Dear Jodeler,
We hope you are finally enjoying the summer as much as we are.
Here at Jodel we have used all these rainy days to work on new features that make connecting with the student community around you even easier and faster.
You have a lot to look forward to this fall.
Today, we would like to introduce you to Jodel embedding.
This next thing coming out of the orange raccoon’s factory lets you embed Jodels in your articles, blog posts or just in about any website.
This is how it works: Start by tapping on the Share button on any Jodel post and proceed to share via e-mail or any application you can open from your desktop.
From the web view, tap “Embed this post”. Now copy the code and adjust height and width to fit your need. Lastly, paste the code into your website and you are good to go.
Instead of taking screenshots, embedding allows you to present both text or picture Jodels in a much better-looking design. You can also adjust the size of the embedded Jodels directly from the link. Your readers are now able to view a Jodel and then read its whole conversation by clicking the “Read this Jodel” button or by simply clicking on the comments.
Lately, we have seen many more local Jodel stories to make national and international news headlines. That is why we hope Jodel embedding will help everyone who wants to share a popular story from their city with a broader audience.
Barbora & the Jodel team
Aug 10, 2017
Beloved Jodeler,
Sometimes we get asked what the hell we’re doing all day long ⛱. Among other fun things like jodeling all day long, we take care of financing our app. Believe it or not, this whole thing costs money. And as we are 100% dedicated to improving the experience on Jodel, we partner up with investors that currently finance our daily joy on Jodel.
Now - two and a half years after launching Jodel - we are happy to announce that new partners support us with their love and expertise (and also €6M in capital 💰) in our mission: to let you instantly engage with the community around you.
Let us introduce you to those that are from now on to be praised in every boring Monday-morning lecture:
Firstly, the Silicon-Valley-based Floodgate team, whose former investments include Twitter, Twitch, and Lyft. Our partner Ryan is a former Techno DJ and Berghain regular 🏢 who is looking forward to finally having a Berlin based company in his portfolio.
Secondly, Adam d’Angelo: CEO/founder of the knowledge platform Quora and former CTO of a social network called Facebook. Info to our most ambitious Jodelers: We do not give out his Kik account.
Thirdly, the Kima Ventures team that after investing in Zenly and Yellow sees no ceiling in Mobile Local Social. For further investment opportunities, we’d like to propose the following ventures: https://youtu.be/J-GVd_HLlps.
Last but not least, we also enjoy continuous support in this financing round from our previous partners: Rubylight, Global Founders Capital, and Atlantic Labs.
So how will our journey continue after this?
We are committed to developing a platform to discover, follow and participate in the most relevant conversations with people nearby. We will continue to roll-out features around that vision to create the locally most relevant and harmonical experience on our platform.
We will keep spreading the joy of jodeling to continue to grow our community internationally. If you have non-Jodeler friends, invite five of them to download and use Jodel. We might send you a coupon. Thank you.
Also, we are hiring! Check our openings on our jobs page or apply if you have serious experience in coding, growing, building or designing a community app by sending us your CV to jobs@jodel.com.
Last but not least, we’d like to thank all you passionate Jodelers out there that are building the great community we all enjoy. Since we’re just getting started, keep collecting Karma, and we promise something good will happen 🔮
Smile and enjoy the ride! 🏄
Tim & the Jodel team
Jun 14, 2017