Short posts that carry media
500 characters with multi-photo, GIF, and 60s video attachments — or a 2–4 option poll when you want votes. Edit your own anytime, thread replies below.
- 500 chars
- multi-photo / GIF / video
- 2–4 option polls
- edit + threads
New · Articles, Analytics & Verification live
Campus life,
in one live feed.
Find students by college, course, and year. Post 500-character updates with photos, GIFs, short video, or 2–4 option polls — then go long with 50k Markdown articles. Likes, replies, reposts, hashtags, and realtime notifications included.
Free to join · OTP-verified email · Private accounts + block/report
- chars per post
- 500
- chars per post
- article body
- 50k
- article body
- insights range
- 24h
- insights range
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Priya✓· 2m
Hackathon team formation tonight? Need one design + one backend. #BuildNight @arjun_ece
Poll · ends in 1d
I can design68%
I can backend32%
24 12
Article · @sana_des/placement-notesPlacement notes: 30 days of DSAWhat actually worked — sheets, mocks, and revision loops. 12 min read with code blocks.Read article
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2.4k students onlineHow it works
The whole loop, in four steps.
01
Discover students
Directory + search across students, posts, and colleges — plus suggestions, hashtag feeds, trending, and college member lists.
02
Follow your people
Classmates, seniors, hackathon teammates. Private accounts use follow requests; Following + Discovery tabs stay chronological.
03
Post short or go long
500-char updates with photos, GIFs, 60s video, or polls. Need depth? Publish a 50k Markdown article at @you/slug.
04
Interact, measure, get verified
Like, reply, repost, bookmark — live over SSE + push. Authors get 24h/7d insights; 50 posts or 100 followers unlocks verification.
What ships today
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
The core loop is live — discover, follow, post, interact — plus the creator layer the codebase already runs: long-form articles, per-author insights, and merit verification.
Go long when it matters
Placement notes, hackathon writeups, club guides — title + 50k Markdown body at @you/slug, with ${you/slug} mentions anywhere and a reader built for code.
- @you/slug URLs
- ${you/slug} embeds
- code + tables
- separate tab
Author analytics
Deduped views per post, 24h / 7d overview, and top-5 by views. Only you see your reach.
Merit verification
50+ posts or 100+ followers to apply. Blue tick reviewed by admins, 7-day re-appeal cooldown.
Colleges + discovery
College pages with members and college-only feeds. Suggestions, Following + Discovery tabs, full-text search.
Hashtags + mentions
Tags and @mentions extracted automatically. Trending sidebar, tag feeds, autocomplete while typing.
Realtime, even closed
Follows, likes, replies, reposts over SSE (25s heartbeat, replay buffer) plus Web Push via VAPID.
Private + safe
Private accounts with follow requests, reply/mention policies, mutual-hide block, report + appeals, OTP email.
Pinned posts, bookmarks, dark mode with no-flash theme, guest blur after 20 profiles — all in the app today.
Trust & safety
Made for campus. Safe by design.
General networks weren't built around student life. CampusZen keeps identity clear and moderation simple from day one — block and report are enforced in feed, search, profiles, and notifications.
Built for student identity
College, course, and year on every profile — plus follower, following, and post counts, pinned post, and merit verification (50 posts or 100 followers).
Safe by default
OTP-verified email, bcrypt hashing, HTTP-only rotating sessions, Zod validation, per-route rate limits, and env-gated admin review queue.
You're in control
Private accounts + follow requests, reply/mention policies, mutual-hide block with auto-unfollow, report with instant local hide + appeals, export/deactivate/delete.
Scope
Text-first. No noise.
CampusZen does one loop well — discover, follow, post, interact — now with long-form articles, author analytics, and verification on top. Communities, DMs, and clips come later, only when the core feels right.
In: posts + polls + mediaIn: articles 50kIn: analyticsIn: verificationIn: SSE + push
Out: DMs · Stories / clips · Marketplace · Premium
Ready to find your people?
Two-minute signup. Verify your email with an OTP, add your college and course, follow 3 students — your Following feed is live. Publish your first post or a full article today.
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