What is Uni-Chat and What does it stand for?

Why Uni-Chat Exists

Uni-Chat exists because university should be the time you will never forget.

We often say that the best stories always start with the words: “Remember that time at uni…”

The problem is that actually making those stories happen is much harder than it sounds.

Like many students, I started university excited for what the next four years might bring. New people, new experiences, and a completely new environment.

We live in an era of connectivity and discoverability. Everything is online. Everything is technically accessible.

BUT...

Everything is also scattered across hundreds of different links, apps, websites, group chats, and social platforms.

Events are on one site. Group chats are somewhere else. Societies post updates on another platform. People organise plans in private chats.

Soon I realised I was missing things simply because I was not in the right group chat or not checking the right website at the right time.

The Core Idea

The idea behind Uni-Chat is simple:

What’s happening and who’s going?

That is the question most students actually want answered.

When you know what is happening and who will be there, it becomes much easier to say yes to something. It becomes easier to meet people. It becomes easier to actually experience university life instead of watching it from the sidelines.

So the goal became clear.

Instead of students constantly jumping between dozens of different platforms, Uni-Chat pulls everything into one place and helps students find each other.

Not relying on people to switch to Uni-Chat to enter all their events and venues. But taking everything that already exists on the internet and just pulling them into one place.

What Uni-Chat Does

Uni-Chat is a platform where only university students can create an account. Each student builds a profile that says who they are and what they are interested in.

From there, the platform focuses on helping students discover people, events, and places around them.

Discover Students

Students can easily find other students through B-Discovered, and start conversations through Messages.

Meeting new people should not depend on being lucky enough to sit next to them in a lecture.

Groups

Students can create and join groups.

Public groups across the internet already exist and many people will keep using them. But Uni-Chat makes private student groups and group chats easier to organise in one place.

Captures

Captures allow students to post location based updates.

This lets you quickly see what is happening around you right now and who else is nearby.

It is one of the easiest ways to discover spontaneous plans or find out where people are gathering.

Events

Uni-Chat pulls together events happening across Edinburgh into one place.

Students can mark events they plan to attend and see who else is going.

That small piece of information often makes the difference between skipping something and actually going.

Pubs and Bars

Uni-Chat also brings together information about pubs and bars in Edinburgh.

Students can see:

• What each place specialises in

• Opening hours

• Distance from them

• Student discounts

But most importantly, they can see who is going and how busy it might be.

Polly AI

Polly AI is designed to feel like that one friend at university who seems to know everyone and always knows where things are happening.

Polly helps students:

• discover people

• find events

• see where others are going

Some experimental features even allow Polly to introduce students to each other or group together people who are already planning to attend the same event.

Our Mission

At the end of the day, Uni-Chat exists for one simple reason.

We want to make sure university becomes a time you will never forget.

We do that by making it easy to see what is happening and who is going.

Instead of forcing students to search through dozens of scattered websites, chats, and platforms, Uni-Chat brings everything together in one place.

We are Uni-Chat.

And if you graduate without a legendary story to tell, then we have failed.