A social media app designed for meaningful discussions
ETHOS is a social network designed to improve the quality of discourse we can have online. Content focusses on shared causes, and with every session, users should feel better about themselves and the impact of their time spent online.
Everyone has something they care about, and many many people feel rubbish after using social media. What's the link? Well, I believe if it were easier for us to connect with the stuff that really makes us "us", we would feel less empty when connecting online.
I'm the founder of ETHOS. The app was borne out of an interest in the power of content recommendation algorithms and the possibility of quantifying this impact on discourse at scale. Can we build a social network that doesn't rely on cycles of addiction?
We're early in the product journey, but believe in pioneering technologies that can improve such discourse online. We have a first of its kind fact checking tool, a community of users discussing varieties of topics, and a commercial model that doesn't conflict with the mission [neither in the short nor long-term].
We would love to hear from the Product Hunt community as to what we should be prioritising in our journey to creating a better social environment. Thank you for reading this far!
About ETHOS on Product Hunt
“A social media app designed for meaningful discussions”
ETHOS launched on Product Hunt on May 23rd, 2023 and earned 70 upvotes and 16 comments, placing #39 on the daily leaderboard. ETHOS is a social network designed to improve the quality of discourse we can have online. Content focusses on shared causes, and with every session, users should feel better about themselves and the impact of their time spent online.
On the analytics side, ETHOS competes within Social Media, Social Impact and Social Networking — topics that collectively have 93.6k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how ETHOS performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted ETHOS?
ETHOS was hunted by Alejandra de Brunner. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Alejandra de Brunner