SocialEyes · An ExpansionFlow product

Useful context.
Real-world connection.

People can share a place, an interest, and a reason to connect without discovering one another. SocialEyes brings those opportunities into view and lets people choose how to participate.

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Our work
Product direction, architecture, experience design, and development
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Web app beta & public Hub pilots
A published SocialEyes app example on a phone, with a map of activity clusters and discovery controls.
Example view from the SocialEyes product page.Map imagery: Mapbox · OpenStreetMap · Maxar
The product question

Give people a reason to look up.

A social product needs to be useful in the moment someone opens it. That might mean finding an activity, leaving a note, exploring an event, or discovering someone who is open to the same kind of connection.

SocialEyes connects those experiences through place, shared interests, present intent, and participation controls. People can browse quietly or choose to become discoverable.

Choice is part of the experience.

Visibility, location disclosure, and the way a conversation begins need deliberate rules. They shape both the product architecture and the interface.

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From product idea to real use

Two field settings.
Different ways to participate.

A signed-in event activation and a public community guide tested different entry points into the same broader product direction.

Signed-in field activation

Peace Love & Vans

Layer joins
77
Activity posts
40
Post views
253

Reported activity from SocialEyes’ independent event activation in Colorado. SocialEyes was not the official PLV app.

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Official community Hub pilot

Milbridge Days

Tracked browser sessions
289
Captured share actions
46

Partial-period observations. Tracking began near the end of the first event day. Browser sessions are not confirmed unique people.

Read the Milbridge field report

These are first-party reports published by SocialEyes. The reports explain their measurement limits; the figures do not establish event attendance or causal conversion.

A useful public starting point

Find the activity.
Then find the connection.

The Milbridge Days Hub brought an overview, map, schedule, and shareable activity pages into one public guide. People could use it without an account or app installation.

Explore the deployed Hub
The archived Milbridge Days 2026 SocialEyes Hub overview, showing the community identity and guide navigation.
Milbridge Days 2026 · Archived official HubInterface captured November 14, 2026
What the work taught us

Immediate utility creates a better starting point.

The field work pointed toward useful contexts—an event, a schedule, an activity, a place—as a way to make discovery valuable before a dense local social network exists.

It also made the next product questions more specific: how to prompt a first useful action, measure participation honestly, and turn individual deployments into a repeatable platform.

In development: broader unified Hub capabilities and self-service authoring. The deployed pilots demonstrate public guides; they do not represent a finished self-service Hub builder.

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A useful next step

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