Milo

Shake to instantly meet community members near you

2 followers

Shake to instantly meet community members near you

2 followers

Visit website

Social Networking

•

Community management

It's always a great experience meeting a fellow hunter IRL. But it doesn't happen very often and we have to wait for meetups to be organized in our cities. So we decided to build something that makes it super easy to meet hunters near you for spontaneous meetups. Caution : Onboarding process is a little long for a reason. Please don't give up🙈

Launch tags:Social Media•Meetings•Product Hunt

Launch Team

Render: Get up to $100K in startup creditsThe fastest way to launch and scale your startup in the cloud

Promoted

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.

Report

8yr ago

Milo

Maker

@avneesh83752241 thanks for trying Milo. Milo is a closed community platform, accessible only to the members of the community. Communities are either location based or distributed. Location coordinates are used only in the case of distributed communities. Since precise location is never shared, this has never been raised as a concern so far. Also, early usage patterns indicate that users are generally very comfortable sharing profile information with others in the community.

Report

8yr ago

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.

Report

8yr ago

Milo

Maker

I am total with you on that @thomasleiterman ! We will correct the errors you pointed out in the very next update. The onboarding is long but it was a conscious call. We have been big fans of www.useronboarding.com and have been watching his teardowns for a few years now. We have incorporated a lot of it in our open community version, Glynk, which has a super fast sign up experience (with skip option) as every additional step in onboarding leads to more than 10% drop. User behavior and initial feedback suggest that people are quite comfortable giving this information in closed communities (5000 users over 10 communities and we have seen <1% drop). Having said this, we will definitely take another look at onboarding :) I will reach out to you once we have the changes ready. Thank you so much for taking the time to send in such detailed feedback.

Report

8yr ago

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

Report

8yr ago

@kumar_anchal Thanks @mohan_gupta . We are currently LIVE in 3 Gated communities, 5 Colleges, 1 Business park and 2 Distributed communities (like Product Hunt) Milo would be useful in connecting people in any closed community that has implicit trust factor established.

Report

8yr ago

I don't know what their plan is in the long run but it's definitely a platform which has the capability to replace existing WhatsApp/Facebook groups within closed communities. The idea is really simple to take us back to the good old times of group chats who have common things to talk about.

Pros:

A must try for the PH members, it has the potential of enabling connections irl amongst hunters which wouldn't have happened otherwise.

Cons:

Not being able to create groups. Hopefully the team can do that in the near future.

Report

8yr ago

Facebook started with the community concept and then devolved into an open community. This app does a beautiful job of exploring communities with awesome UX. The first and foremost step of interaction is creating a trust boundary which comes automatically with communities based on shared identities like 'employees of company X'. It also trains people well on how to interact..(shake gesture). The tough problem to solve would be how to make habit forming. If it does, it will open the potential of true social networking online+ offline.

Report

8yr ago

Milo

Maker

@raj1977 Well put! With our open community version, we have tried building trust, through peer ratings and reviews. But we noticed that people do not want to be rated as individuals. It's a different story as businesses. That's when we decided to piggyback on communities where there is higher level of trust already.

Report

8yr ago

Love it! Never come across such a nifty app in a while. Not many users yet but I can see how this can change the way people interact on online platforms today. All the best guys! Please do reach out to me in case you need any help with marketing the app.🙏

Report

8yr ago

Milo

Maker

@_chip_munk Thanks Mark :) We'll definitely reach out!

Report

8yr ago

Waaaay too much info needed (without the option to skip) just to get in. I ended up on Home town screen. Sorry. 🤷‍♂️

Report

8yr ago

Milo

Maker

I am with you on that @petr_sulc 🙄! I know it's a little painful. Just to give you a little context, our open community version of the platform, Glynk, has a super fast sign up experience (with skip option) as every additional step in onboarding leads to more than 10% drop. However, we have deliberately kept the onboarding elaborate as it builds a comprehensive experience as soon as the user joins. User behavior and initial feedback suggests that people are quite comfortable giving this information (5000 users over 10 communities and we have seen <1% drop) Can you give it another shot, Petr? It's just 2 more steps🙈 Would love to hear your feedback!

Report

8yr ago

1 2 3

Reviews