How far has Comunev come in connecting people?
By: Sweta Deb
Tags: Entrepreneur In Residence, Internships, Social Media, Entrepreurship, What The Faqs

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Comunev, a social networking company, aims to connect like-minded people so not many but a lot of people has this question with them to ask-

How far have you come in connecting people?

In today’s FAQ series blog let’s quench the thirst and fill the belly of everyone out there pondering over it.

In numbers it’s not easy, at this point of time, to say how far we have come but considering other factors like where we had started, the new normal, our growth, etc we have achieved a milestone that we hadn’t foreseen.

Hmm… So, to keep it short and simple let’s, first, begin with…

How did we start?

It was obvious that there was a need to connect people and help them to make real-life connections instead of doing mindless scrolling. We found that no one is doing it that good. So we decided to connect people based on their interest, not randomly.

Since we wanted to connect people based on the interest that binds them we decided to create interest-based communities. Each community shelters enthusiasts within which everyone can relate to each other.

Our first interest-based community was Speakom, a public speaking community. On seeing how rapidly the crowd was increasing and attending the event we decided to cater to other enthusiasts too.

So, many more communities were opened, based on specific interests like books, startups, fitness, etc.

Note: To know more about the interest-based communities read our Connect with Comunev series of blogs.

Our virtual appearance

Everything was fine. We were expanding not only in terms of our communities but also expanding our reach in other cities. But, we believe that something else was written in our destiny. And, then the WOW factor came. The unwelcome, one and only, Covid-19 struck the whole world.

It affected us too but we didn’t let our guard down. Seeing the new normal we shifted our events virtually and guess what now we can reach out to an even larger audience than before though we’re still trying to get a hold of it.

Most of our problems associated with finding a venue, number of people who can attend, getting advance registration of the hall and so on, was effaced when we decided to go online. But some bottlenecks befell too. Choosing a platform which corresponds with the event, for which community to hold an event and its frequency, feedback, and some other problems emerged.

Current Scenario

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Everything from selecting an event to organising it has now been virtual. This has given us added advantage as we always wanted to connect the people of the world and we can now see it becoming true but still a long way to go. Every Saturday, now, we conduct Bookom, a book-lovers community event seeing how widely people have accepted books in the lockdown as a source of their knowledge and passing time.

What’s more relishing is that when we started our journey we were only organising our own events. But now things have changed. We have also started conducting partnered events with companies who shared our goal. It has not only helped us in increasing our reach and more consistent events but getting to know too what drives our partners in their pursuit of connecting people. AIkom, an Artificial Intelligence community, and Blockom, a blockchain enthusiast community, has benefited the most through these partnered events.

How are we going to do it?

Simple. Just like how everyone else is doing. By building an app and a website. But then where’s the difference?

The difference lies in how you use our platform, what’s our motivating factor behind it, what’s the value we are giving and how we want to proceed with it. Our vision and goals set us apart.

But in terms features of the platform, we are building app and website to have multiple selling points that makes finding new connections really easy-

Matchmaking algorithm to find new connections based on common interests

Events to attend in your city with your new connections

Interest based communities to connect with a far bigger set of like-minded people

The website is live now and anyone willing to form a connection can sign up in our platform to join the community as per their interest. The app is, now, also available in play stores for android, as of now. Continuous improvement for both is in the pipeline and still, we are constantly exploring what it would take to get us closer to our goal.

This is just a start and we have just cracked the surface of the potential of connecting people and how people in society would like to connect. So far, it was not a journey of creation but discovery. And, that now we have witnessed what the problem is we are setting forth towards the door of creation.

All thanks to our teammates without whom we wouldn’t have been able to come this far. We are still learning, exploring and craving for more connections.

Also, it’s not us, it’s you who gave us the value to our existence. We want to create social media 2.0 where you can connect with people with a mere click and we want you to be a part of it.

So, join us on this journey. If you want to know our future endeavours or past achievements then follow Comunev blogs.

And, since you’ve read the article till now, that means something must have clicked in your mind as you were reading it. So please give us a clap if you liked it and we will keep answering your future questions like this.

Don’t just join us, connect with us.