Product Idea

HubHomes

Home sharing platform to fight the loneliness epidemic
Elijah Johnston
Nick Sarafa
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October 5, 2020
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Design Solutions

The Problem

Background

As someone who has found several hubs around the world that feel like home, it’s hard to imagine being in a single place long-term.

The ideal scenario for myself and many that I know would be to live seasonally in the places that feel like home. However, it is impractical to have to purchase a home in every place - and what a waste that would be if it’s empty for most of the year. On the other hand, it’s a bit of a hassle to have to find a new place to live every time you return to that hub.

Recent events in our world have amplified the power of remote work, so there are even more people now that would find this to be a preferable lifestyle. So what if there were a way for communities to organize?

If you have a home somewhere, I have a home somewhere, and our other friend also has a home somewhere else - let’s organize and plan locations as a collective. Think of your own community’s AirBnb without the need to pay per night and with a shared schedule that allows you all to co-locate.

Key insights

⚡️  Social connections are core to our wellbeing

⚡️  Nomadic lifestyles are on the rise

⚡️  Multiple homes or hubs are becoming preferable

The Solution

Overview

HubHomes is a web-app for friends who have homes in different places. It provides a way for people to form home networks and book out their homes amongst their communities. A hub isn’t a home without the people that make it such so you and your nomadic friends can also plan your co-location.

As an organizer, you can add and remove members from your group. As people become more nomadic and places become more seasonal, this is a way for communities of friends to keep track of their upcoming plans.

Key Features
Design Principles
Design Inspo
MVP Concept

Super simple, create a website using Wix for instance and talk to your friends to see who would be down for this, and actually do it. Do your friends have no homes around the world they could add to this list of Hubhomes? Then look elsewhere, find the right people out there, the nomads that value community.

Next Steps

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Product Idea

HubHomes

Home sharing platform to fight the loneliness epidemic
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The problem

Background

As someone who has found several hubs around the world that feel like home, it’s hard to imagine being in a single place long-term.

The ideal scenario for myself and many that I know would be to live seasonally in the places that feel like home. However, it is impractical to have to purchase a home in every place - and what a waste that would be if it’s empty for most of the year. On the other hand, it’s a bit of a hassle to have to find a new place to live every time you return to that hub.

Recent events in our world have amplified the power of remote work, so there are even more people now that would find this to be a preferable lifestyle. So what if there were a way for communities to organize?

If you have a home somewhere, I have a home somewhere, and our other friend also has a home somewhere else - let’s organize and plan locations as a collective. Think of your own community’s AirBnb without the need to pay per night and with a shared schedule that allows you all to co-locate.

Key insights

⚡️  Social connections are core to our wellbeing

⚡️  Nomadic lifestyles are on the rise

⚡️  Multiple homes or hubs are becoming preferable

The idea

Solution Concept

HubHomes is a web-app for friends who have homes in different places. It provides a way for people to form home networks and book out their homes amongst their communities. A hub isn’t a home without the people that make it such so you and your nomadic friends can also plan your co-location.

As an organizer, you can add and remove members from your group. As people become more nomadic and places become more seasonal, this is a way for communities of friends to keep track of their upcoming plans.

Key Features
Design Principles
Design Inspo

Next steps: Building an MVP

Our MVP Concept

Super simple, create a website using Wix for instance and talk to your friends to see who would be down for this, and actually do it. Do your friends have no homes around the world they could add to this list of Hubhomes? Then look elsewhere, find the right people out there, the nomads that value community.

What's needed

Modern Mantra Podcast

Each month we publish 4x podcasts around one of our core design themes, looking at the roots of our modern spiritual imbalance and conceptualizing new ways to use technology to help the world heal.

In our How Might We podcasts, we start with a specific design question, unearth widespread societal pain points, and conceptualize new Design Solutions that can help solve them.

In our Guest podcasts, we talk with conscious founders about their journey building heart-centered technology.

The podcast is hosted by the studio's two founders, Nick Sarafa and Elijah Johnston. Both have extensive backgrounds in all parts technology and entrepreneurship as well as personal healing journeys that involve deep work in spiritual realms.

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Design This With Us

If the world is to heal and move towards a place of higher consciousness, we need new solutions. We believe that
HubHomes

is one that could help us to get there.

While this is only a concept, with the right team we could bring this to fruition. Enough small pushes like this and we can help usher in a new paradigm for the human family.

If you're a designer, product or tech person, share a similar ethos to ourselves, and see yourself in a potential leadership role, we'd be keen to hear from you. Drop us an email at ryan@modernmantra.co to kick off the conversation.

  • Co-designing with Modern Mantra

  • Create healing technology that moves the world forward.

  • Work with a team of heart-centered designers, engineers, innovators, and creatives.

  • Share in the ownership of any venture that we co-design.