Making Your World Feel Small Again

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Making Your World Feel Small Again

We created Yik Yak to help you connect with the people right around you, whether you know them or not. Whether it’s a partner to tackle that impossible chem set with or just a crew to hang with, having authentic connections with the people right around you is a key part of feeling at home in your community. Since the start, we’ve been building Yik Yak to help empower these local connections – and today, we’re adding a bunch of features (and giving the app a fresh new look!) to match your fresh new start to the school year. Let’s take a quick tour!

 

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Introducing Profiles

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Introducing Profiles

How many times have you come across a truly laugh-out-loud yak and wished you knew more about the witty Yakker who posted it? Noticed someone in your community who consistently shares spot-on tips for the best grub in town and wanted to know more about your fellow foodie neighbor? 

From the beginning, our goal has always been to help you connect with the people around you, whether you know them or not. As your herds have grown, we’ve been adding features like handles and chat to help you build even more tightly-knit communities.

Today, we’re excited to introduce our newest feature – profiles! – as yet another way to help you develop great local connections.

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Introducing Handles!

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Introducing Handles!

Yik Yak is all about building location-based communities to make the world feel small again — and this means helping you develop real, authentic connections with the people around you.

Whether you need help finding a lost pet, want to rally support for a local fundraiser, or just want to motivate your herd during finals by sharing random facts about pandas, we’ve seen communities come together in some truly amazing ways. With Yik Yak, you can have these conversations with anyone and everyone in your herd, whether you know them or not – but now, we’re introducing a new way for you to also establish your unique voice in your community.

Today, we're introducing handles on Yik Yak.

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Making The World Feel Small Again

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Making The World Feel Small Again

It’s been an amazing journey since Brooks and I began building an app to let you instantly speak with those right around you, and we’re stoked to be here with you as y’all head back to campus. Thanks to you, Yik Yak has expanded across college campuses in the US and is quickly making its way into cities and universities around the world. It’s almost hard to believe at one point you couldn’t vote or reply on yaks, peek into other locations, or post a photo on Yik Yak! But even as we look back at how much the app has evolved, there’s still so much we want to do – all with the core goal of connecting you with the community around you.

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