Tech Startup Offers Social-Networking Platform for Co-ops and Condos

Oct. 10, 2014 — Many co-ops and condos have public websites. Many more have internal websites where residents can schedule repairs, read building documents, pay their monthly charges online and do myriad other things. You know what most co-ops and condos don't have? A building-specific social network platform — sort of you and your neighbors' own private Facebook. So, filling that gap is the recent startup MyCoop, which says that 341 buildings so far have signed up for the free service. Its founders say they "believe that the more neighbors talk to one another the more great things will happen. For example, your old couch could be someone’s new couch, your solitary childcare could become endless playdates." Because laundry-room bulletin boards and chatting in the lobby are sooooo 20th century.