Every group of friends has a hyper-organized, almost annoyingly persistent planner. The person who makes sure that everyone meets for brunch or game night (or a few rounds of drinks) at least once a month. That person now has a friend in Nextt, a new "anti-social network" that combines organizing, messaging, and socializing in one spot.
Start with the basics by brainstorming an idea on Nextt.
Plenty of social networks let you make plans on the spot, but it can quickly turn into a free-for-all and doesn't work well for confirming times, making reservations, or any of the other boring details required for herding the cats you call your friends. (I'm sure they're nice people.)
Nextt is opening its formerly invite-only doors to the public and launching an iOS app to make planning a little easier. The start-up is positioning itself as a "private network for close friends," which sounds similar to Path, but Nextt is focused on encouraging those friends to go outside and actually hang out. While Path's primary functions are messaging your friends and broadcasting your location, Nextt is designed to round up your friends in one digital location for the purpose of hanging out offline.
"Your in-person friends add so much to your life, yet they don't really have a place that's reached the mainstream,"said CEO Mark McGuire, who sold his last startup, Jellyfish, to Microsoft. "The way I connect with them isn't chatting or sharing photos with them of things I've done, it's putting my phone down and doing more together with those friends in the real world."
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