Ramnath Shenoy

Milo - Shake to instantly meet community members near you

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It's always a great experience meeting a fellow hunter IRL. But it doesn't happen very often and we have to wait for meetups to be organized in our cities. So we decided to build something that makes it super easy to meet hunters near you for spontaneous meetups.

Caution : Onboarding process is a little long for a reason. Please don't give up🙈

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Jaydev Ajit Kumar

Milo has perfected the experience of connecting you with others in your community. I dislike going to the gym alone, but i can see how Milo can help me create my own crew on the fly. Looking forward to see Milo's evolution.

Pros:

- Clean UI

- Find people and communities around you

- Shake to meet is as simple as it gets

Cons:

- Network effect challenges for a new social app

Raj Singh
Facebook started with the community concept and then devolved into an open community. This app does a beautiful job of exploring communities with awesome UX. The first and foremost step of interaction is creating a trust boundary which comes automatically with communities based on shared identities like 'employees of company X'. It also trains people well on how to interact..(shake gesture). The tough problem to solve would be how to make habit forming. If it does, it will open the potential of true social networking online+ offline.
Ramnath Shenoy
@raj1977 Well put! With our open community version, we have tried building trust, through peer ratings and reviews. But we noticed that people do not want to be rated as individuals. It's a different story as businesses. That's when we decided to piggyback on communities where there is higher level of trust already.
tatvamasi

Closed group concept looking promising. Categories look broad at the moment. Conversations look more engaging when interests are more refined. Hope this happens over time with more ppl in app.

WIshing Milo very best.

Pros:

#1 Purposeful conversations.

#2 Trust

Cons:

#1 lengthy on boardig

Prabhakar Thota
Invite code please
Ramnath Shenoy
@myinnos PRODUCTHUNT
Akash Gupta
Attention to detail in this app is just stunning. Great job 👍 Any chance I can connect with people are interested specific skills?
Ramnath Shenoy
@akashgupta112 Thanks! You can filter people from the Discover tab based on interests. We are looking to add skills as well as give people a way to share those skills, for goodwill or money. Stay tuned!
Niranjan
Love it! Never come across such a nifty app in a while. Not many users yet but I can see how this can change the way people interact on online platforms today. All the best guys! Please do reach out to me in case you need any help with marketing the app.🙏
Ramnath Shenoy
@_chip_munk Thanks Mark :) We'll definitely reach out!
Arjun
Like the concept. A quick idea, can you pull the data from LinkedIn or Angel? That way I don't have to go through the onboarding process. Shake thing is pretty cool though.
Ramnath Shenoy
@niranjan_s That's something we flirted with in the beginning. We skipped it for this version only because of come technical constraints. A Product Hunt login was something we were looking to add. If the PH community size grows on Milo, we will definitely prioritise it over other features.
Ige Jen Iyiola
i downloaded that app but i need a memeber to invite me to access into the site ..please help me
Petr Šulc
Waaaay too much info needed (without the option to skip) just to get in. I ended up on Home town screen. Sorry. 🤷‍♂️
Ramnath Shenoy
I am with you on that @petr_sulc 🙄! I know it's a little painful. Just to give you a little context, our open community version of the platform, Glynk, has a super fast sign up experience (with skip option) as every additional step in onboarding leads to more than 10% drop. However, we have deliberately kept the onboarding elaborate as it builds a comprehensive experience as soon as the user joins. User behavior and initial feedback suggests that people are quite comfortable giving this information (5000 users over 10 communities and we have seen <1% drop) Can you give it another shot, Petr? It's just 2 more steps🙈 Would love to hear your feedback!
Piyush Mayank
Is the product hunt community on Milo App still active?
Ige Jen Iyiola
downloaded, but I need an invite to access.