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2023 Grants Challenge

Boonoob

Idea by Boonoob

Mission: Our goal is to provide a platform that encourages health, happiness, and genuine human connections by helping individuals flourish doing their favorite things, with their favorite people.

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What is the primary issue area that your application will impact?

Access to Creative Industry Employment (sponsored by the Snap Foundation)

In which areas of Los Angeles will you be directly working?

Other:: Apps covers entire USA

In what stage of innovation is this project, program, or initiative?

Expand existing project, program, or initiative

What is your understanding of the issue that you are seeking to address?

Boonoob is a unique social calendar app that revolutionizes the social technology space by encouraging users to create and discover virtual and in-person activities, fostering meaningful friendships. Advanced in-app messaging and chat features make communication and connection between users effortless, simplifying the planning and coordination of activities. Our innovative promotion program incentivizes users to invite their friends to join the app and attend events, expanding social circles and cultivating lasting relationships.

Describe the project, program, or initiative this grant will support to address the issue.

Boonoob is an activity marketplace where people can create, promote, discover, and participate in events and activities with like-minded friends and connections. Activity creators, called Super-Doers, can promote their events and activities and build a community around them. Activity attenders, called Doers, can engage in social interactions through chat, invitations, and subscriptions, as well as build friendships with those who share similar activity interests. Boonoob also provides revenue generating tools so creators can charge for their events and activities, get tips, and grow paying subscribers. The result is a powerful activity discovery + promotion recommendation engine, all in a single platform, that bridges the gap between Doers and Super-Doers, and fixes activity discovery by handling the entire discovery lifecycle from beginning to end.

Describe how Los Angeles County will be different if your work is successful.

Our goal is to eliminate loneliness epidemic. Mission: Our goal is to provide a platform that encourages health, happiness, and genuine human connections by helping individuals flourish doing their favorite things, with their favorite people.

What evidence do you have that this project, program, or initiative is or will be successful, and how will you define and measure success?

Getting to Product Market-Fit Before the coronavirus pandemic company was able to reach PMF and revenue through a web app for San Francisco party scene. Pandemic stopped our operations. We have reestablished our company in 2021 and just launched our mobile app on both Android and iOS on Oct 31st 2022. We have hosted multiple private activities. The results are fantastic and tells us that we are getting back to PMF quickly again! We will be on the web additional to our mobile apps soon. Note: Our new technology is pandemic proof, enabling us to host virtual audio and video activities with more than 100K participants at once. We can also spin up audio and video streaming services in a matter of days.

Approximately how many people will be impacted by this project, program, or initiative?

Direct Impact: 500

Indirect Impact: 500,000