Give your community a real home.
Name it, claim a handle, describe who it's for, and decide how people get in. Your group gets a page of its own that members and newcomers can actually find.
One group, separate conversations.
Streams keep a busy community organized — announcements in one place, introductions in another, and focused threads for the topics your members care about most.
Communities are built between the events.
A meetup ends and the momentum usually goes with it. Groups keep the room together afterwards — the introductions, the follow-ups, the asks and offers that turn a crowd into a community.
See who's in the room.
Every member is a real Personal Profile, so the directory shows what people actually do, where they are, and what they know — and a conversation is one click away.
Everything a community needs in one place.
Announcements.
Reach every member when it matters, with an announcement stream organizers control.
Member messaging.
Private conversations between members inside the group, without trading contact details first.
Notifications your way.
Each member chooses All activity, Important only, Mentions only, or Muted — per group.
Found by the people who belong there.
Groups are discoverable by category, industry, topic, membership type and distance — and Local Mode brings the ones near you to the surface.
Run it with the people you trust.
Owners and Admins share the work — approving requests, moderating content, posting announcements and keeping the group healthy — with a clear record of who did what.
Connected to the rest of Startup Otter.
Events.
Share the gatherings your community is hosting or attending, right alongside the conversation.
Resources.
Keep the tools, programs and knowledge your members rely on attached to the group.
Private by design.
Posts inside a group stay inside it unless an author chooses to share with the wider community.
Your community, on your terms.
Groups can be archived and brought back whenever you're ready, ownership can be handed to the next organizer, and deletion gives you a 30-day window to change your mind.