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2.  Urban Hood

Invite-only beta

# Urban Hood

Your neighbourhood, connected: people, places and everyday life.

[Tell me when it opens](https://caygnus.com/products/urban-hood#signup) [Build something like this](https://caygnus.com/work-with-us)

Category

Social

Platform

Android · iOS · Web

Status

Invite-only beta

Built for

Residents of a neighbourhood

Region

India

Our role

Product, design, build

The idea

## One neighbourhood, one shared space.

Urban Hood is a shared space for the people of one neighbourhood: local places, local happenings, local voices.

Neighbourhood apps built for global reach turn every local interaction into a feed of strangers. There was no focused space for one building or block to connect around what it shares.

A neighbourhood already shares something real: a street, a school run, a local shop that has been there longer than anyone remembers. A broad platform has to manufacture that context with algorithms and interest graphs. We only had to stay out of its way.

-   ### Built for residents.

    A broad-reach app has to make money from breadth, so over time it tunes for engagement between strangers. Urban Hood is built for the people who live there. It is not built for advertisers.

-   ### Context that already exists.

    Neighbours share streets, schools and shops before they ever open an app. We design around that shared context.

-   ### Better as it gets personal.

    We wanted an app that improves as it gets more personal. That is a smaller number on a slide, and we think a better product.


> “We could build a thin layer over 'everywhere', or a real layer over 'here'. We picked here.”

### From the journal

-   [Why we chose hyperlocal over broad reach for Urban Hood](https://caygnus.com/journal/hyperlocal-over-broad-reach)

In the beta

## An invite-only beta.

Urban Hood is open by invitation only. We will add detail here as the beta answers our questions.

### What we can say today

-   A shared space for the people of one neighbourhood.
-   Local places, local happenings, local voices.
-   Built for residents. Not built for advertisers.
-   In an invite-only beta on Android, iOS and Web, ahead of a wider rollout.

What the beta tests

Whether one shared space for a single neighbourhood, with its local places, happenings and voices, works in everyday use.

What we have found

It is early, and we have no findings to share yet. We will add them here as the beta answers our questions.

What it does not do yet

Access is by invitation only. Features and neighbourhoods are limited while we test.

Wider rollout

There is no date yet. Urban Hood opens to more people after the beta.

Urban Hood · Invite-only beta

## Tell me when it opens.

The beta is invite only for now. Leave your name, email and neighbourhood, and we will write to you when Urban Hood opens to more people.

[Or build something like it](https://caygnus.com/work-with-us)

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