Hello there, hope you are having a great start of the year 2021!
Before I start with the app details I will tell you how we came up with the idea.

After graduation, I had moved to Amsterdam for my first job and thankfully I have a friend Arihant there that took off some of the social burden(aka making new friends) that comes with moving.

For my second job, I moved to Berlin without knowing anyone in the city. I tried going to meetups but I couldn’t make any connections due to topics of discussion being too broad(COVID-19 lockdown only making things worse).

To my relief, my high school friend Gautham also moved to Berlin a month later from Zurich and he has had similar experiences too.

This experience(or… hey, “life” in general :p) has taught us a lot. Especially the importance of social life and how it really affects your mental health. It is easy to be trapped in a feeling of not being social if you have special interests and narrow minded focus. But interests themselves can restore much needed community and sense of purpose by enabling selective socialising.

So, me and Gautham came up with an app idea to form exclusive online communities. Users can create communities(think online groups) with hashtags and can vouch each other for up to 3 different hashtags. Now communities are discoverable by users based on that social graph making sure right communities are found by right users.
For instance, Gautham vouched me for swimming, programming and travelling. Now communities that are exclusive to programmers are discoverable for me to join.

That’s for userflow. I would love to hear stories about making new friends or finding a new interest through Leet. Among other things, this has taught me how much it takes to move a product to the finish line.

Kudos to Gautham for all the amazing designs, definitely a work of art :). Happy to have worked with him after years and apparently he is much better at this than chemistry titrations :p. Big thanks to Awni for all the flutter code and everyone that helped with initial feedback. I took care of the backend.

I will share the apk if you would like to give it a try. We are still on refining the application, any feedback is welcome!