BreakDiving.io

Modern social media connects people, but with a focus on shareholders, and not on the users. 

Our main program is a new worldwide online not-for-profit social media community at breakdiving.io (already live), where our only mission is increasing our members' success, happiness, and friendships.

We currently have members in 83 countries. Most hail from less
developed nations such as Nigeria, Philippines, Ethiopia, China,
Pakistan, India, etc. though we have members in first-world nations as
well. We have members from every race, ethnicity, gender, sexual
orientation, age, etc.

Too many people suffer from depression, doubt, bullying, and confusion

with life. Our community, and its amazing members worldwide, aims to
solve all that. How? We help our members pursue and get certified in
`dives` (i.e. life accomplishments) and we help them find new friends
around the world pursuing the same dreams.

I myself am an Iraq war vet with PTSD. I also have a PhD in

psychology. Finally, I also have big dreams, but sometimes feel lonely,
and often depressed. I decided that modern social media was not doing
enough to improve the lives of its members. Break Diving is different.
We have an application process. You must agree to live by our
"Break Diver`s Creed". You must agree to never be
mean or rude to other members; never to bully or insult; and most
importantly: you must agree to pursue your dreams with a passion and
help others do the same. All of our members are those who have big
dreams, but very little support.We encourage our members to share when they are sad, lonely, discouraged, beaten down, or just feeling blue, so that we can be there for them. We are, as many of our members declare, an awesome worldwide inspiring family.

As mentioned above, we have members in over 83 countries, and growing.  We are working with them to determine precisely what they want from the community, and as requests are made that align with our mission, we build out that functionality. 

Our solution is live: breakdiving.io    We built this using Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, PostGreSQL, Bootstrap, jQuery, Javascript, Redis, and Heroku.  We are investigating React, Vue, and Angular.

We continue to improve the community each week, not only launching new features, but also conducting monthly live online video meetings with members from around the world.  Our mission, bottom line, is to help people find the support, encouragement, inspiration, education, and friendship they need to take their big ideas and make them into realities.