Your own community app that grows engagement, retention & revenue
Launch a community app you own, and engage your paid members with powerful features and personal connections that grow revenue.
What are Minds Networks?
Minds Networks are white-label community apps for professional and enthusiast organizations.
Minds Networks are complete community apps, built on modern web technologies. Customize the branding, and host it on your domain. Invite your community to join your website and connect.
Integrate community with your existing website and audience. Add comments to your content pages, sync members status, and connect existing user accounts with SSO.
Launch your own mobile app on Android and iOS to engage your community when they're on the go. Reach them with push notifications to promote your content and member benefits.
Benefits for paid members
Host a community open to everyone, with exclusive access for paying members. Or create a space that's for members-only from the start.Customizable members experience
Customize permissions, groups access, and post paywalled content, whatever works for your unique community goals.
No platform fees
Create one or more membership tiers and set your own prices. Connect directly with your own Stripe account, so not only do you own your customer relationships, we also don't take a cut of your earnings.
Sync with external memberships
Already have paying members? Synchronize members access in the app with your existing external memberships platform to instantly connect paying members with the value of exclusive community access.
Member retention
Members retain better when they form community connections
Create a custom member experience that puts community at the center. Here's how Minds Networks let you do it.
Upgraded roles & permissions
Give paying members upgraded roles, with members-only badges, posting privileges, and more.
Paywalled posts
Share paywalled posts with text, images, and videos. Share easy behind-the-scenes updates, early access to videos, members-only discount codes, and more.
Members-only groups
Give paying members exclusive access to members-only groups for higher signal-to-noise ratio and access to staff.
Members-only chats
Let your members engage with you and in real-time chats for advice, coaching, or just deeper member connections.
Website integrations add community to what you do well
Weave community into the fiber of your existing business.Add comments to your content pages
Your content is a topic of discussion. Enable your audience to discuss it on your website -- not just on third party social media sites -- and seamlessly synchronize with discussions in your community app.
Sync with external memberships
Synchronize members access in the app with your existing external memberships platform to instantly connect paying members with the value of exclusive community access.
Sign in with SSO
Let users sign into your new community app with your existing logins via SSO. Supports all OpenID providers.
Your own branded mobile app
Upgrade your brand's mobile presence with your own white-label mobile app.Launch your brand to the app stores
Finally get your brand in the Android and iOS app stores with a mobile app that you own. Publish under app store accounts that you own, with zero development lift from you.
Reach your audience where they are
90% of mobile phone usage happens in apps, not websites (Wurmser, 2020). Get installed on the phones of your dedicated audience and keep them engaged with native push notifications.
Zero maintenance required
You handle the community and content. We'll handle the development, with free maintenance updates and new feature drops included.
Use cases
How people are using Minds Networks
Our flexible platform suits all community needs. Whether you're creating a community space for your most dedicated members, launching a media company into the app stores, connecting a niche community, or launching a social network to rival Big Tech, Minds Networks have the features and scale you need.
Give paying members access to exclusive discussion groups, where your staff can interact with your strongest supporters.
Invite your fans to your own social hangout. Build up a valuable mailing list, and convert your fans to paying subscribers, all while growing your reach on the decentralized Fediverse.
Effortlessly launch your brand to the Android and iOS app stores. Automatically update with your company's new content, and alert your audience with built-in push notifications.
Enable your audience to comment on articles and videos, on your site. Connect existing users with SSO for a seamless experience.
Minds Networks connect with each other, as well as the wider decentralized Fediverse through the ActivityPub protocol. Create your own social space without giving up connections with other online communities.
Launch a network behind your existing firewall and connect employees privately to broadcast important workplace updates, share industry news, and solicit asynchronous feedback.
Automations make community engagement effortless
Take the extra work out of running your own community with smart automations designed to save you time.RSS sync
Automatically share updates with your community by connecting to RSS feeds. Update with content from your website, YouTube channel, or podcast feed.
Newsletter
Keep your community engaged with an automated email newsletter that highlights top content from your community, even when they forget to check in.
Community moderation
Powerful reporting tools enable everyone to contribute to community curation. Empower trusted community moderators to help power through the report queue.
We've been featured in media around the world
There's even more to Minds Networks. Explore all features, or book a personalized demo with our team to show you.
Flexible pricing
Our pricing plans make monthly costs easy to predict, with flexible usage-based overages so the product never gets in the way of your growth.
Team
For individuals and creators starting a community
- 30 minutes of video storage
- 8,000 minutes of video viewing
- 8,000 interaction events
- Best for 20-250+ users
Community
For bloggers and independent publishers
- 500 minutes of video storage
- 120,000 minutes of video viewing
- 120,000 interaction events
- Best for 250-5000+ users
Business
For large communities with unlimited growth
- $0.0075 per additional minute of video storage
- $0.0015 per additional minute of video viewing
- $0.0015 per additional interaction event
- Best for 5,000-10,000+ users, scales as you go
App package
Launch your own branded, native mobile app
- Package includes Business tier + $1,000 / month mobile app add-on
- Maintenance and new feature drops for life
- One-time $10,000 setup fee includes hands-on support setting up app store accounts & launching your app
Built with ❤️ and open source
Minds Networks are open source. If our hosted solutions aren't right for you, you can launch your own network by downloading our code.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Does Minds take a cut of membership fees?
Nope! Memberships created with Networks connect directly to your own Stripe account, so member funds go directly to you, not through us as a middleman. You can even bring members from external services like Bloomerang.
Is a mobile app included with all plans?
Your own mobile app is an add-on to your basic pricing plan. All Community and Business plans are eligible for the mobile app add-on. We'll work with your team to create the app store listing, launch the app, and keep it updated with new features.
Who owns the user data?
We believe strongly that users who join your network are your users. To that end, you own all user data, including email addresses, engagement, and interests data, which you can use to supercharge your existing CRM.
Do Minds Networks scale?
We've been using the software to run our own network for over a decade, with millions of registered users and periodic waves of traffic from mentions in media like the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. We're confident we can handle any scale.
Am I locked into Minds Networks?
Our mission is to elevate global discourse through online freedom, which puts serious emphasis on self ownership. To that end, Minds Networks are built on open source software. While we provide the service of hosting and improving the software, it's also possible to fork the code and run it yourself.
What is ActivityPub?
ActivityPub is an open standard for social media posts that enables posts from one provider to be compatible with another. Minds Networks use the ActivityPub protocol, so posts created on your network can optionally reach audiences on other ActivityPub-powered providers like Mastodon, Threads, and Flipboard.
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