Reminds me of Jelly which shut down earlier this year, but with a location/city focus. Why don't you think Jelly worked and how will Hubble avoid this same fate, @philipkuklis?
@rrhoover That's a good question! I think Jelly had an outstanding product experience but when it comes to social products, the network is the biggest value (just look at Reddit 👈).
With Hubble, we want to be hyper local & hyper focused. Communities take time. We’re not interested in getting as many people as fast as possible in the app, but to really focus and drive the engagement in a few selected areas.
That’s why our goal on Product Hunt is to connect with people, who would love to start / or bring their own community on Hubble (already have “International Friends SF“ & “Makers SF“ in San Francisco).
Super excited about the journey ahead!
Hey Product Hunters, very excited to be here today. And thank you @gabriel__lewis for posting!
Hubble is a product that Kamil (my older brother) and I originally started back when we were still college students in Europe. The idea came when we were both studying in new cities or abroad and felt the disconnect from our surroundings.
Nowadays everyone’s connected to their friends & family (Facebook), people they’re interested in (Twitter) and their colleagues (LinkedIn), but what about the people in our own city? How do we find out what’s happening nearby or get in touch with others?
That’s why we made a simple Q&A newsletter back in 2016, shared it with a few friends in Lisbon, and quickly realized that we’re not the only ones with this pain.
After months of learning how to code an iOS app, grinding it out in our parents’ basement in Germany, getting accepted into the StartFast accelerator batch ’17 in Upstate New York and working with a few hundred users in several communities from around the world, we’ve seen a lot of use cases for our hyperlocal Q&A app:
- Asking about new places
- Finding like-minded people for a beer (e.g. foreign exchange students)
- Looking for a date after you got ditched by your GF on Valentine’s Day… and finding one 🤔
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask! Also we would love to get your feedback and invite you to give it a try 🙌
@gabriel__lewis@philipkuklis Does it have a profanity filter or some way to filter for abuse? Working on a startup right now that uses machine learning to detect abuse/harassment and would love to chat about implementing our API into your product!
Would love to chat if this is something you're interested in. Shoot me an email at justin at kiteai dot com.
@pottsjustin That's an interesting idea! Right now, the community leaders are filtering abusive content together with us manually. Will def reach out to hear more about your solution ☝️
I know that you're still in the early days, but is an Android app on the roadmap? Great work, and GREAT marketing. Very impressed. Not really useful for where I live (rural area, not great mobile connectivity) but definitely an interesting app. Looking forward to seeing what else you guys cook up!
And come on, personalized thank you messages for PH upvotes? That's how you win at PH. XD
@xtoq Haha all credit goes to @DannyLowney for the idea. We're currently developing the Android beta (ugh such a pain in comparison to iOS 😃). Thank you for your comment!
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