Hi Product Hunt 👋 I built Hromada because I got tired of losing things in group chats. I live in a village outside Kyiv. Like most people here, I'm in about seven chat groups about the place I live: one for the village, one for the housing estate, one for parents, one that's just a marketplace, one I've forgotten the purpose of. Last month three separate chats asked the same question — does anyone know a decent electrician — and nobody found one. The answer existed. It was just buried under 200 messages a day. That's the problem. Local information is real and useful, but it lives in a format that destroys it. Chats have no search, no structure, no reviews, and no sense of distance. A post about a lost dog goes to 900 people, 890 of whom live too far away to ever see that dog. So Hromada is a feed instead of a chat. **How it works** Posts are ranked by three things: distance from you, freshness, and activity. Closest and newest first. Categories are the ones people actually need — lost & found, help, giveaway/sale, services, events, safety, polls, questions to neighbors, real estate. The part I care most about is **services with reviews**. In a village, finding a plumber means asking around and hoping. Here you see who your actual neighbors hired and what they said afterwards. That's a review system where the reviewers live 200 meters away and can't be fake. Phone numbers are hidden behind a button by default, so bots can't scrape them. **Where it's at** Honestly: very early. It works, it's free, there are no ads, and there is no business model yet — I've been building it in the evenings. I'm launching the way hyperlocal products have to launch: one village at a time. Nextdoor did this too. A neighborhood feed with three users is worthless, so national traffic actively hurts — 1000 people scattered across 200 towns all see an empty feed and never come back. Right now I'm getting my own village to critical mass by literally printing A4 posters and sticking them on the shop door. Not glamorous. It's what works. **What I'd love your input on** 1. The cold-start problem. How would you bootstrap density in a place where you can't buy ads and the total addressable population is a few thousand people? 2. Moderation at village scale. Online conflicts here become real-life conflicts — everyone knows everyone. Reactive reporting feels insufficient. What has worked for you? 3. Does a separate product ever beat the inertia of an existing group chat? This is my biggest doubt and I'd rather hear it straight. Happy to answer anything. Roast it — that's more useful to me than upvotes. 🇺🇦 Built in Ukraine.

Громада

The neighborhood feed for your street, not your city

The neighborhood feed for your street, not your city