Outverse - Forum and custom space builder, for your community

Hi Product Hunters! 👋 I’m Kyran, cofounder at Outverse, a platform designed for the next generation of online communities. We’re super excited to be sharing more for our launch here today. Massive thanks to the amazing @thisiskp_ for hunting us! 🙏 We built Outverse because we think the experience for internet communities is due a huge upgrade. As a team we’ve been building and participating in these communities for the past two decades — from old-school forums through to Discord and Slack groups. And over the past year, we’ve been speaking to hundreds of community builders. While products like Slack can be great for some use cases, they’re not a natural home for communities. The format of instant, short-form response & lack of overarching thread-based organisation means that discussions are easily lost within the noise. At the same time, more traditional community and forum-style platforms are generally outdated, uninspiring and missing key collaborative features. We’re upgrading the UX to a level you’d expect from a modern community platform. With Outverse, community builders & members will get: 💬 Thoughtfully designed, thread-based forums 🧩 Notion-style custom space builder with multiplayer collaboration features 📺 Video spaces that are easy to set up & all handled natively 🖌️ Customization options to better personalize your community ⚙️ Integrations and embeds (Loom, Figma, Giphy, YouTube & more coming!) And here are some of the things we're currently working on: 🤖 Powerful automations to simplify the community onboarding journey and beyond 🌍 Opening the product up to community-built apps & extensions 🦾 Even more advanced no-code blocks for our custom space builder We’re currently in beta and are onboarding community builders in batches right now. To join, sign up at https://outverse.com and share some more details about yourself. Everyone who completes this form will receive an invitation to join our own Outverse-hosted community! 🪐 We’d love to hear your feedback and thoughts 🙏

Outverse is an amazing website. It's a great platform for people to interact with each other and share their ideas, thoughts, etc. They are very active on social media as well. I love how it provides everything you need in one place including forums, custom spaces (pages), blogs, video posting sites like Youtube or Vimeo which can be shared easily via the site interface or through links/embeds from other platforms such as Twitter or Facebook!

Hey all, I was recently introduced to Outverse through one of my Twitter followers. As a community builder, I'm always in the hunt for cutting-edge tools and platforms that reimagine the experience of bringing people together online. After checking out Outverse and getting to know the founders' vision, I am beyond thrilled to introduce it to the larger PH community today! 🎉 In short, Outverse is a community platform that's easier to use, better organized and designed for real interaction. It is a perfect amalgamation of the best parts of Internet forums (elegant threading) and Notion-style custom spaces blended together. I was blown away by the UX and the seamless design even at this early version. My favorite feature is the "Video spaces" which allows you to integrate hassle-free live video spaces and events, within your Outverse community. No external video tools needed. Outverse is a leapfrog attempt at what a modern community platform would look like in 2022. I am planning to explore the tool a lot further this year, I hope you'll check it out and see if it makes sense for your community. The Outverse team is here all day to answer any questions you may have, so don't be shy :)

Congratulations on the launch, would like to check out for sure!

Congrats to the team! I've been following since almost day one what Kyran and the whole team is building and really thrilled to see what they're gonna continue to ship, onwards!

Congrats on the launch! Notion + Slack + Discord! UX looks slick!

This looks totally awesome 🤯 I'm constantly on the lookout for community building platforms that have more flexibility without getting overly complicated to use and Outverse seems to have struck a fine balance here. I'm looking forward to being onboarded in the future and trying it out with 2+ communities I'm designing out at the moment. Oh, and having an "open" mindset whereby integrations / APIs are going to be in place is 100% the way to go with this tool. NoCoders everywhere: can we finally build the community based space of our dreams?

Congrats on the Launch. Looks really amazing!

Thought I would add my own 2 cents on why I'm excited to be launching Outverse today with the team! I've spent the last several years building and running my own community of designers, and when I launched it in 2016 using a social platforms group function. I've seen amazing growth and had a great time - but at the end of the day, I know that my community will stay there - I have no ownership, I have no portability and I am only able to offer them the experience/features that are handed to me. Knowing what I know now several years on, this is what I value: Ownership - I want to be able to own my community, I should not have to worry about losing that on a whim. Customizable - I want to make my community look, feel and work the way I want, whether I am technical or not. Sustainable - Anyone who's participated or ran communities using chat apps knows it's chaos at a large scale - we can't expect meaningful discussion to happen that way forever - we need optionality not compromise, because every community is different. These things are always on my mind as I help build Outverse, I can't wait to help enable others to build meaningful community on the internet.

Congrats on the launch! Looks nice

super excited for this! Having a solution for communities to have everything in one space will lower the barrier of people coming together, exchaning and collaborating on all sorts of things - can’t wait to see where this goes!

Hey Product Hunt 👋🏽, Ollie here, cofounder at Outverse. We’re super excited to be levelling up the product experience for both community members and builders. Community platforms and tools are lagging behind in terms of the powerful, responsive, collaborative software we’ve seen emerge over the past 5 years. We’re changing that at Outverse. We’re currently in open access for community members and rolling out beta access for community builders on Outverse. We’ll be providing priority builder access to the Product Hunt community! By completing the form on our website – we’ll get you up and running with builder access as soon as possible 🦾 You’ll also get an immediate invite into our own Outverse community, where you can get your hands on the product! 🦄 We’re building with the product and community experience at the forefront of everything we do – so we’re super keen to get your feedback and requests as we evolve Outverse. 🙏🏽 Thanks to the legend @thisiskp_ for hunting us! Look forward to welcoming you to the Outverse community 🪐✨

Congrats for the launch @kyranschmidt @ollie_steadman @jeylani_jeylani & team! Outverse looks great and I love the multiplayer collaboration features and the integration first approach. :)

Can't wait to try this out - it looks like a bit step up from other hacky ways to build online communities.

This is awesome! Can’t wait to see what’s next for you guys 🚀

I´ve been following this project for a while. We are planning to move our community of privacy professionals from Slack to Outverse later this year. Solves a real need for community builders.

Wow! This looks like a great combination of Slack and Discord and the best of both worlds. Looking forward to using it soon! Congratulations on the launch! 🎉

Epic stuff, love the modularity of it 🧱💪

"Notion-style custom spaces, video and more"...you know how to spark my attention 🤩 Also the product itself couldn't be more timely - exciting! Looking forward to diving into it 🔥

Outverse is soo cool! I love the threading feature in forms. It saves so much time when retrieving data. Also, how do you plan to handle events, calendar invites, etc?