Nido

Slack for college students

3 followers

Slack for college students

3 followers

Nido is the Slack for Gen Z - a group communication app where group members can communicate with each other and with other similar groups from around the world.

Launch tags:Android•iOS•Slack

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Nido

Maker

Hey Product Hunt it’s Carlos here, one of the founders of Nido! Thanks @benln for hunting us 🎯 I’ll be here all day to answer any questions you might have and gather feedback from as much of you as possible but in the meantime let me jump in and explain why we started Nido and how it works: Nido is the Slack for Gen Z and our goal is to connect the GenZ through global communities. We aim to do this through our mobile app, a group communication tool where group members can communicate with each other and with other similar groups from around the world. Our feed is custom-made to accommodate the needs and desires of university clubs, by using channels and threads you can say goodbye to messy group chats and privacy intruding Facebook groups once and for all! We are taking the concept of slack but adding fun features such as meetups, polls and video threads to be used for casual communication, where our aim is to appeal to a younger audience. On top of that, university clubs can connect with similar clubs from different schools around the world, so they can gain access to a global network of like minded to meetup and share ideas. We are currently in beta, testing the app out with various schools in the US, UK and Australia. I’d love to hear what the Product Hunt community thinks of this and if anyone is interested in joining the team, we are currently hiring, so checkout our Angel List profile 😁 Cheers! Carlos

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6yr ago

Hi @benln @carloscosta! I really loved the idea and it definitely fills a huge gap that exist in this industry! Really looking forward to it's application, branding is dope! Also, would love to feature it on my Instagram handle and business Podcast, which will expose it to masses here in India. Looking forward to your reply!

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6yr ago

Nido

Maker

Hey @porush_puri glad you like it and we'd be glad for you to share it!

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6yr ago

Been following Nido since they were called Friend Theory (love the rebrand btw). Awesome product. I'm a big traveller myself and Nido is a fantastic way to drop into communities across the globe. Would highly recommend giving it a try. As a product its super slick they've done a fantastic job with UX/UI. The team's marketing is also next level good - makes you want to ditch your office job and hit the road and not turn back!

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6yr ago

Product Hunt

Giving me Islands vibes! cc @gregisenberg

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6yr ago

Nido

Maker

@gregisenberg @rrhoover someone has to fill the gap 😁

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6yr ago

Luke Bryan

Looks really interesting. Will you/do you allow advertising on the platform?

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6yr ago

Nido

Maker

@benjidisciple we are focusing on building out the product at the moment so we don't have or allow ads on the platform. It's also not initially our future plans as we want to move towards monetizing the platform through an ecommerce model that users are asking for rather than ads.

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6yr ago

Luke Bryan

@carloscosta sounds like a very sensible approach. Most users are tired of adverts on social media now and want something different. We're building a similar thing at Disciple but based on a subscription service and aimed at businesses and brand communities. We currently make native apps for the communities that we work with but we're releasing our web version soon if you want to check it out here: https://www.producthunt.com/upco... Would love to hear your feedback/thoughts

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6yr ago

Nido

Maker

@benjidisciple we also thought of subscription based services but since we are not targeting businesses and focusing on a younger demographic we thought we'd focus on growth first. What I like about Disciple is you can offer a highly tailor made and customisable product for each community which is a huge plus and the ability to potentially monetize it for fan communities sounds interesting. I'd love to hear your thoughts on how you are dealing with making existing communities that are using existing (probably free products) switch over to Disciple, as I would see this as the biggest obstacle.

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6yr ago

Luke Bryan

@carloscosta as you are targeting a younger age group your model makes perfect sense. You are right, most communities that we work with migrate from Facebook onto our platform and some prospects do hesitate at moving from a free platform onto ours. We generally focus on the monetisation potential - consider it an investment. They'll be able to make money on our platform and make a profit - something they weren't able to do on Facebook etc. Many customers are also looking for brand loyalty and engagement with their customers and so are not put off by paying for a platform to achieve this. This is also why we've created the web-version of our product to help people migrate onto our platform. It will be cheaper than the apps and will begin with a free trial to help show users the worth of having their own place to host their community rather than hosting it on free platforms.

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6yr ago

Will this be the new GroupMe?

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6yr ago

Nido

Maker

@sam_rojas who knows? but its about time an fun alternative to GroupMe comes out for GenZ 😜

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6yr ago

@carloscosta True!!

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6yr ago

Nido

Maker

Hi all! Guillaume (aka Guili) here, I've been leading the product team building Nido from the very beginning 🤓 Glad to see our cool little app was hunted !! Send out any tech-related questions you may have in my direction, I'll be happy to answer! Have a great day! ✌🏻 Guillaume

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6yr ago

@guillaume_prevost How long did the entire development take?

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6yr ago

Nido

Maker

@paramvir_gill we've been working together as a team for 2 years now, but we've only been building Nido for 3-4 months (since October), re-using parts of our previous project.

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6yr ago

@paramvir_gill @guillaume_prevost What was your previous project?

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6yr ago

Nido

Maker

@paramvir_gill @adam_jarvis it was Friend Theory, a social travel website and app that helped finding your friends and friends of friends when travelling, to have a better travel experience with like-minded people and a trusted connection anywhere in the world.

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6yr ago

@carloscosta what's the pricing model on this? I don't see anything about it on your website

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6yr ago

Nido

Maker

Hey @adam_jarvis , our app is completely free and users don't have to pay any subscription fee. We will implement a social e-commerce model, where users will get access to deals on products and experiences sold in the app. What we are currently seeing from college clubs is that they actively try to reach brands to get deals and discounts for their club members, however it's a process that has a lot of friction and due to small numbers, they struggle to get good deals. Once we have global communities of similar clubs, we will allow for the brands and services that clubs are trying to reach to sell their products directly on the app and we will charge a commission on sales.

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6yr ago

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