This New App Lets You Ask For Help When You Need It, Give It When You Can
This New App Lets You Ask For Help When You Need It, Give It When You Can
John Popel joined me to tell me about his new app, Chummy, that helps you ask for help when you need it and give help when you can. It is available both in app store for IOS devices and in Google Play for Android devices.
Interview with John Popel, the Head of Growth of Chummy.
The following is the pre-interview with John Popel. Be sure to watch the recorded interview above.
What is the problem you solve and how do you solve it?
In fact, Chummy serves to solve a set of personal social problems:
In modern cities, people face daily problems alone. Gone are the days when people borrowed a cup of sugar from the neighbor or shared a cold beer with a thirsty stranger.
6/10 Americans gravitate toward paying it forward and helping like-minded people. The issue is there’s been no way to identify the kind, like-minded fellows in the city. There’s been no safe and fun tool for engaging in daily random acts of kindness.
Even having hundreds of virtual “friends,” people feel the lack of real chums who matter and on whom they can rely. The “friends” we make online nowadays are often inauthentic and have no value in real life.
Since our childhood, things like scouting and Marvel/DC superheros have stoked our craving to become real superheroes in our home city. Too bad there’s been no way to make that happen.
What solutions does our product offer to solve the problems stated above?
Using Chummy, you don’t deal with your problems alone. Hundreds and thousands of good, like-minded, real Chummies in your city sincerely want to help you.
We’re very serious about the quality of the community and the reputation of people involved. Chummy unites only the most caring and kind individuals. No tricksters who will take advantage of the goodwill of other people is allowed on Chummy.
A friend in need is a chum indeed. That’s one of the crucial advantages of Chummy. Chummies are real, approachable and friendly to each other. Their reputation is proved by their real deeds transparently shown in their public profiles. Chummies are people you have a great chance to occasionally meet in your city in real life. They are people you wouldn’t feel embarrassed about joining uninvited for a drink if you bump into them in a bar. Or invite them to join you to hang out to play Call of Duty or watch TED talks together.
Yey! This city needs a hero! Through the transparent records of good deeds you can increase your Chummy level, get public scout-like badges (coming soon) and become famous as a real-live superhero in your city! There is a monthly rating of every good deed made by you and every other Chummy we’re going to use in The Hero Herald newspaper in Seattle for heroes level ratings. As well as the correlation about each good deed in a neighborhood with its happiness, safety, and friendliness.
Graphical Explanation of Chummy: https://chummyapp.com/why-chummy/
More about Chummy:
Facebook: https://facebook.com/chummyhelp/
Website: https://chummyapp.com
Chummy is the simplest way to ask for help and pay it forward
For-profit/Nonprofit: For-profit
Revenue model: While at the current stage of Chummy we are focused on the growth and quality of our community of kind, good and friendly people, there are many opportunities to fuel that growth financially. E.g. according to the fresh statistics by #CCSIndex, around 61% of Americans feel it is important to buy from socially responsible companies. Joining the our future partnership of kindness such companies could manifest their good attitude by accepting ThankYou tokens our users receive in the app for helping other people. It might be a win-win-win (Social Responsible Companies – Good People – Chummy). We’re aiming to become the largest ecosystem of kindness in the United States and monetizing is the lowest priority for us now.
Scale: We have three dev offices by now: LA (Headquarters), Seattle (Branch Office), Kiev/UA (backend). We have 15 team members. After a year of beta-testing, the app’s ecosystem of kindness has attracted +61,000 iPhone and Android users. We’ve been gathering feedback and evolving along the way, and now we’re ready for an open release launching Chummy in Seattle for local concentrated MVP/growth/coverage.
John Popel
John Popel’s bio:
John was born on December 9th, 1982. He holds MBA degree in Marketing, including a MS in Computer Science. Hase over 13 years experience in marketing. Used to work chance to work as CMO for huge both Brick&Mortar and Brick&Clicks Retailers, B2B HoReCa suppliers. Got chance to work for Audi AG and even for Mission Control Center as a liaison officer. As interpreneur himself, used to create HoReCa Online Exhibition in 2009-2010 and B&C Australian furniture stores for in 2012-2014. Successfully gathered funds for physical product on Kickstarter. Joined Chummy team as the Head of Growth in early 2017.
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