Milo

More than 2 years ago, we launched 'Glynk', a platform to connect like-minded people across the globe. Though it has great levels of engagement, most users (especially women) have often complained of discomfort in meeting total strangers on an app and they eventually leave. This despite putting strict privacy and authenticity measures in place. As we dug deeper and spoke to our users, most of them pointed at the lack of trust. After much thought and interaction with our users, we figured that closed communities had a characteristic of implicit trust but people remained quite disconnected. That's how Milo happened - an app to bring members in closed communities, closer. Disclaimer (🙈): We have a deliberately long onboarding process that is used to create an experience based on the commonalities. Features: 👑Rich member directory with filters that will help you look for community members by hometown, college, workplace in addition to interests. 👋Automatically created group chats based on your profile info. 👌Spontaneous meetups: Got some free time? 🧐Shake your phone📱 Meet a community member😻 I've created a community for the Product Hunt community. Please try the app and give your valuable feedback. I will be around the whole day to answer your questions. Use community code: PRODUCTHUNT

There is definitely a need for such a product in the market and if it reaches the right audiences, I have a feeling it will do extremely well especially for people like me who do not like planned meetups. Good luck! I will be following the product closely and hopefully get a chance to meet some of you guys soon.

Pros:

Love the shake and meet feature and meeting people whenever you are free.

Cons:

On-boarding is too long but eventually it makes sense when you see automatic groups are created basis the information.

Ooooo, this is fun. Curious to see how people use this and if you meet a fellow Product Hunt community member IRL through this app, send pics! 😃

Interesting concept, but I stopped during onboarding for a number of reasons: - Requiring notifications on start-up: 🚫 🙈 - Facebook powered verification: don't want to have to give my phone number to fb - Lots of personal details without any idea about the value thats in it for me (not the information, but the whole app in general) - Veryy eery wording on the gender question 🙊 (and only two options - we're don't live in the 1800s anymore! - Even though I joined the PH community, the interests shown seem to be all those available, I'd at least expected to have interests matching to those of the PH community up top (and not having to scroll through "beachvolleyball" and the likes) Stopped right there and deleted the app... Willing to try again, if onboarding is fixed - I'd suggest taking a long deep look at www.useronboarding.com (or hiring Samuel directly). The idea seems nice though and the pivot to have a "community home" for an existing online community makes sense to me and is appealing for the PH community IMO.

Well crafted product. Hopefully network effect catches up! Not sure how many people will be okay to share their location publicly to chat/talk in real time personally. Only application which has overcome this problem is tinder, but then reason behind that is a strong one too.

This looks very clean @kumar_anchal ...would love to understand what all uses cases can this enable...

I liked the idea and the product looks clean and works really well. There are two things I was wondering about though. First, the list of activities is limited, I might want to do something completely different than one of these so maybe an option to customize or add activities can work better? Also, the groups that were created were really good but is there a way for me to add my own network to one of them or a way for me to create a personal group?