SUSHI
Bridging online and offline communities
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Peter Andrew Boyce II

SUSHI - Bridging online and offline communities

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SUSHI is building communities for genuine discussion. Social products have been built with your screen as an end point. We want our communities to simply be a spring board for real life interactions. It's going to take a lot of work and we are in the very early stages, but we hope you can build great communities with us :)

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Peter Andrew Boyce II
Hunter
Really excited to share SUSHI. Reggie just finished up his time at RDV while he was a student at Penn, and I’ve been able to witness him jam on bridging online and offline communities. Social products can do more to spark experiences in real life, and I’m excited to see this project grow.
Reggie James
Maker
Hey Product Hunt! I’m the founder of SUSHI, and I’m so excited to share this project with all of you. When you look at social media right now, it is all based on the idea of broadcasting. Shooting out your life and thoughts, and receiving a feed of information and media in return. However, we’ve lost the art of discussion across networks and it’s hard to forge new friendships over shared interests. Right now our phones are the endpoints of social experiences. Our goal is to make it a springboard for real life interactions. I know the last thing anyone wants right now is another social product, but our team truly believes that bridging online and offline communities is a serious need that has to be addressed. When you join SUSHI you’ll be able to join small group chats (max size is 7) around topics you want to jam on. You’ll also have a switch that shows you the closest chats to you based on the creator. We have big plans for how we will build and bridge this new social graph. We hope that we can share and grow this experience with you and a host of others :)
tom meagher
@reggie_startups congrats on the launch! Being forced to invite three friends to complete the sign up flow adds a lot of friction. Why not let someone sign up first?
Reggie James
Maker
@tomfme Thank you! Yeah, we definitely wrestled with that decision. In the end we know that sharing is key so we wanted to push the hand a little bit. We know some people might drop out, but we think it'll be worth it for reaching those outside our network.
Milan vd Bovenkamp ♠
@reggie_startups Interesting product man! Your vision is really similar to ours, what we're building is more the discovery part I guess, you're more facilitating the community and conversations. Great stuff! Welcome to this exciting world online and offline social products. Will try your product and share some feedback.
Reggie James
Maker
@milann Very cool! Let's definitely jam on it some time :)
Milan vd Bovenkamp ♠
@reggie_startups I can't download it though, it's only for the US App Store. Once also had a US app store account but not anymore...
Dillon Chen
Been playing around with this. It's a lot of fun! Community seems pretty nice so far. BTW, think the name is really catchy, there's gotta be a story behind it
Reggie James
Maker
@dillchen Thanks so much for the support. Before we landed on the name SUSHI, it was called Pod. But some rando, can't remember who, suggested the name SUSHI. It stuck hard and now we have fun things like "rolls" = group chats that you join.
Reggie James
Maker
@dillchen Real talk, thanks for the name <3
Arun
@dillchen @reggie_startups Unrelated, but can you upload a proper logo to this Product Hunt listing?
Reggie James
Maker
@arunsathiya Done! :)
Jeffrey Wyman
Only on iOS?
Reggie James
Maker
@jeffrey_wyman Yes! Only iOS for now. Want to understand the experience deeper before building out for all of our Android friends :)
Arun
@jeffrey_wyman @reggie_startups I cannot wait to see this happen!
Arun
This look very exciting. Please launch this on Android soon. Thanks! :D
Josh Khoury
Cool product name, guys ;) And I also enjoy your design.
Reggie James
Maker
@josh_khoury thanks so much!!!
Austin Sandmeyer
SUSHI 🍣🙌
Derek Jobst
I'm so excited to see SUSHI finally in iOS app form! What a great idea, from a brilliant team of makers!
Reggie James
Maker
@derekjobst Thanks so much homie, as soon as you're ready to join the team let me know ;)
Artur Kiulian
Best name, ever haha
Reggie James
Maker
@arturkiulian Hahahaha thanks! don't let it get to @dillchen head though :p
Mohammed Rafy
You connect online and then you connect offline. Is it? How is it different from Meetup.com? I'm pretty much excited about this idea.
Reggie James
Maker
@rafyasarmatta Meetup was definitely a product and team that we looked at when working on this vision. I think there are a lot of components that make us different than Meetup, namely the product flow itself. Meetup (at its most basic form) is a stream of events you can attend after you select communities you align with. SUSHI (at its most basic form) is conversation driven. Users are able to build rapport over shared commonalities/experiences/geographies. Right now definitely focused on building a great community experience, and having them use their own work arounds to meet offline. That way we can study how to build dope tools for offline engagement 😄
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