Our Story & Vision

Building Community

Humans are hard wired for social connection. We need and desire being in community with other people at the same stage of life.

FiveInCommon was founded on the question of, “Why isn’t there a social matching app to help families meet other families at church?”

Five years ago, when we asked ourselves this question there wasn’t an app for this, but now there is with FiveInCommon.

We come from a software and technology background and we know that good technology helps people get what they want, easier and faster. Our question was all about trying to make life easier for ourselves and everyone around us with the same desire of making new friends as a family, with other families within a community of other people.

When you look around most church communities, you will see people at all stages of life; single, dating, engaged or married; some have no kids, others are grandparents. We quickly realized that our app would need to meet the needs of people at all stages of life (as long as they are 18 or older). Today our user base ranges from age 18 to 82.

So early on we decided to help people in churches meet one another. We also realized the same social challenge existed in neighborhoods and for parents with kids in K-12 schools.

Neighborhood communities have similar needs as churches where some neighbors would like to meet others at the same stage of life and who have similar interests.

K-12 Schools are also interesting. For those of us with kids at this stage of life, we often meet other parents through in-person activities like sports, or school activities. However parents are busy and we don’t always cross paths with other school families with similar interests.

This is why we created FiveInCommon to make it easier and faster to meet people, as a family, as a couple or an individual; in communities where you live.

If our vision and story sounds crazy consider the history of online social matching.

Since 1994 single people have had access to online social matching to meet new people. There is no shortage of apps to help single people meet one another. These social matching apps help many single people move into the next stage of life. In 2017, a study at Stanford University showed 39% of couples met online.

Online social matching is powerful. Families and Couples have been historically underserved with social matching technology, until now.

We believe we can make the world a more beautiful place by giving people the gift of social connection in their Neighborhood, in their Church and in their kid’s K-12 Schools.

Cheers!