A different kind of neighborhood app
An app for knowing your neighbors, not scrolling past them.
Nextdoor and Facebook Groups are built to keep you online. Grounded is built to get you offline, together, with the people actually around you.
Last updated June 20, 2026
Built for showing up, not scrolling
Nextdoor and Facebook Groups are engagement products - they're built to keep you looking at your phone. Grounded has no feed to optimize and no algorithm deciding what you see. The entire point is to get you offline, together.
A defined community, not an open forum
Nextdoor groups everyone within a rough radius, whether you know them or not. On Grounded, a community is something you formalize on purpose - you decide who's in it and what it's for, so it stays a group of people you actually trust.
Coordination, not just posts
Complaining about package theft is not community. Grounded is built around actually doing things together - lending and borrowing tools, running projects, and organizing events, not just a comment section.
Small and known, not citywide and anonymous
The bigger a Nextdoor feed gets, the more it feels like arguing with strangers. Grounded communities stay small enough that names and faces mean something, because that's what makes people show up when it matters.
What Grounded doesn't do
No public feed for the whole neighborhood to argue in. No ads. No algorithm deciding what you see. No incentive to keep you scrolling - the product isn't your attention, it's your community actually functioning.
If what you want is a place to vent about a barking dog, Nextdoor already does that well. If what you want is people who'd actually show up if something went wrong, that takes something built differently.