Over the past couple of months, a buddy and I have been working on developing a new kind of social network, designed for what's important: actually keeping in touch with your friends.
Especially during these times of lock-down and other measures, it is increasingly difficult to keep in touch with everybody you want to keep in touch with, and individually calling or texting every one of them is almost impossible.
In comes Nutshell! We've designed this social network for people who just want to share what they've been doing over the past period with their friends, and want to be able to follow what their friends have been up to. That's all it is! No more tag-abuse, no more random scrolling until you've run out of hours in a day, just you and your friends sharing your stories.
These stories come as Nutshells, and can be posted once a week. You will have all week to edit them and write them just as you'd like, and can schedule them for release every Monday. If weekly updates are too much, you can decide to make your Nutshells bi-weekly, monthly, or just whenever you feel like it!
The app has been purposely designed to not feature more functionality than sharing your own Nutshell and reading your friends' Nutshells. This should reduce both the social media anxiety commonly caused by focus on the number of friends or likes a user has, and the amount of time spent in-app, scrolling aimlessly. We feel like all time spent in the Nutshell app should be used to write your own Nutshell and read your friends' Nutshells, no more and no less.
Should amazing Nutshells compel you to talk to your friends some more, we will have achieved our goal! Luckily, a plethora of options is available to do this, such as calling, texting, or actually dropping by in person once that's allowed again. This way, we feel that this is the first social network to actually promote social behavior!
Contrary to some other social networks, your data will never be shared with external parties, and we will also never use it ourselves to manipulate you. Add more explanation
On top of all these goodies, we're even aiming to be and stay an ad-free social network! Additional functionality that is still to be developed might become pay-to-use as a way for us to pay our bills, but users will always be able to use our network for free! Add more explanation
Over the past couple of months, a buddy and I have been working on developing a new kind of social network, designed for what's important: actually keeping in touch with your friends. Especially during these times of lock-down and other measures, it is increasingly difficult to keep in touch with everybody you want to keep in touch with, and individually calling or texting every one of them is almost impossible.
In comes Nutshell! We've designed this social network for people who just want to share what they've been doing over the past period with their friends, and want to be able to follow what their friends have been up to. That's all it is! No more tag-abuse, no more random scrolling until you've run out of hours in a day, just you and your friends sharing your stories.
These stories come as Nutshells, and can be posted once a week. You will have all week to edit them and write them just as you'd like, and can schedule them for release every Monday. If weekly updates are too much, you can decide to make your Nutshells bi-weekly, monthly, or just whenever you feel like it!
The app has been purposely designed to not feature more functionality than sharing your own Nutshell and reading your friends' Nutshells. This should reduce both the social media anxiety commonly caused by focus on the number of friends or likes a user has, and the amount of time spent in-app, scrolling aimlessly. We feel like all time spent in the Nutshell app should be used to write your own Nutshell and read your friends' Nutshells, no more and no less.
Should amazing Nutshells compel you to talk to your friends some more, we will have achieved our goal! Luckily, a plethora of options is available to do this, such as calling, texting, or actually dropping by in person once that's allowed again. This way, we feel that this is the first social network to actually promote social behavior!
Contrary to some other social networks, your data will never be shared with external parties, and we will also never use it ourselves to manipulate you. Add more explanation
On top of all these goodies, we're even aiming to be and stay an ad-free social network! Additional functionality that is still to be developed might become pay-to-use as a way for us to pay our bills, but users will always be able to use our network for free! Add more explanation