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Friend Theory - Connect with your friends' friends

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Friend Theory is a map-based app that connects you to your friends of friends and your community buddies network so you can always find and connect with a trustworthy connection anywhere in the world.

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Met the founders living in Hong Kong and have been so inspired by their purpose, intentions, travels, and love for PEOPLE ... I begged them for a job this year. Using tech to bring people together in a meaningful way is legendary... our world needs more of this!
Great idea! I would say that the best part of it is that you connect with locals in a way you'll never do staying with Airbnb or in a hotel.
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Hope you guys like the app! We are working hard everyday to make travelling more fun, accessible and sustainable 🙌
really innovative product making real use of the network effect! Been a big fan for a while, amazing brand as well as really intuitive tech.
Maker
Thanks for the feedback Fred!
Super super super passionate that a private home sharing app can help the world's empathy and loneliness challenges. Curious how you plan to monetize this to make it sustainable?
Maker
Hey Drew! Good to hear we are on the same mission! We initially focused on private home exchange but saw a lot of value in different verticals such as local travel tips or meetups! We have some plans to monetize it in the future to make it sustainable, however right now we are focusing on growing the network so people get a lot more value out of it!
Unless you're playing the "raise massive amounts of cash game" or "We're going to be a non profit game," I would urge you not to wait to monetize... I've seen far too many similar approaches fall by the wayside (myself/Horizon included) because they ran out of energy hoping the long term network effects would happen (without a way to sustain themselves in the meantime).
Really interesting, but can I see all my friends & connections when I visit a place, or do they have to sign up? More interested in catching up with everyone, not going to ask to crash on their bed.
Maker
Hey James! As of now, your friends and friends of friends need to be signed up in order to see them. This is to make sure everyone we build a strong and engaged community from the start.
Cool! Makes sense if your users are looking for beds. Thanks for the reply!
Super cool! I heard about you already from a friend in Madrid - great thing, good luck on your journey!
Maker
Awesome!! Glad to see word of mouth is spreading 🔥
Good feeling! :-) Good luck with everything
Great idea!

I think the best part is that you can connect with your friend's network, so you can rely on that relationship and the experience with that person will be better. Communities are awesome, they let you connect to people that it's difficult in other way.

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You can connect with people around the world, using your or your friends network, which is awesome, secure. Communities are a plus!

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It can be improved if we all spread the voice and the map will be full of new connections!

Great idea!
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