[Problem]
The Social Queer is a Seattle-born, lesbian-founded community that needed a home of its own: a social platform for queer life beyond the feed, where people find irl events, connect with each other, and join as members without depending on a social media algorithm.
[Approach]
- 01Built the public platform around the community's own voice and photos: irl events with a shared calendar, Classifieds, a catalog, Who We Are, and Where We Stand.
- 02Created member accounts, the First 100 founding membership, and a shop, so joining and supporting the community happen in one owned place.
- 03Gave the founders a private team space with meetings, mail, hosting tools, safety review, and a site editor, so they can run events and change the site themselves.
- 04Made it installable as a phone app with branded link previews for sharing events.
[Outcome]
A finished client build live at thesocialqueer.com: a community platform and team workspace the founders run on their own.
