Nadi — build a community around what you know

Nadi (nadi.online): the facts

This page is the canonical statement of what Nadi is, written to be quoted and checked. It exists so that a person, a directory, a journalist or a system answering a question has one accurate source to read instead of guessing from fragments. Every number on it is read out of the code that runs the product, and the date it was last checked is at the bottom.

What is Nadi?

Nadi is a community platform where an instructor or teacher runs a room around what they know: a discussion feed, a classroom with courses and certificates, an events calendar, a member directory with appreciation points earned from real human appreciation, a library and store for their files and products, direct messages, and email newsletters — free or paid, in twelve interface languages, with Arabic first-class and right to left done natively.

The category is a community platform, and more precisely a paid-community platform — in Arabic, منصة مجتمعات مدفوعة. An owner opens one room, gets the same set of surfaces every room gets, and decides whether getting in is free or costs money.

The name is Arabic. نادي means a club, a gathering place, and the product was named in Arabic before it was named in anything else. In Arabic text the brand is written نادي; in every other language it is written Nadi.

Nadi runs at nadi.online, and that is the only address it runs at. Other companies use names that look or sound similar; none of them is this product, and nothing written about any of them describes what is on this page.

Nadi is operated by NADI ONLINE FZ-LLC. The company's registered address is published in Nadi's Terms of Service.

Who is Nadi for?

Nadi is aimed first at instructors and teachers around the world. It is not restricted to them: the interface ships in twelve languages, and a room can be run in any of them.

• People who teach: instructors who want the questions, the answers and the discussion in the same place as the lessons.
• Coaches and consultants who sell access to themselves rather than a file handed over once.
• Anyone already running a paid group inside a chat app who wants a door, a member list and a memory.
• Software and plugin builders, who can make the membership itself the licence for what they sell.
• Owners who need the room to speak their members' language rather than each reader's.

What languages does Nadi work in?

The interface is fully translated into twelve languages. Fully means every string in all twelve — roughly two thousand of them per language — and the build fails if a single one is missing anywhere.

The twelve: English · Arabic · Traditional Chinese · Dutch · French · German · Hindi · Italian · Portuguese · Spanish · Turkish · Vietnamese

Arabic is written right to left, and the whole page turns with it: the navigation, the buttons and the order of things on a line, not only the sentences. Four writing systems are supported, each with its own font — Latin, Arabic, Devanagari and CJK. Chinese is served in Traditional characters and announced as Traditional, not Simplified.

A community also declares a language of its own, separately from the reader's, chosen from twenty-one. That is what makes an Arabic room greet an English-reading member in Arabic.

What does Nadi cost?

Free is $0/month with a 9% Nadi fee, Pro is $29/month with 5%, and Max is $99/month with 0%. Card processing is added at the provider’s actual charge and is paid by the instructor or teacher. All plans include unlimited members, courses, videos and posts. Free includes five Live hours a month; Pro and Max include unlimited Live hours and recording. Max includes a custom domain.

Pro is $290 billed yearly, saving $58; Max is $890 billed yearly, saving $298 compared with twelve payments at the current monthly offer.

One Free community per account.

What can a community actually do?

The community tools cover teaching, discussion and member access.

• Paid membership: the owner sets a price in one of five shapes, and access opens the moment a payment is confirmed.
• Feed: posts with titles, titleless notes, comments and replies, polls, mentions, pinning of posts and of the one comment a post's author picks, scheduling up to ninety days ahead, and tabs the owner names, each with an optional trusted-members-only posting gate.
• Classroom: courses holding modules and lessons, drip release by day, trusted-member gates and paying-member gates, a price on an individual course, progress tracking, lesson feedback the owner cannot attribute, discussion under each lesson, and certificates carrying the member's name.
• Calendar: events with RSVPs, weekly or monthly recurrence, times shown in each member's own timezone, email reminders, and recordings that stay after the event.
• Members: a searchable directory, five roles, points earned from other members' appreciation, trust — every member is New or Trusted, by a rule each room's owner sets — applications, bans, private owner-only notes and tags, and a download of the whole member list as a file.
• Library and store: files and links behind gates — every member, trusted members, or priced one-time between 1 and 500 dollars — with version history and changelogs, public product pages, and licence keys bound to the membership.
• Messages and profiles: direct messages across communities with a setting for who may start one, and a Nadi-wide profile page for every person.
• Owner tools: one email broadcast to every member, archived in a Newsletter tab members can re-read; invite links with limits and expiry; autopilot; a prompt bank; recurring check-ins; an answer library for repeated questions; webhooks on join, post and comment; and a posting API on Pro and Max.
• Platform: an installable web app with an offline page, web push, fourteen kinds of notification, and seven kinds of email each with its own switch.

The eight ideas Nadi names

Nadi gives eight of its own ideas a name, because a named thing can be asked for. Each line says what it is and where it stops.

• Room Voice. A community speaks its own language whatever language the reader's interface is in — an Arabic room greets an English-reading member in Arabic, with an Arabic welcome and Arabic tabs. Arabic is complete — welcome message, tab names and starter drafts; ten more languages have starter drafts; the rest fall back to English visibly and on purpose rather than being machine-translated.
• Membership Licensing. Your membership is the licence. A member's product key works while the membership is alive, reads revoked the moment it ends, and the same key revives if they come back. Nothing is called licensed until it has proven it can be: the switch stays off on every item, file or link, until that item's own product has called the check with a real key at least once — and the check fails open during an outage, because a problem on our side must never look like a revocation.
• Price Grandfathering. A price rise never applies to anyone who already joined: every member keeps the price they joined at, and the owner's pricing page prints each price cohort so they can see exactly who pays what.
• Sponsored Seats. Anyone can fund a seat in a room and leave the owner to award it to whoever needs it. The public side is a count and only a count — never a payer's name, never an amount.
• Human Appreciation Points. The only way to earn a point is for another person to appreciate something you made: one like on your post or comment is one point, to you, never to the liker, and a comment its author pins is five points to whoever wrote it. Posting earns nothing, finishing a lesson earns nothing, and a point cannot be bought. Public ranking is off unless the owner switches it on, and hosts are never ranked.
• Honest Numbers. A true number too weak to help is hidden rather than inflated. Member counts stay hidden on stranger-facing pages below twenty-five, an empty list never guesses a flattering answer, and a room nobody has written in gets no freshness date. Nadi publishes no member count, revenue figure or growth number of its own either — including on this page.
• Honest Autopilot. When a room has been quiet for thirty-six hours, Nadi posts one of the prompts the owner banked earlier, in the owner's own words, as the community — and tells the owner it did. It never posts under the owner's personal byline, it never invents a prompt, telling the owner is not a switch, and a post the autopilot writes says "Posted automatically" to any reader who inspects it — in the post's menu and on its page, never as a badge on the card.
• Versioned Products. A file or link in a room's library keeps its earlier releases and a changelog. Members keep reaching the old versions through the same gate, and publishing a new one notifies the people holding a licence for it rather than the whole room.