Heartstring is a fresh take on social messaging. Discover what people want to talk about around you or worldwide. Easily stay connected, engaged and informed with your communities and the world.
Your idea is brilliant. The best part is localized short communication. However, getting active and engaging users is always difficult and generally turns new social network apps to failure. What's your plan? Congratulations on the launch!
@naveed_rehman I have never heard brilliant before 😅 you are absolutely right, getting the ball rolling is brutally difficult the first year. The main plan is to initially have it being used by students & expats in dense urban areas. I am also going to be partnering with music and business events. Any suggestions are very welcome though!
Hello Product Hunt 👋I’m Diederik and the creator of Heartstring.
Heartstring is a fresh take on messaging by creating a more open ecosystem for you to quickly connect and exchange thoughts with people nearby or worldwide. The app went live a couple of weeks ago! 🎉 You can get it here: https://www.heartstring.app
Today, I’m here to share it with you and the PH community.
I started Heartstring because I was frustrated by the limitations of existing messaging apps when it came to connecting and exchanging thoughts with others quickly. I found myself often going through Reddit, FB communities, or Whatsapp groups just to find, and then finally connect, with people who were in my city or had a similar interest. I also often did not know what was happening in my city - and news outlets didn’t do it for me either.
As for most of the existing social apps, I realised no matter what, I’m almost always forced to build a sizeable audience first to get proper engagement. In short, most of the existing alternatives on both the social and messaging side were not what I needed.
For example, what if you want to quickly connect with people in your city? What if you need some local insights on a place on the go? What if you quickly need some advice? What if you want to know what’s happening in your city? Or find people interested in the same things you are? Where do you go? 🤔
In order to solve this, I started building Heartstring after talking to people, with the goal of creating a place where you can quickly find, connect and chat with like-minded people nearby or worldwide. Here are some of the main things Heartstring can help you with:
🌍 Seeing what people want to talk about anywhere in the world.
👏 Connecting with people in your city, event, campus, area etc.
🔭 Finding like-minded people with similar interests more easily.
👌🏾 Creating local or global posts and updates that you control.
💬 Exchanging thoughts & ideas with others in short form chats.
You are invited to try out Heartstring on your phone and give it a go - you can download it for free. In the future, paid and private groups might be added too. But I would love to hear from you. What do you think Heartstring could improve? Feel free to share them.
Overall, I’m excited to share Heartstring with the PH Community and hope to get more input and feedback from you to improve it! Thank you for your support 🙏
This is a very cool looking app. The colors, the layout, I'm loving it. And yes, location based connecting and conversations is something that we all definitely need right this moment. Great work.
@lamidediji happy you like the design. We definitely need an easier way to connect with the people, communities, and places we care about so it's great you are coming along and joining us in this adventure 🚀
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Love the clean design, and the idea of location-based chats makes me excited to explore this further. Looking forward to see this grow! Congratulations w/ the launch! 🎉
I'm gonna try this out! I love apps that connect with short form communication and related interests. I don't always have time to hop on coffee chats with everyone i meet online, but being able to jump in and engage like this looks awesome!
@britt_joiner sooo happy to hear this! My thoughts exactly. It will be really difficult to get it off the ground but I am confident that with enough time as more people join heartstring it will be great - and I'm not in a rush either.
If you have any thoughts on making it better do share them - I am all ears.
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