We started Reciprocity to unlock the full potential of human connection. We made a Slack app sold to professional community managers that intelligently matched community members’ asks and offers for advice, introductions, and resources. Communities would thus benefit from increased member engagement, productivity, and most of all, human connection. However…

When I moved to Maui, I thought I knew Hawaii. After all, I had been going there with my family on vacation for years, growing up in California. But it turns out that you see things differently when you’re an adult and not a child, when you live somewhere rather…

We’re proud to announce that Reciprocity Community is available in the Slack App Directory. Now Slack administrators can intelligently match their members’ Asks and Offers for help without leaving their Slack Workspace. No need to make your members download a new app — meet them where they are!

Three months ago I bought a 1996 Winnebago Class B RV with a dream to live #vanlife full time, and I’m been renovating it ever since. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do, but since it’s moved from a dream to a reality it has gifted me dozens of new…

My reading reviews are getting scattered — last years roundup appeared solely on my email newsletter. Might as well return to Medium this time for more SEO and lasting power. This year the categories are: Speculative Fiction, Self Development, Nonfiction, and Narrative Fiction. My favorite books from this year were: …

Hey Andrew. Thank you for writing this piece. Truly. — It resonated with me on multiple levels: I’m having a personal reckoning with colonialism after moving to Hawaii during the pandemic and faced constant pushback online about it. (and your essay is a far more coherent criticism of colonialism than the epithets I get hurled at me on Twitter.) I…

Dear Riley, Congratulations on graduating high school! It’s been an honor to watch you grow and mature into a full fledged adult in recent years. Now you’re headed off to the University of Oregon in the fall (depending on what coronavirus has to say, of course), so it’s time for me to…

Summary Our current customer’s community is going strong (84 members, with 42% of members giving help, 30% receiving help, and 83% of asks receiving a reply), and they have decided to extend their contract to the end of 2020. We updated the web app to make it easier for members to…

Summary We closed a new customer in the higher education space with 200 members. We updated the web app to improve user experience and activity notifications, give admins more insightful engagement tools, and to improve backend reliability and scalability. We hired 2 NLP interns and 1 UX intern. We missed fundraising…