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LASSOH ...bringing social back to the world

The do everything social network, empowering users, communities and businesses.

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LASSOH ...bringing social back to the world

LASSOH ...bringing social back to the world

LASSOH ...bringing social back to the world

LASSOH ...bringing social back to the world

LASSOH ...bringing social back to the world

The do everything social network, empowering users, communities and businesses.

The do everything social network, empowering users, communities and businesses.

The do everything social network, empowering users, communities and businesses.

The do everything social network, empowering users, communities and businesses.

Jason Kim
Jason Kim
Jason Kim
Jason Kim
1 Campaign |
Toronto, Canada
$1,592 USD 10 backers
3% of $50,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal



We’ve built the apps for Android and iPhone.  Now we need your help to get to the next level. 

A small group of committed programmers have developed a compelling social networking application that lets users and businesses connect with places and people in a way that conventional social networks cannot.  

With your help, our goal for this first year is to build a vibrant base of users committed to exploring the possibilities of our application in various areas of contemporary life.

In return for your contribution, you will have the opportunity to be one of the first users to register a unique username on our network before we open it to the general public.   Your username on Lassoh is your calling card, your nickname, your brand, your cause, your marketing slogan.  

Unlike other usernames, you can transfer and sell your Lassoh username and the account to anyone you please. So as our network grows in the coming months and years, so will the value of the name you’ve chosen to register today.    


Imagine being able to reach out and talk to people in a particular neighborhood or district.  Imagine being able to walk down the street and see what patrons are saying about a new restaurant or what events are going on in that part of your city without having to search for this information on a website.  Imagine talking to people at world changing events and becoming part of the conversation with the press of a finger on a map.  Imagine searching for content from a map to see what people are doing in other parts of your city or the world. 

Lassoh is more than just a network to meet and communicate with people. Our application is a way for you to create contexts which you can use for a wide variety purposes, propelled by your imagination. 

·  Meet people locally, form groups of any kind.   

·  Buy, sell, rent, and barter

·  Report and discover news stories. 

·  Post discussion topics, start petitions, poll users. 

·  Advertise a garage sale locally.  

Lassoh is the do everything social network, designed by you, for you, connecting you with real-world communities.

It is not, in other words, designed for a single purpose but rather, it is a new way of interacting with people and places.   How you use the network is limited only by your imagination.


Lassoh has a very unique approach to its usernames that we think you'll appreciate.  We looked at the social networking landscape and saw how users were committing an enormous amount of time and energy building up their SNS accounts professionally for their businesses, yet were unable to take advantage of the underlying value of this investment. 

We decided to give our users the opportunity to capitalize on the goodwill they create in their accounts through their hard work.  The account you start on Lassoh, with all the customers and clients that follow you, is yours to own, sell, and transfer alongside your business, much as you would your intellectual property and your brand. 

Free or Paid

On the Lassoh network, users have the option of registering either a "free" or "paid" username.  The difference between the two is that the "paid" username can be transferred and resold through our system from one user to another, while a "free" username cannot.  The username you register through Indiegogo is a "paid" username.  We will open the network to "free" username users in the coming weeks. 

The "paid" username option is not a promotional gimmick.  The initial cost of the purchase is necessary in order to discourage users from squatting on "free" usernames for the purpose of holding them for resale, which would ultimately make it difficult to maintain a viable market of usernames and allow users to transfer and sell their accounts. 


We are U.S. Patent Pending


By registering a username, you will be one of the first to go on our network and explore our network. 

·  The username can be between 2 – 25 characters in length.

·  You will be able to transfer and sell this username at your discretion to the highest bidder. 

·  You can register up to 10 usernames to a single email account. 

·  On our network, users search hashtag terms and usernames at the same time.  In effect, a unique username is like owning a hashtag term. 

·  Once you own it, it’s yours forever.  There are no annual fees to maintain the ownership of your 


The Lassoh T-Shirts – All cotton T’s that come in small, medium and large sizes. 


Our Cowboy Hats – 100% wool felt Stetson cowboy hats in two colors. 



Your contributions help us keep developing and gain traction in our market.  Your funding goes directly to the talented programmers we've hired to develop and enhance features for the app to create a more seamless Lassoh experience. The funding also helps pay for our servers and traffic, the monitoring of our network and the preparation for the internationalization of the Lassoh community. 

In particular, we are prioritizing two critical features on our app—the feed list and map search. 

To expand the variety of ways the application can be used, we will enhance the functionality of the feed list by allowing our users to add and remove feeds from their list.  This way the user will be able to select from potentially hundreds of different feed categories and sub-categories.  To suggest a feed category idea, you can send it to us at feedlist@lassoh.com.


The next step in the development of our map search feature will be to allow users to search and open lassohs directly from the map interface.   We will also add a search field to the map display from which users will be able to search for specific posts by term, category and geographical area. 



For much of the past two decades, network technologies have taken the social experience and transformed it into an impersonal, vacuous and fragmented exchange of information.  We’ve driven it onto a screen and removed it from the local spaces we inhabit.  At the same time, the bonds that once held us together frayed against the onslaught of urban sprawl, the superstore and economic decline.  

Our mission here is to use the same network technologies to re-integrate the social experience back into our neighbourhoods and our streets, between local residents and the shops and services owned and operated by individuals invested in their communities.  We want our network to be a public forum where people can re-imagine these bonds, to build stronger civic networks, revitalize local economies and stimulate a greater diversity of social experiences. 


You can read this or you can register a username and try it out for yourself.  Of course, you can also wait till our campaign is over and register a free account. 


Lassoh

A location-specific text/media message that allows people in a particular area to join and form geosocial groups.

Opt-in Zone

An opt-in zone is a geographically defined area that is assigned to a micropost.  It determines which users on the network are eligible to join and participate in the micropost.

Feed

Each micropost must be uploaded to a feed or posting category.  The various feeds are displayed in a feed list.

Moo

A moo is a response posted to the lassoh by a user that has opted-into a micropost either by posting text or a photo.

Twirl

This posting option allows the user to extend invitations to his “partners” and “posse.”

Private Lassoh

A private lassoh is a micropost that requires a password for the user

Bazoo

Using the bazoo feature, you can block another individual’s content from ever being displayed in your account or seeing your posts. 

Turf

The author of a micropost can remove a user from the group simply by “turfing” them from the micropost.  Once a user has been “turfed,” he is blocked from joining the post again.

Map Search

Using google maps, this feature allows the user to pinpoint a location and download content from that proximity.


Lassoh Inc. is committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personal information. To this end, we have drafted a comprehensive Privacy Policy that outlines how we collect, use and disclose your personal information.

We promise that:

1.  Your location information will never be collected by us for the purpose of selling it to a third party.

2.  Your location information is only disclosed to us when you request data from our network. At no time do we determine your location without your consent.

3.  Your personal information and content, including searches and statements you have made, photos you have viewed or shared, and information on users you have interacted with, will not be collected by us for the purpose of selling this information or data to a third party.

4.  We do store your data and information, but only to protect you and our users, ensure an enjoyable experience using the application and to comply with all applicable law.

5.  You will be able to easily remove your content from our network at your discretion.

For more information on our privacy practices, we encourage you to read through our Privacy Policy or contact us at privacy@lassoh.com





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Choose your Perk

Dudes and Dudettes

$10 USD
You will receive updates for our project, our thanks and the good karma of helping our network develop into something special.
0 claimed

Dude with a Lassoh T-shirt

$35 USD
With this perk, you will receive one of our t-shirts and that good feeling that comes with knowing that you played a part in helping us out. The shirts come in small, medium and large. (Please add $5 for international shipping)
1 claimed

Early Adopter

$50 USD
Tired of signing up for apps and websites and never getting the username you want. You can register a unique username to our network with this perk. This is a perk with a future as you will be able to transfer and sell this username right through our network.
3 claimed

That's My Hat

$70 USD
Just want the green hat? Admittedly, not your typical cowboy hat, but a limited edition nonetheless. Only 300 will ever be made available. 100% Australia wool felt. Comes in three sizes, 57 cm, 59 cm and 61 cm.
0 out of 300 of claimed

Midnight Cowboy

$100 USD
With this perk, you will receive a username and a tan colored Lassoh cowboy hat. 100% Australia wool felt. Comes in three sizes, 57 cm, 59 cm and 61 cm.
0 claimed

Prospector

$200 USD
Think our network has a chance to be something special? This perk package lets you register 5 unique usernames, which can be managed from the same email account. We’ll throw in a tan cowboy hat for good measure.
0 claimed

Riverboat Gambler

$350 USD
Get ahead of the herd and register up to 10 usernames. And of course you’ll get our tan cowboy hat. 100% Australia wool felt. Comes in three size, 57 cm, 59 cm and 61 cm.
4 claimed

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