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

Thank you for hunting us @benln! 👊🏼🙏🏼 Excited to hear some feedback from fellow makers! Specifically, I'd love to hear any crazy feature ideas you'd love to have on a group communication app that other generic / enterprise group apps haven't delivered! ⚡️

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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

@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