Hi everyone,
HUB is built with privacy at the heart and therefore based on unique domain that you create. Invite friends, family and colleagues.
You may ask who is HUB for?
Anyone who cares about privacy and wants to interact privately.
HUB is:
- Ad free: Interact without noise and distractions.
- Spam free: Connect and share with people you know and care about.
- Troll free: Broadcast safely without abuse and or bullying.
Some of the key features are:
- Unique domain for your network
- Broadcast updates and share media
- Seek and share opinions via polls
- Privacy at every level
- Dynamic access control
HUB is now available to download on App Store.
Great looking product! Private social networks seem to be on the rise and somebody is going to break through. What's the pricing / monetization strategy here? Subscription?
Hi @evomoore. Great question. We’re looking at a couple of ways to monetize but haven’t finalized anything just yet. There are a couple of ways to look at pricing from our perspective:
1. Direct monetization:
- You either pay a fee per domain for large group of users.
- Or pay per user for a domain with smaller number of users.
2. Shared monetization:
- For certain types of domains where you can get some value from the owner of that domain through premium content for example a management guru/celebrity/yoga teacher has a unique domain to share his/her knowledge with the followers, they can charge a fee to allow access to that domain/content. So users pay to join/access and we share the revenue with them. Users get value through access as well as content.
As mentioned above we are looking at these ideas among others to monetize and preserve the promise of ad/spam free environment. Would love to hear other ideas!
It's so unique concept! I didn't download it yet, but may try soon. So is it a specific domain based access, not via the permission based access? Basically, anyone who knows the unique domain can access the private network?
Hi @andrew_cho. Great question. So every domain is unique and you can sign up to a certain domain but won’t be able to actually sign in unless you are activated by the domain admin. We also built in something called segments wherein you can group users within a domain and you can only see/share content within that segment.
Privacy and private interactions are at the heart of HUB. We don’t believe that being able to know the domain name you should be able to access it, then it wouldn’t really be private. Hope that answers your question.
I am trying it now. Looks good. Just one thing that bothered me. During the multi-step signup process, I was forced to click the "next" button on top of the screen while most apps allow you to do it with the return key on your keyboard. No big deal but details make perfection.
Really interested to hear your pricing strategy. I think it would work best if one person paid and that granted access to their whole family.
For example I’d happily pay for this to allow my extended family to use it.
If you need to pay per person I can’t see it working.
@mickc79 pricing models are tricky here especially if you are taking a generic approach (per user or per domain). We are looking at multiple ways as mentioned above. Would love to hear about more ways to monetize.
Hi @ahmetkara. When your pre-ordered app (HUB) becomes available (May 1 in this case), you receive an email. If you turned on automatic downloads, the item automatically downloads to the device that you used to pre-order it.
If you don't see a pre-ordered item on your device after it's released, find the item in your purchases and download it. You can also find it in the App Store and tap or click Get.
@m_stole Great question. As HUB is domain based each domain is secured on server side separately so in case of any malicious attack we are not putting the whole set of domains at risk. Besides each domain has a secure key to access any data. Then at domain level we have security rules in place particularly for media which gets stored on the cloud. Media is stored separately with secure encrypted domain key. Also we are end to end closed so no API access to external parties (at least not yet). Having said that there is still a lot more we can do which is something we are dedicating 30% resources as we move forward. Hope that answers the question.
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