“Tu vens” is an invitation, literally meaning “You come” in Portuguese.
There are many ways to participate and contribute to the communities that form around shared passions
Tuvens.com is a platform architected and built for real communities and sharing economies.
“Tu vens” is an invitation, literally meaning “You come” in Portuguese.
There are many ways to participate and contribute to the communities that form around shared passions
Tuvens.com is a platform architected and built for real communities and sharing economies.
We have an ambitious goal: to redefine the concept of an online social network, to build a platform that is designed to bring people together in physical spaces. A real social network should work for real communities, to make it easier for you to pursue your passions and connect with each other.
The digital world is a bridge, not a destination.
Social networks and social media companies earn their money through advertising. That means their financial incentive is to make you look at your screen as much as possible. On the bus, in your car, during work, while eating and before and after you go to sleep.
In order to achieve this they have recruited engineers and psychologists from the machine gambling industry. When you use social media apps and websites you are playing a slot machine, except that what you are giving to the machine is your time & attention, not a coin. They get the coin from the advertiser.
Social media apps and websites are designed to be addictive, and like smoking or gambling they can have serious negative effects.
Because the representations of ourselves on social media are always positive, we all collectively create a false or aspirational reality that we can never live up to in our real lives.
And because of this, on top of its addictive nature, daily use of social media has been linked to high levels of depression and anxiety. In fact, according to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, “people who spend the most time on social media are twice as likely to feel socially isolated”.
Tuvens is designed to help interest & activity-based communities, including dance communities, yoga, martial arts, cycling, poker, sports, etc… to connect and develop deeper relationships.
By using semantic tags (#tags) and endorsements from peers, the same mechanism as LinkedIn uses to exhibit a person’s professional skills and experience, we collect & exhibit your interests. We then use these endorsements to curate your content and match you with people in your communities, whether you are searching for events, accommodation or people to rideshare with.
Tuvens is designed to help interest & activity-based communities, including dance communities, yoga, martial arts, cycling, poker, sports, etc… to connect and develop deeper relationships.
By using semantic tags (#hashtags) and endorsements from peers, the same mechanism as LinkedIn uses to exhibit a person’s professional skills and experience, we collect & exhibit your interests. We then use these endorsements to curate your content and match you with people in your communities, whether you are searching for events, accommodation or people to rideshare with.
Online privacy is complicated, and annoying. According to the lawyers of major social media websites you have no privacy. As soon as you sign up and post on their social networks you forfeit all right to privacy as it relates to the content you publish, or that which your friends publish about you.
But privacy matters.
Social media companies can claim that they care about your privacy by giving you massive granular control over which other users can see your profile, your content or who can contact you. But the deceit is that by providing a large array of privacy controls they also make it complex and too difficult to manage.
On Tuvens, privacy is simple and intuitive.
On top of the usual friendship relationships, members set their openness to the communities they are a part of on a scale of 1 – 5. Our algorithm then decides who can see your profile or contact you based upon whether they are in or out of your communities. You can be strictly private, or open, in general, or set your privacy differently for different communities. After all, that is how privacy works in real life. Communities are nothing more than a group of people who trust each other, and by being open to a community you are trusting the members.
And the best bit is this…
We will never collect more information about you than is required for the normal function of your account. Because we’re not advertising driven, we don’t need to be invasive.
Find all you need to pursue your passion and do something you love together with like-minded folks. Tuvens helps you find friends, events, accommodation and even transport to get there.
On every event page we will give you everything you need to evaluate the events quickly, and provide accommodation and transport options to help you get there. Our goal is to provide the definitive event guide online.
Opening your home to a stranger requires a lot of trust. Couchsurfing.org was a powerful force in the early environment of social networking, but as it grew it failed to provide ways for people to decide who they were comfortable and uncomfortable hosting. Therefore, after a few years hosts on couchsurfing started to receive far more requests than they could handle and this drove the best hosts off the platform.
The spirit of couchsurfing spread to Facebook groups and other niche community platforms, like warmshowers.org, and spawned major startups like Airbnb and Blablacar.
Tuvens is the platform Couchsurfing should have evolved into. By allowing hosts to pre-filter who is allowed to see their profile and contact them Tuvens opens the door for many more people to host and travel within their own tribes.
Wondering whether there is someone else driving to that festival next weekend you could hitch a ride with? Or wanted to rent a car but share the cost with someone else going the same direction?
Ridesharing is a massive trend, but without being able to pre-filter who can contact you most people will not take the risk of sitting in a car for 3 hours with someone they have nothing in common with.
Tuvens takes ridesharing to the next level by matching people by interest.
Sell your tickets directly or use our ticket management system to allow people to RSVP for your free events.