Had enough of social networking? Try out neighborhood networking.
Areapal, Chennai based student startup has launched their networking portal enabling people to network with others in their neighborhood.
During the registration process, you need to specify your location and Areapal will showcase people residing in the same area.
The site is in a very early mode (with very few users in the system) – and is pretty much laid out like Orkut (they should launch an Orkut app as well). Areapal lets you buy/sell items in your locality marketplace, add events etc.
Do give Areapal a dekho and share your opinion. If they are able to attract users, they can surely monetize via local ads (something which is restricted to local search players only).
What’s your opinion on philosophy of ‘neighborhood’ networking? Isn’t networking either global (like talking to your friends on Facebook) or purely local (for e.g. commonfloor)?
There are couple of “neighborhood” networking start ups that I am aware of – apartmentadda.com & commonfloor.com, though areapal does not seem to be in direct competetion with them. The sites that I refer to seem to be created to make life little bit easier for apartment/community based living.
Very nicely done site…so much better than minglebox and yaari shit…well done kids…way to go!
I like the concept. I wish they had a demo or a guest sign-up of some sort to explore the site without being required to register.
Hey Thanks for the coverage guys
@Rohit – Yeah sure we r continuesly in the process of innovation and trying to prove ourselves different . Thanks
nice work ! though at a nascent stage, its well done.
WTF! Another social network! Going to die soon!
Hey this is a pretty cool site. got a lot of friends in my locality. cool concept man
team@areapal: i am yet to explore the site, but i would say it is good concept. all the best.
if you also get a facebook app created, you can get more people to join in for sure.
hai