Kuende

Social network space is extremely competitive already filled with major growing players. They are also developing gamification technology (and other techs) with much bigger budgets. So I doubt that this idea could grow as a successful business there. It is sure not enough to state that your project is "a combination of Facebook" etc. One needs to convince that can successfully compete or partner with them. And business planning info is missing in the WP.

Very commercial product, and the team has got pretty good funding to boot. Seems like a good application of blockchain. Will be following this project closely

Social media is a massive industry. Not only that, this company has already been seeded by $2.6million which is pretty good considering most projects start off as a whitepaper project but this already had previous investors in it.

Excellent team with very big staff and wide experience. It is visible that there is all necessary, but the idea old, not unique and I personally saw a set of projects with the similar ideas. To become real leaders of an industry huge resources, and return of investments into it will be required by a big question. Chances of course are, but I so far not really trust in it.

Great team with a domain expertise.
Liked the whitepaper and vision of gamifying and social media but this is not the first platform doing it. Yet, social media platform is huge so there is a chance some innovation happens through blockchain.
[Update] Product++ after hearing from CEO.
I kept 3 initial because of the competitive market but realised their product is well ahead of others.

This project challenges the industry that has already saturated.
Better teams and better innovative ideas are required.
The team seems to be better, but the idea is not innovative.
Despite the presence of MVP, the price difference between softcap and hardcap is large, but it seems there is no rational explanation.

Philanthropic challenges are a wonderful way to nurture a sense of trust and community. They gather users around social, cultural, political or environmental issues. And, they allow users to feel what it’s like to make a difference in their community.
It is interesting to monitor how the project will develop. Unfortunately there isn't MVP yet. The team and advisors are very strong.

Not a unique idea at all I would say, but the team looks solid and experienced. They will face a lot of competition and I am not sure if they will be able to deliver a good ROI to investors.

Love this idea. Shame the video seems to be down, it's not working. Great team. Solid whitepaper. I see this as a unique winner. Getting people off their screens to meet in real life is essential in an ever-increasing digital world.

This project has potential... It will be challenging because of the social space is crowded. The team is strong and I love the vision of eliminating the dark side of social media which is social isolation. The gamfication aspect of doing that along with taking queues from competitors like meetup and improving on them. The fact that they have received 2.6 million in funding is a positive sign as well. Its going to be challenging but I hope they can pull it off. In general in this market all ICOs are very risky at this point and if you invest there is a good chance that your investment will fall once the token begins trading.

This is not financial advice or a recommendation to invest in this or any other ICO. Investors must perform their own due diligence and not rely on external ratings to make their final investment decisions. ICOs are risky and 100% loss of capital is possible.

Idea is nothing new but the team has some solid backing by crypto funds which is a differentiator between them and competitors. This is a project to watch and see how the product develops and how they plan to compete or collaborate with existing social media networks

The social media landscape is already a highly saturated market. It is going to be incredibly difficult if not impossible to convince users to switch to a new platform. The team is highly experienced with a huge staff. Business plan needs to be provided in the whitepaper.

I like the concept of Kuende and it got a very good seed and pre seed funding round. I think Kuende has potential to be a viral app and have steady fast growth from there. Social engagement together with gamification and monetization always sounds interesting but it is also a challenge too.
There is a very experienced team & advisory board that can it become the next social platform. Good luck team!

I first viewed the video and understood nothing about the product. I mean yes, it's a nice voice, very cliche images, etc. But actually, nothing about how the product works, what it really solves, etc. I then visited the website and started understanding what everything is about. Well, in the end, it's still a social network and its' success still depends on how sticked to the screen you will be.
The team seems experienced, I admire the way they communicate themselves, meaning they have good PR. Good PR doesn't mean good product. I see nothing revolutionary or unseen in the blockchain environment. About one year ago this project might have been extremely successful. Today, I'm not that sure.

I must say I am impressed with the team and the project has real potential. I have read about previous ideas that tackle the same story line but none of them has succeeded. I have my doubts with regards to the business model but social engagement combined with gamified challenges can prove me wrong. Best of luck!

Me personally I don't give 5,5,5 ratings on ICOs, but this time is another story. First of all, team is super good one with ex-workes from Google, Twitter and other ones. Advisors are also well known professionals. Secondly, they have LIVE demo product with 100K active members. Thirdly, they cloased softcap with private investors and big partners. Lastly, jurisdiction is in Switzerlad. What can I add more to this? Well done!

Not the first ICO with such a concept, however, they have a different approach to it and I am curious to see how will they put it into action.

And finally, I see a well balanced team. Good luck!

Team is really good big team always push any ico..... vision is good but not innovative ... as there are major players in this industry and fighting with them is a big deal ... you have to be strong in marketing, finance user experience department to fight for your dreams... best of luck.

A strong team that could steer the vision but Im on the fence if it will get the adoption. The fact 2.6m was raised early, I do question the need for ICO. Especially considering the big variance in the soft cap of 2m vs 17m hardcap. Funding could be raised by other means. Investors don’t really have an accurate indication of what to expect as an ROI potential.

Kuende is aiming to be a social media solution integrating online social platform features and real-world gamified content. The platform will offer different rewards to users, for creating challenges and participating in contests. They're aiming to bring us back to using social media for what it should be used for: getting closer together, instead of distancing ourselves from others. However, is this platform the solution to do so?

The team behind Kuende is very big and experienced in financing, business development, managing and the blockchain and crypto industry as well. The team has established partnerships with IPSX and with OneQube so far, but I feel a lot more are needed to get a decent word out for the platform. There have been more social media networks using blockchain technologie before and most of them could not establish a big enough user base to make the platform succeed.

Kuende already has fully functional and robust desktop and mobile apps. They have been in operation since 2016, unveiling their alpha apps for iOS and Android. In 2017 they released their beta builds for the mobile apps. According to the team they already have more than 60.000 users, and more joining everyday.

They have already reached their softcap of ~2.5M, but are aiming for a total of $17.8M (hardcap), with only 50% of the tokens available for the market. That would mean they see themselves as a $35M company, which I find too exaggerated.

Looking at their roadmap they are aiming to have the platform with all it's built-ins live in 2020, which is still pretty far away. I think 2019 holds the most for users (e.g. challenges and more) - so we will have to wait whether they have an established user base by then.

VISION: An idea that is not unique and will certainly face large competition from other companies. I am unconvinced that a blockchain solution which requires users to manage a virtual token will incentivise people to socialise more offline. Other concerns include current industry leaders that develop this utility will have considerable advantages. 2/5

TEAM: A strong and experienced team that includes developers and multiple specialists. 4/5

PRODUCT: The white paper is very clear on the process though the sections for voting for a challenge seem particularly binary where I believe that a degree of flexibility is required when planning challenges. It is encoruaging to see an MVP though the real test will be acquiring a strong network. 3/5

This is not an invitation to invest. ICOs are risky and you can lose everything you put in.

I enjoyed going through the documentation of Kuende. The White Paper was investor-friendly and I could explore more about their vision and product they want to launch.

Balanced team and MVP available. Looks good.

What impressed me the most about this ICO is the fact that they have a working platform with an earning system that incentivizes users to engage with content on the platform. It is evident that they have put time and money into development and intend on following through on the vision. Having said that, it is hard to fully grasp the enhanced offline experience that they are promising without seeing it in action. There are definitely other player in this space, but the biggest factor to determine the success of this project is execution and user adoption. If they are able to foster a community of active users in the same way that sites like meetup.com have been able to identify geo-specific groups, this can be a successful project. Not an original idea by any means, but it puts a unique twist on social media.

Interesting idea in general. Giving social networks these new aspects (e.g. challenges) could be interesting and hit a nerve in todays youth culture. But this is a platform game and it will be difficult to win the users. They state sth. around 94k users but don’t provide more detailed usage numbers (like DAU etc).
So what they will probably need is to have a clever marketing strategy to create viral user growth to reach user numbers that enable the creation of a real community. But the teams looks solid so I think they will come up with some good ideas

You can provide great products with a great team and from an idea which is not unique. HAving a unique product can be an advantage but having a product which is not unique but used commonly with a different approach is also welcome and can be a good product. So my product point is 4 for that reason to product. I believe that a crowded and experienced team provides a perfect vision on project, so summarized sentences and whitepaper is appreciated but I see a great potential on team about vision of project so I have hope about that. This is the explanation of 4 point for the vision. After all words about team I spent , there is nothing to say . But my last sentence is : Team is perfect so 5 points goes to Kuende for the team