NU Pool vs Ruggles

NU Pool is an independent, student-built app that helps students at Northeastern's Oakland campus find people going where they're going. Heading to a concert, the city, the airport, or just dinner off campus? Post a Plan or join one, see who's in, and figure out getting there together. PLANS • Make a campus-visible Plan anyone in the pilot can join, or an invite-only one for people you choose • Keep the exact meeting spot in private details that only confirmed members can see • Chat with everyone in the Plan in one place GETTING THERE • Pick how your group is getting there: split a ride, BART, or the campus shuttle • See live BART departures right in the Plan • Split a ride: NU Pool matches you with students heading the same way, opens a Ride Room to coordinate, and works out each person's share of the fare • Open Uber or Lyft straight from your Ride Room when it's time to book YOUR PEOPLE • Find classmates by name and connect • Private and group chats with your connections • See which Plans and events your connections are going to YOUR DAY • Add your class schedule and see a live countdown to your next class • Connect your Canvas calendar to see what's due today and this week • Get an evening reminder when something is due tomorrow BUILT FOR CAMPUS • Every account is verified with a Northeastern email • Block or report anyone, and delete your account from the app at any time • No ads, no tracking, and NU Pool never asks for your location NU Pool is an independent student project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Northeastern University. NU Pool does not provide drivers or process payments; rides are booked by students through the ride service of their choice.

Ruggles is for Northeastern students who want to find people they actually have something in common with. Most people you'd get on with are already on campus. You just never cross paths with them. Ruggles lets you look for them directly. HOW IT WORKS You add tags to your profile. Where you're from, down to your city and high school. Your major, your courses, your dorm, the clubs you're in and where you did co-op. The sports you play and the teams you follow. The films, shows, games, books and artists you're into. Then you search more than one tag at once. Barcelona and Soccer. Lagos and Computer Science. Interstellar and Mr Robot. You see everyone on campus who has all of them, and what else you have in common. Your top matches are the people who share your rarest tags. Two people who both picked the same high school have more to talk about than two people who both like music, so that's who comes first. GROUPS If a few of you share something specific, you can make a group around it and invite the people who have those tags. Once three people are in, the group opens. You can chat, suggest a time and place to meet, and see who's coming. Saying you can't make it is one tap, and nobody sees who said no. FEED AND ASKS The feed is posts from students, newest first. Nothing is ranked or pushed at you. Asks are for small things you need help with right now. A spotter at the gym, someone to sit with at the library, someone to walk into a club meeting with. They disappear after a couple of hours. MESSAGES Nobody can message you until you accept them. You can block or report anyone, or any post, and every report is read within 24 hours. WHO CAN JOIN You need a @northeastern.edu email to sign up, so everyone here is a student. You can delete your account and everything in it from Settings at any time. Ruggles is an independent app made by a student. It isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Northeastern University.