About
We stopped waiting
for institutions.
So we built the infrastructure students were missing.
What HIVE is
HIVEisn'tasocialappyoucheck.It'sasystem:apermanent,structuredhomeforstudentcommunitiestoexist,organize,andpersistovertime.
Universitieshavehundredsofstudentgroups,butnosharedoperatinglayer.InformationisscatteredacrossGroupMethreadsthatdie,Drivefoldersnooneinherits,andlegacyplatformsbuiltforadministration—notstudents.
Theresultisn'talackofactivity.It'salackofcontinuity.Everyyear,leadershipresets.Knowledgedisappears.Groupsrebuildfromscratch.
HIVEwasbuilttofixthat.EachorganizationgetsaSpace:adurableenvironmentthatdoesn'tvanishwhenofficersgraduate.
“The feed isn't the product.
The Space is.
Legibility, memory, and ownership are.”
Why it took two years
Ididn'tstartthisalone.TwoyearsagoIhadateam.Goodpeoplewhosawthesameproblemandwantedtofixit.We'dsitinO'Brianbasement,inemptyclassroomsafterhours,tryingtofigurethisthingout.
Honestly? We spent more time planning than building. We thought if we just got the strategy right, everything would fall into place. It didn't work out the way we planned.
Eventuallytheteammovedontotheirownpaths,butthevisionstuckwithme.SoIdecidedtobuilditmyself.NotbecauseIthoughtIcoulddoitbetter—butbecausesomeonehadtoactuallyshipsomething.
Twoyearsofnightsandweekends.StretcheswhereIdidn'ttouchitforweeks.Othertimesupuntil3ambecauseIwasclosetofiguringsomethingout.Mostlyslow.Invisibleprogress.
The thing is finally at a point where other people can use it. If you do use it, tell me what sucks. I've been building this in isolation too long. I need the feedback loop.
— Jacob
Spaces are being claimed. Tools are being built. What happens next is up to the students who show up.
The builders inherit
what comes next.
Infrastructure-grade. Student-owned. Already shipping.