NEXTDOOR

For anyone looking for a taste of Nextdoor’s weirdest, silliest posts — from fireworks complaints to paranoid neighbors spying on each other — Jenn Takahashi’s @BestofNextdoor Twitter account has everything.

As of midway through 2021, Nextdoor said it had more than 69 million users.

Members pledge to reduce gender pay gaps by 60% in the group's first year of operation.

“Business owners and property owners don’t understand that they are responsible for other peoples’ safety...”

“I’ve seen reports like this for a long time ... It’s pretty disturbing,” Chris Matthews of Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation said.

Bill Gurley, a partner at venture firm Benchmark, told CNBC on Friday that Nextdoor's decision to go public through a SPAC was partly due to better pricing.

Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar discussed the company's plans to go public via a SPAC merger in a deal worth $4.3 billion.

Nextdoor teamed up with Moderna and Albertsons on a Covid-19 vaccine map. The map will allow users to locate vaccination sites and schedule an appointment.

It was first spotted Sunday, roaming around a neighborhood.

Nextdoor is a local social media app that acts as a digital public message board for neighborhoods where users can sell furniture, organize events and alert neighbors of danger. In the past year, monthly active users on Nextdoor grew 20 percent, according to Sensor Tower. It's provided neighbors and public agencies a platform to spread useful and important information during the pandemic. Unlike Citizen and Neighbors, Nextdoor is more than a crime-fighting app. It helps small businesses connect to their local customers and gain new customers with free business postings.

But it’s in these city and neighborhood groups where you might have noticed community members leaning on each other, so to speak. Maybe the note on community groups got you thinking of some good you’ve seen around town. Maybe you know of a friend -- or a friend of a friend -- spreading cheer or making masks or a beautiful grandparent-grandchild reunion that brought tears to your eyes. Perhaps you fixed up your house all spring and you think more people should see. Do you know of businesses, groups or individuals doing a little extra to help others?