From Local to Global: How the Chimpers community used Little Atlas to run 9 IRL meet-ups in just a month!
From Local to Global: How the Chimpers community used Little Atlas to run 9 IRL meet-ups in just a month!
Read on to see how we’re helping Chimpers make their world feel just a little smaller.
Little Atlas is on a mission to help any online community come to life through IRL meet-ups - and our journey started just under 2 months ago, when we launched our community platform with one of the strongest NFT communities in the space - Chimpers!
In the last month, Chimpers members used our platform to self-organise and run 9 meet-ups across 8 countries! That’s over a 40x increase from before using our platform!
With one of the strongest online communities - fuelled by the relentless passion of the founding team, the incredible pixel art by Timpers and the strongest partnerships in the space - including their partnership with Paramount and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, we were excited to help Chimpers realise their vision of a global community that comes together IRL, united by their love for the project and brand.
Read on to see how we’re helping Chimpers make their world feel just a little smaller.
Web3 communities are constantly looking for new ways to feel more connected, but building engagement online can be incredibly challenging - especially in a bear market!
What makes it worse are today’s community platforms, which often hurt rather than help when it comes to fostering deep connections - bombarding users with notifications that quickly get disabled, causing members to miss all of the exciting activities that community managers work so hard to bring to the table.
At Little Atlas, we see an opportunity to show communities that their online frens might be just around the corner - by helping communities find meaningful connection through meet-ups, hang-outs and other IRL activities, at global scale, all whilst respecting our users’ time and attention - which we believe is most precious in a world full of distraction.
Our platform works by creating a token-gated space where communities map themselves on top of an interactive globe, creating a unique opportunity for the members to self-organise into local meetup groups - we call this the Community Map.
In just a few weeks, Chimpers used their Community Map to help over 500 members find their local neighbours! Anyone on the map can see other nearby holders, using our platform to connect with neighbours from their community. We care deeply about our users’ privacy, and Community Map only collects regional information for community members - such as city and country.
It turns out that the Chimpers community has spread to every corner of the world! London, LA, Singapore, New York, Toronto, Hong Kong and Taipei each have at least 10 Chimpers holders - and those are just the holders that are on our platform, there are even more Chimpers holders which we will engage with time!
After claiming their spot on the map, a handful of Chimpers members stepped up to the challenge to organise local meet-ups and claim the title of Champion! Anyone who runs a local meetup for their community on Little Atlas can become a Champion, and earn rewards for bringing their community together.
Whether it’s dinner, drinks, a conference meet-up or any other casual hangout - Champions pitch the idea to the community, lock in a date and venue and run the event - all whilst getting support from the community managers and wider project team.
We provide a suite of tools that make it really easy for a Champion to throw a meetup! Events can be created by any community member in seconds - with branded graphics, social event pages and chat built-in to help coordinate and pick an activity.
Once an event is approved, we email every community member in the area to get their RSVPs and make sure nobody misses out on the fun!
We want to make every community meet-up on our platform feel special! That’s why we work with event planning and branded merch partners to help our communities ship merch for Champions to hand out at their events, and even plan larger-scale activations for conferences! So far we’ve managed to deliver custom limited edition t-shirts (with incredible regional art by Timpers himself!) to meet-ups in Chiang Mai, London and Hong Kong!
We’ve been really excited to watch Champions throw amazing local meet-ups for their community, and we are now looking for ways to make organising meet-ups even easier - empowering even more members to step up, organise a meet-up and Champion local communities for their favourite NFT project or DAO.
We’re going to keep shipping improvements to Community Map with the goal of having regular monthly meet-ups happening across a dozen cities for each one of our communities - at which point we will scale to bring Little Atlas to every community in web3 and beyond!
Our team is excited to bring our passion for web3 with our extensive experience in web2 (from Google, Amazon, YouTube, GitHub, Improbable and others) to build the digital passport for the Internet.
We’ll be slowly onboarding more NFT communities and DAOs over the next couple of months - including some of the biggest and most active in this space, such as ZenAcademy and Random Character Collective. Keep your eyes peeled for more announcements coming soon :)
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From Local to Global: How the Chimpers community used Little Atlas to run 9 IRL meet-ups in just a month!
love to see it! well done to both you guys and the Chimpers community🚀