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Islands — Slack for College 🌴
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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@rrhoover +1 awesome article from @kerrymflynn 💯👌
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: “Severely stoked to be back at college” 😂)
2) Created an entire clothing line around Islands 🌴 (designed by Skrillex's fashion brand Owsl)
It's impossible to understand what this is from the landing page. Why not include some kind of about page?
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.
@andrewdavidj all you have to do is look at the branding of each. Islands will be way more intriguing to your average college student
@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 ☺️
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?
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.
Great to see my 'islands' (Isle of Man) .im domain TLD put to good use! Any plans for the UK? @gregisenberg @findyourislands
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!
I am curious about the rollout, because I am at a university, and it is not available here.
I was able to try Islands several months ago and it was a really cool experience 👍 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 🙏
I also like the fact that @gregisenberg went back to college for Islands 👏
Congrats @gregisenberg on the launch on PH - great product that will see fast adoption even in Europe.
Congratulations, mate! Its been great to see Islands evolve since we first met ++
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.
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.
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