Mehfyl is a social platform built only for students. General social apps are noisy and open to everyone, which makes it hard for students to find events and people who actually share their interests. Mehfyl set out to give students a space of their own.
Mehfyl: a social platform for students
A student-exclusive platform for events, plans and trips. Its 2023 pilot ran at 8 universities in Pakistan, with about 300 daily active users at each.
Challenge
Students wanted an easier way to find events, make plans with people who share their interests, and organize group trips, without the noise of general social apps.
Solution
Sprout built a student-exclusive platform with university-verified accounts, interest-based event discovery, group planning, and travel cost splitting.
Result
The 2023 pilot ran at about 8 universities across Pakistan, with around 300 daily active users per university. Mehfyl is now pivoting from micro-events to community building around specific niches.
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Background
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What we built
Sprout built the platform full stack, with university-verified accounts so the community stays student-only. Students can discover events by interest, create their own, build circles of like-minded people, and split travel costs when they plan trips together.
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Outcome
Mehfyl piloted in 2023 at about 8 universities across Pakistan and reached around 300 daily active users at each. What the pilot showed is shaping the next version: Mehfyl is pivoting from a micro-event platform to community building around more specific niches, on the same verified, student-only foundation.
Our pilot ran at eight universities with around 300 students a day at each. Sprout shipped it as a real product, not a prototype, and that is what made the pilot worth learning from.
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