Welcome to Boonoob: The Social Web for Social Good

Boonoob is a social networking platform aiming to connect 1 billion people by 2030 to meaningful activities for a happier lifestyle, meeting needs, and helping each other during the pandemic and beyond. These activities range from leisure like parties all the way to volunteering, donations, and paid services. Our business model mainly focuses on listing and promoting these activities. Starting in 2016 we have connected thousands of people and listed hundreds of public and private events. Today, we are excited to connect more.

Update: We have invented our own virtual event platform and this NYE we put it into test. We hosted a record breaking Worldwide NYE 2021 for 24 hours across the globe starting from New Zealand all the way to Hawaii. Thousands of people and many artists and celebrities joined us for this event. We will continue to host more events including Love Festival 2021 for Valentine's day and Social Good event, and more.

We will also be able to rent the virtual venue to our fellow organizers. Our platform unlike many other platform can host unlimited number of participants with fully customizable features much lesser price than our competitors.

From a simple "Aha" moment to creating a social network that aims to connect the world, our story is full of thrill moments, our market is massive, and our team is strong.

Hesam built the first MVP in 2016  for University of New Hampshire where thousands of students joined the social network. He dreamed bigger and moved to San Francisco.

From there, Boonoob explosively expanded where he met friends to do weekly gatherings. These weekly gatherings went viral to become legitimate massive parties. Through these events he met like-minded friend and also his co-founders Yves Songolo and Kishan Trivedi.

Since 2018, Boonoob has listed hundreds of private events and connected thousands of people. Our party highlights include a Costume Cruise in 2018 and ScaryGoodTimes in 2019, both Halloween events. To date, our biggest event took place during our 2020 New Years Eve Dance Party, pooling in over 1,000 attendees, $83k in revenue, and was ranked the most popular party in San Francisco.
Our Virtual Worldwide New Year Eve 2021 attracted thousands of people across the world with 20+ artists and many celebrities hosted on our own virtual platform!

We have built Boonoob with methodological approach and based on science of happiness. Science of happiness is a scientific approach to happiness. Let us touch briefly on the subject. The most prominent happiness theory is called PERMA model which we call REMAP:

Relationships: An important factor in happiness is the people you are connected with. The stronger your friendships the happier you become. Quality is much important than the number of the friends. 

Engagement: The more you are engaged in doing something the happier you become. This is also called the state of Flow or being in the zone presented by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi. 

Meaning: The more meaningful life you live, the more goals you have the more happier, stronger, and resilient you will become. 

Accomplishment:  The more you get things done the happier you become. Even getting simple daily tasks done will help you become happier.

Positive emotions: the more you feel positive the happier you become. Such as the feelings of confidence, gratitude, and hope. This factor has two components: intensity and frequency. Also seeing others doing nice things make you happier. Watch video: Simon Sinek.

You can read more about PERMA model of science of happiness here.

The global pandemic has caused millions of unemployment and more than a million deceased globally. It changed health care, international relations, education, urban life, and many other aspects of our lives. Luckily, we are living in the digital age where more than 4.5 billion people are connected through the internet in just 31 years. Technology kept people connected, productive and collaborative on economic, social and environmental issues.

Imagine a world where everyone is happier because meeting our needs is easy, cheap, and fast with the aid of technology; Where there is an abundance of employment opportunities, easy health care access, more safety, social support, and protection. We want to bring this vision to life.

Boonoob connect people to activities encompassing anything from leisure to paid services solving all the problems mentioned above directly or indirectly. You can list your activities. You can add friends and make new ones. Your timeline shows what your circle has done for your community and keep up on what activities your friends are participating in. 

In the same manner we have connected people to leisure activities, our unique design has enable us to expand to volunteering and servicing activities as well. 

We will be offering the ability to list numerous types of paid services such as housekeeping, handy work, tutoring, shopping, health and wellness, event planning, and etc. Moreover, we are offering the chance to volunteer/get the help needed for free, and donate goods/raise funds.

Let's compare the costs, shall we? Currently, Craigslist charges $10 for a gig listing in San Francisco while Thumbtack charges service providers 20% ($100) for amounts less than $500.

In contrast, Boonoob charges only $0.99 flat fee for any type of paid services of any amount while volunteering and donation listings are absolutely for free. 10x times less than Craigslist and 100x times less than Thumbtack.

Our market is a unique combination of three massive markets because we are revolutionizing how a next generation social network should work: Event ticketing, gig economy, and online ads.

Event Ticketing: with about $54 Billion global market at 2019 this market has only penetration rate of about 9%. Meaning there is 91% of market left to be penetrated. We will be charging a % of tickets sold.

Gig economy: with 57 Million gig workers in US alone for 2019, this booming ever expanding market is here to stay. With recently passed prop 22, this economy is it's just getting bigger and better. We will charge a flat listing fee of only $1 for pad services.

Online ad spending: another gigantic market of $36 Billion in US alone for 2019. We would enable good products and activities to be seen more. However our goal is to reduce our reliance on this market alone. For few good reason which goes back to caring about our costumers.

Have you watched The Social Dilemma film on Netflix?

The main point of the film is that social media makes money from your data and manipulations to get you back on the platform so they can sell more ads to you. Around the end of the movie however, Jaron Lanier the author of the book Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now and others propose that a solution to this problem is financial incentivization and a change in these business models.

Well, the good news is, by offering financial incentives such as events and gigs we are already solving these issues!! Additionally we are planning to move toward subscription plans where costumers can choose how they would like to interact with the platform.

Very similar to other social networking platforms, Boonoob is easy to use and very friendly! Starting an activity from the start to finish will be smooth and engaging.

Our iOS app is being published on the AppStore. A web app and an Android version is to follow. You can join the network at Boonoob.com.

Among many competitive advantage we have, are: 

Impact: Although we are sure that will make a lot of money, our platform has been created with a good heart to bring happiness to it's costumers ground up. We believe in costumer first approach and create meaningful change in people's lives across the world. We live by 7 core values: Good Planet, Good People, Good Products, Good Places, Good Parties, Good Privacy, and Good Prices. Aligned with our values we are giving 10% to NGOs across the globe to empower humanity.

Financial Incentives: Our costumers are incentivized to use our platform for their own good to make and save money. This is in contrast to most social networks out there which costumers are in fact the product. Proudly this will put us ahead in the transition to more sustainable platforms.

A Reputation Based system: Our platform is a reputation-based platform meaning costumers will get to create their reputation by doing good for others. This will in turn will create a safer environment to explore and additionally will generate more opportunities for active costumers.

Low Fees: One of our core values is low prices. Compared to other platform offering same functionality we will always try to make it even cheaper. As mentioned before for gig platforms for example we are at least 10X cheaper while offering much better experience. Making us even harder  defeat.

Design & Brand: Boonoob is made of two words: Boon (skillful) , and Noob (newbie). Not only the name speaks for itself the colorful design separates us instantly from most one color(blue) social networks. Additionally our B logo (hand logo/OK) is obviously a catchy gesture in contrast to old overly used thumbs up known for Facebook.   

First to Market: We are first to market in few perspective. We understand that we will be a major activity based social network. We also understand that no social network has ever tried to incorporate gig economy into daily life of it's costumers where people can produce and consume these activities. We additionally appreciate the fact the we have combined few functionalities in one platform like having few apps in just one app.