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Ryan Hoover
Islands β€” Slack for College 🌴
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Islands connects you with people, places and communities you care about at your college. Finding your people is a core, primal need and unlocks human potential.

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Ryan Hoover
Greg's been quiet about Islands in the tech community until recently. For the past ~year he's been traveling to universities around the country, hanging out on college campuses to learn from and intro the app to his target demo (more in @kerrymflynn's Mashable piece). What's been the biggest surprise or most interesting learning during this time, @gregisenberg?
Niv Dror
@rrhoover +1 awesome article from @kerrymflynn πŸ’―πŸ‘Œ Makes so much sense living on a college campus for a ~year when building something like this. From a community standpoint – I personally believe you cannot spend "too much" money on shirts/stickers things like that, especially in the early days, when building your community, promoting the brand, and rewarding early users of the platform (and making them feel like part of the team). So, I love that @gregisenberg took this to the next level and... 1) Actually went back to college to see what the user need is (Image caption: β€œSeverely stoked to be back at college” πŸ˜‚) 2) Created an entire clothing line around Islands 🌴 (designed by Skrillex's fashion brand Owsl)
Pawel Janiak
It's impossible to understand what this is from the landing page. Why not include some kind of about page?
Greg Isenberg
The people who know, know (at the campuses we're at)
Michael
Isn't this similar to how a current gargantuan tech company originally positioned themselves? Hmm what were they called again?
Andrew-David
Why? Hey, here's an idea: You need a "Slack for X?" Easy! All you have to do is make an actual Slack account and then use it for X.
Stephen
@andrewdavidj all you have to do is look at the branding of each. Islands will be way more intriguing to your average college student
caleb
@andrewdavidj One of my professors once suggested our class use Slack, needles to say the class stuck to a lame WhatsApp group. If there were any option more targeted for students that would be amazing and hopefully start ridding my phone of pointless WhatsApp groups ☺️
Tristan Pollock
IT'S FINALLY HERE!
Erik Torenberg
Congrats on the launch, sir! You and team have been crafting, tinkering, perfecting for a while. How do you know when a product is ready to launch? From your tests, what KPIs were you most focused on?
Satoru Steve Naito
Great concept!
Jeremy Zykorie
Used to be a fan of 5by. Not really so sure about Islands... But watching Greg in this video: https://cheddar.com/videos/islan... the use case becomes a bit clearer, he's obviously put the time in on campus... I get it.
Jevon
Nice to see the launch @gregisenberg !
Greg Isenberg
Thanks Jevon! Love to catch up sometime!
Nick Horsthuis
Great to see my 'islands' (Isle of Man) .im domain TLD put to good use! Any plans for the UK? @gregisenberg @findyourislands
Greg Isenberg
We love the UK! We've had a bunch of UK universities reach out to us (Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, Essex) and are looking into it!
David Kampmann
I am curious about the rollout, because I am at a university, and it is not available here.
Philippe Gauvin
Go Greg! You're doing it right, once again.
Jordan Sztern
Great stuff. No doubt this will be a huge success
Greg Isenberg
Merci
Ben Syne
Stoked to see Islands in the wild. I have been looking for a way out of instagram/facebook with have kind of become big brother these days. Does Island have ambitions to dethrone those monoliths?
Anne Gherini
Congrats Greg! Great concept. Slack for College Campuses.
Greg Isenberg
TYSM!
Anne Gherini
@gregisenberg I'll get you wrapped into an Inc or HuffPo article.
Greg Isenberg
Wow, thank you! LMK what you need from me
Alexandre Mouriec
I was able to try Islands several months ago and it was a really cool experience πŸ‘ Even if it was not on my campus, I saw the potential of using it on my campus and I hope it will be live in France one day πŸ™ I also like the fact that @gregisenberg went back to college for Islands πŸ‘
Aziz Morsly
Congrats @gregisenberg on the launch on PH - great product that will see fast adoption even in Europe.
Alexander Singh
Congratulations, mate! Its been great to see Islands evolve since we first met ++
#1 Mobile Specialist
Great idea! Just think its funny how many apps focus on "human" as their value prop. Most of these apps are the opposite of that; they make us live in virtual worlds, hang out in virtual chat rooms. And even if/when we meet in the real world, everyone is too busy looking at their phone to even talk :) But this beyond the point. Really love the concept.
Keyul
Congrats Greg on launch. Come across the local startup that has a very similar concept for college students. It would be great to see which one grow faster. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/...