GroupSpot provides the tools and the space to create a digital home for all of the groups in your life. Whether it's a network of friends and family, a municipal sports league, a local book club, or a Home & School Association, we've got you covered.
Hey now. Co-founder of GroupSpot here. I’d love to hear what you think.
We set out to create a platform that solves your group communication needs, regardless of the nature of your group. Which means we've built an awful lot of functionality and flexibility in there. The slides above do a solid job of conveying that, our website does so more comprehensively, but really, you kind of have to dig in and see for yourself.
Philosophically, we’re not interested in being yet another broadcast platform. While we do allow you to create a searchable, public group if you want, our primary focus is narrowcasting for groups that exist in the real world. And because of that, you can’t follow, or even find, an individual outside the scope of a group. We’ve always believed that to be the root cause of the toxicity in today’s social media.
Privacy is a foundational ethos for us, and we consider spyware to be a blight on society. We’ll never track you, mine your data, or sell ads. But that of course means we need to generate revenue by some other means. So we’ll be implementing a freemium model in 2021. The details aren’t set in stone, but it’ll be a nominal fee (i.e., $1 per month) for crossing some threshold like > 3 groups, accessing some yet-to-be-built premium feature, or allowing for group sponsors. Consumers are getting wise to the fact that nothing is “free”.
Hopefully, you’re a fan of what we’re trying to do, but even if not, please don’t hesitate to hit us with feedback. We’re always looking to improve.
This looks like a ton of features that you built out. I'm wondering that as a small start up how are you manage to go so broad, And if there are one or two things that are completely unique to your product? There is a lot of competition for group chat.
@dcsan Thanks for checking us out. I'd say our uniqueness doesn't so much come from a single feature that's totally novel, but rather the sum of the parts. To pick just two examples, take sports teams and your family. You really can manage an entire sports program with it, while at the same time it's a great platform to share pics and discussions with your immediate family. You would never use TeamSnap for your family's baby photos or Instagram for your kid's soccer schedule and player availability.
As to the competition in the group chat space, I agree. We view chat as simply another feature. Chat by itself is crowded. Chat, along with asynchronous posts and comments, along with every other feature we offer, is not.
My triathlon team has been using GroupSpot for a few months. It’s been a great addition to our community and has been tremendously helpful at keeping everyone motivated and engaged throughout COVID-19. The owner is extremely responsive and adapted many things to suit our needs! Highly recommended
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