than adding to it. If you open the tag screen, pick one more and save, you must still have the earlier ones selected — the screen shows your current choices for exactly this reason. Changing your mind mid-event is expected and costs nothing.
Finding people
Four views of the room, and the first is the one to live in.
| Filter | Shows | Use when |
|---|---|---|
| All Matches | Everyone with any connection to your tags, complementary first | Always, unless you have a reason not to |
| Complementary | Counterparts only | You are at the event to do one specific thing |
| Aligned | People who chose the same tags as you | Looking for peers rather than counterparts |
| Everyone | The whole room, unranked | Small events, or looking for somebody by name |
Connecting, and what happens afterwards
Sending a request runs a quick check before the button becomes available, so you find out immediately rather than after sending. There is also a ceiling on how many requests you may have outstanding at once, which keeps the room from filling with unanswered invitations.
When somebody accepts, the result is not an event-only contact that expires. It becomes an ordinary Connection, marked private, sitting in your connections list alongside every other. It survives the event ending, and everything that applies to a normal Connection — what each side can see, messaging, ending it — applies to this one.
Where the organizer has enabled it, the event also has a group chat. It appears only when they have turned it on, so its absence is a setting rather than a fault.
Symptoms, causes and fixes
| Symptom | Cause | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| “Not checked in to this event” when saving tags | No attendee record yet | Check in first |
| “Check-in is not open yet” | The organizer has not enabled it | Ask them. There is no way round it |
| Tags I expected are missing | The event’s category does not offer that pool | Nothing to fix. It is deliberate for that kind of event |
| Saving lost tags I already had | Saving replaces the whole selection | Re-select everything you want, then save |
| Fewer tags saved than I picked | Some were not available for this event | The response lists what was accepted. Re-pick from the palette shown |
| Nobody appears under matches | Too few tags, or few others have tagged themselves yet | Add a couple more; try Everyone early in an event |
| Only people exactly like me appear | You tagged what you are seeking, not what you are | Re-tag as yourself |
| No event chat | The organizer did not enable it | Ask them to |
| “You have reached the maximum pending connections for this event” | Too many of your requests are still unanswered | Wait for replies |
Things people commonly get wrong
Related reading: Creating an event, Events in the App, Types of connection, and Consent and what each side can see.