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Shake to instantly meet community members near you
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Ramnath Shenoy
Milo — Shake to instantly meet community members near you
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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🙈

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Ryan Hoover
Ooooo, this is fun. Curious to see how people use this and if you meet a fellow Product Hunt community member IRL through this app, send pics! 😃
Natarajan H K
Maker
Ha ha! Thanks @rrhoover. We would love that too 🙂
Ramnath Shenoy
Maker
More than 2 years ago, we launched 'Glynk', a platform to connect like-minded people across the globe. Though it has great levels of engagement, most users (especially women) have often complained of discomfort in meeting total strangers on an app and they eventually leave. This despite putting strict privacy and authenticity measures in place. As we dug deeper and spoke to our users, most of them pointed at the lack of trust. After much thought and interaction with our users, we figured that closed communities had a characteristic of implicit trust but people remained quite disconnected. That's how Milo happened - an app to bring members in closed communities, closer. Disclaimer (🙈): We have a deliberately long onboarding process that is used to create an experience based on the commonalities. Features: 👑Rich member directory with filters that will help you look for community members by hometown, college, workplace in addition to interests. 👋Automatically created group chats based on your profile info. 👌Spontaneous meetups: Got some free time? 🧐Shake your phone📱 Meet a community member😻 I've created a community for the Product Hunt community. Please try the app and give your valuable feedback. I will be around the whole day to answer your questions. Use community code: PRODUCTHUNT
Ramnath Shenoy
Maker
@brucebolton Hey Bruce! Use the community code: PRODUCTHUNT to join.
Prabhakar Thota
Invite code please
Ramnath Shenoy
Maker
@myinnos PRODUCTHUNT
Thomas Leitermann
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.
Ramnath Shenoy
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.
Petr Šulc
Waaaay too much info needed (without the option to skip) just to get in. I ended up on Home town screen. Sorry. 🤷‍♂️
Ramnath Shenoy
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!
Mohan Gupta
This looks very clean @kumar_anchal ...would love to understand what all uses cases can this enable...
Kumar Anchal
@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.
tatvamasi

Closed group concept looking promising. Categories look broad at the moment. Conversations look more engaging when interests are more refined. Hope this happens over time with more ppl in app.

WIshing Milo very best.

Pros:

#1 Purposeful conversations.

#2 Trust

Cons:

#1 lengthy on boardig

Jaydev Ajit Kumar

Milo has perfected the experience of connecting you with others in your community. I dislike going to the gym alone, but i can see how Milo can help me create my own crew on the fly. Looking forward to see Milo's evolution.

Pros:

- Clean UI

- Find people and communities around you

- Shake to meet is as simple as it gets

Cons:

- Network effect challenges for a new social app

Ayushi Pareek
I liked the idea and the product looks clean and works really well. There are two things I was wondering about though. First, the list of activities is limited, I might want to do something completely different than one of these so maybe an option to customize or add activities can work better? Also, the groups that were created were really good but is there a way for me to add my own network to one of them or a way for me to create a personal group?
Ramnath Shenoy
Maker
@ayushi_pareek1 Thanks Ayushi! Activities are based on some user surveys that we did. We would like to add/remove activities based on feedback. We would also like to give the controls to the community managers to add the activities of their choice. Creating your own groups is on top of our list and is coming up next 🚀
Avneesh
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.
Natarajan H K
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.
Aarav Kapoor

There is definitely a need for such a product in the market and if it reaches the right audiences, I have a feeling it will do extremely well especially for people like me who do not like planned meetups. Good luck! I will be following the product closely and hopefully get a chance to meet some of you guys soon.

Pros:

Love the shake and meet feature and meeting people whenever you are free.

Cons:

On-boarding is too long but eventually it makes sense when you see automatic groups are created basis the information.

Ridameka Sutherland

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.

Vivaan sood
I joined PH yesterday- Why do I need Milo?
Natarajan H K
Maker
@vivaan_sood thanks for your comment. Milo is a platform for closed communities and designed to get members to know each other better and actually meet IRL. Do join the PH community on Milo and let us know what you think.
Karthik
Like the concept. A quick idea, can you pull the data from LinkedIn or Angel? That way I don't have to go through the onboarding process. Shake thing is pretty cool though.
Ramnath Shenoy
Maker
@niranjan_s That's something we flirted with in the beginning. We skipped it for this version only because of come technical constraints. A Product Hunt login was something we were looking to add. If the PH community size grows on Milo, we will definitely prioritise it over other features.
Mark W
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.🙏
Ramnath Shenoy
Maker
@_chip_munk Thanks Mark :) We'll definitely reach out!
Rashez Guillen
Looks great and refreshing. I see you also have group chat feature but it doesn't let me create my own groups. Any plans for it in future?
Natarajan H K
Maker
@rashez_guillen thanks for the note. Yes, it's among the top items on our priority list.
Raj Singh
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.
Ramnath Shenoy
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.
Akash Gupta
Attention to detail in this app is just stunning. Great job 👍 Any chance I can connect with people are interested specific skills?
Ramnath Shenoy
Maker
@akashgupta112 Thanks! You can filter people from the Discover tab based on interests. We are looking to add skills as well as give people a way to share those skills, for goodwill or money. Stay tuned!
Piyush Mayank
Is the product hunt community on Milo App still active?
Ige Jen Iyiola
downloaded, but I need an invite to access.