Today is an incredibly exciting day. Why? Because after months of work, we are finally announcing our €300k seed round for Somus 🎉 . Let’s get started with what we imagine will be the frequently asked questions! 🕊 What are we building? We’re pioneering a social platform where every piece of content is powered with…

Hey there! How are you doing? What have you been up to? We hope that wherever you are, things are looking better than they did when we last sent an update. 🤔 What have we been up to? As we mentioned in our last update, we’ve been busy managing the transition into Somus ! This has meant…

It’s been a long time coming — TLDR; We’re changing our product strategy and name, we’ve got our first investor, we’ve got a 30 million people launch audience, we got some incredible people on-board our team, we’re considering equity crowd-funding (please fill the form if interested), we’re going fully remote. 👋 Hey there! How are you? How’s the family? We…

Link previews is an incredibly useful feature to have in social networks and messaging apps. They add valuable context to what otherwise would just be a string of undecipherable characters like https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ, in other words, it turns sharing links into sharing content. This in turn sparks users conversations and discussion…

👋 Hey there! Sorry about the radio silence. We’ve been busy building Okuna for the web and profile visibility settings to make sure who wishes to go internet-wide-public on our launch, can do it at the tap of a button. Here’s a peek into into our progress. 🏡 Communities One of the great things of…

An unfortunate update that was meant to be a fortunate one. — A couple weeks back we posted on our c/patrons community about what was next for the Okuna team, we mentioned we had submitted a research proposal back in November to the Dutch Government for subsidy, about a month later, we got a verbal confirmation on it and were expecting the…

#Hashtags are here! — 🎅 Ho-ho-ho-la there! How are you doing? How’s the family? The cats? Dogs? We hope you and the people (or pets) around you are all doing great. As holidays get closer and closer (Oh yes!), we thought of doing one last big release for the year, release 0.0.59. It includes one of the…

🧭 Explore tab is here! 👷‍♂️ Hey there! We’re busy-busy building our sustainability model and preparing the app stores launch! In the meanwhile, we’re shipping a smaller than usual (yet important) release 👼. Here’s what changed 🧭 Explore tab A new way to discover new communities! In the search page, you will now find an Explore…

🌮 Hola! So far, when it has come to knowing what’s next on Okuna, the community relied on people digging into our Github repository and figuring out based on tags, what’s to come short term vs long term. While this mostly worked out, some people also wanted to see a broader roadmap…