Avokindo

Find Your Kind.

Avokindo is a community-powered platform that connects people, places, activities and commerce.

Find your next hobby. Meet people who share your interests. Discover what is happening near you. Be part of a community.

Free to download  ·  iOS and Android  ·  16 languages

The Discover tab in Avokindo, on the Communities view. A "Near you" list shows public communities — Sunway Night Market Crew and KL Runners — each with its return rate, distance away and member count.

What it connects

Four things that usually live in four different apps.

01

People

Communities you can actually join, and the people already in them.

  • Start a community, or find one near you
  • Feed, Events, Members and Memories in every one
  • Add a connection and message them
02

Places

Real venues, claimed by the people who run them and open to being booked.

  • Capacity, regulars and what a place is known for
  • Request a booking; a recurring slot is a residency
  • Check in when you are there
03

Activities

Something to turn up to — open to the community, or ticketed with a door.

  • Communities post events; members show interest
  • A ticketed event issues passes and scans them at the door
  • Release a spot you cannot use and it reopens
04

Commerce

A priced ticket is paid in the app, and the organiser is paid out afterwards.

  • Payment is taken in the app, processed by toyyibPay
  • Cancel an event and every ticket is marked for refund
  • Organisers watch sales and payouts on one screen

What is inside

Communities run it. Events fill it. Artists and venues make it worth showing up for.

Communities

A group with somewhere to actually live.

Start one around what you already do, or find one near you. Every community gets four tabs and keeps them for good.

  • Feed, Events, Members and Memories — the four tabs every community has.
  • A public community shows its return rate — how much of it keeps coming back — next to its distance from you.
  • Events are organised by communities, so members always know who is behind them.
The KL Film Society community page in Avokindo, showing its return rate and location, the Feed, Events, Members and Memories tabs, a list of upcoming screenings and critique nights, and a Join button.
Ticketed events

Limited spots, and a door that knows who is in.

An open event is an invitation to your members. A ticketed event is a limited run, with a pass each guest shows at the door.

  • Organisers scan passes at the door and watch issued, admitted and waiting move in real time.
  • A guest can release a spot they cannot use, and it opens up again for someone else to take.
  • An event is free, or it has a price. A priced ticket is paid through Avokindo, and the organiser is paid out afterwards.
The organiser's view of a ticketed event called Night Market Live in Avokindo, showing counts of passes issued, guests admitted and people waiting, buttons to scan passes at the door and view the guest list, and a list of recently admitted guests.
Artists & venues

The two halves of a night that has to be booked.

An artist publishes a profile and says what they are open to. A venue claims its listing and takes requests. Communities find both.

  • Artists — genres, followers, a gallery, upcoming dates, and Open for Collaborations or Open for Residency when they are.
  • Venues — capacity, check-ins, regulars, what the place is known for, and a Request a booking button.
  • A recurring slot is a residency, and it holds its own sessions.
An artist profile in Avokindo for the band Rina & The Tide, showing a follower count, a Follow button, Open for Collaborations and Open for Residency labels, an About paragraph, a gallery and a list of upcoming dates.
A venue listing in Avokindo for The Loft, Zhongshan, showing its capacity and check-in count, tabs for Overview, Regulars, Your Visits, Communities and Events, what the venue is known for, its regulars, upcoming bookings and a Request a booking button.

Verification

Verification unlocks actions, not membership.

A new account starts unverified and stays that way until it reaches something that needs more. Here is the whole rule.

No check Open to anyone
  • Browse communities, events, artists and venues
  • Search what is near you
  • Hold a pass and get in at the door
  • Send and read messages
Step 1 — face scan A liveness check
  • Join or create a community
  • Create or manage an artist profile
  • Claim a venue
  • Check in at a venue
  • Add a profile photo
Step 2 — profile photo Photo checked against the scan
  • Post to a community feed
  • Comment
  • React
  • Show interest in a community event

The order is fixed: the photo is checked against the face scan, so the scan always comes first. Nothing in the app asks a browsing account to verify, and plenty of accounts never do.

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Find your community. Find your place. Find your audience. Find Your Kind, with Avokindo.