New Feature
Introducing Private Boards: Your Own Channel, for Your Own People
A board that appears in no feed, carries no location, and admits only the people you approve — on your screen and in every member's pocket.
Until now, every board on SLX On Air was public: your screen, your posts, and a place in your neighbourhood’s feed for anyone nearby to find and follow.
That's perfect for a shop. It's wrong for an office. And it's definitely wrong for your home.
So boards now come in two kinds, chosen when you create one: Public, for businesses that want to be found — or Private, for groups that want a vetted audience.
50+ homes and offices set up a private board in the first week — most as their own internal messaging system.
What “private” actually means here
Locked at creation, forever
Visibility is chosen once, when the board is made, and can never be changed, not by you, an admin or us. A private board can’t be flipped public by a fumbled setting. Want the other kind? Create a new board.
Invisible by design
No location, no map pin, and posts never enter any neighbourhood, nearby or home feed. The only ways in: a board code, a link, or your invite.
You are the bouncer
Ask anyone who requests to join up to 5 screening questions: “Which flat are you in?”, “Which department?” A real person reviews the answers and approves or declines each request. There is no auto-approval.
A screen on the wall — and in every pocket
Here’s why offices and homes moved in so fast: a post to a private board reaches the board’s screen and every approved member’s phone at the same moment. A TV everyone walks past, plus a feed only your people can open.
At the office
Screen in the lobby. HR posts the holiday list, the town-hall reminder, a new joiner’s welcome: on the wall for everyone present, on the phone of everyone who isn’t. Staff join by scanning the board code at reception; leavers are removed with a tap.
At home
The living-room screen becomes the family board: the week’s plan, the grocery list, weekend photos, a note for the kids. Visible to the household and family living away, and nobody else.
Societies, clinics, gyms, schools
Residents vetted by the committee, members-only announcements, parents and staff only. Wherever the audience is “our people, not the public,” a private board fits.
Who can post is a separate choice: Broadcast mode (only owners and admins post, right for signage) or Community mode (any approved member can post). Unlike visibility, you can switch this anytime.
Set up in five steps
- 01Create the board on the web console. Choose Private for visibility; private boards skip location entirely.
- 02Add your join questions — up to 5, each required or optional.
- 03Share the way in: the board code, a link, or direct invites. Print the code for the reception desk or the fridge door.
- 04Approve your people. Requests arrive with the answers attached — approve or decline from the app or the console.
- 05Post. Your screen and every member’s phone update together.
Removing someone is just as simple, and blocked users can’t request again.
And if you want to be found? Go Public.
Public boards got sharper too: every public board lives in a real neighbourhood, appears in nearby discovery (even to people who haven’t signed up yet), and can be followed with one tap. Every post plays on your screen and reaches app users browsing your area.
| Public board | Private board | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Businesses that want local reach | Offices, homes, societies, clubs |
| Location | Pinned to its neighbourhood | None — no location at all |
| Discovery | Nearby browsing, feed, search, code, link | Only by code, link, or invite |
| Following | Instant, one tap | Request → questions → your approval |
| What outsiders see | The board and its posts | A Request-to-Join card only |
| Posts appear | On your screens + the neighbourhood feed | To approved members only |
| Changeable later? | No — locked at creation | No — locked at creation |
Public is reach. Private is control.
Pick the one each screen needs — plenty of our customers run both.
Start your own channel
Private boards are live on the web console, Android and iOS, and drive your SLX On Air screens exactly like public ones. Already with us? Create one from the console. New here? WhatsApp us at +91 99102 77891 or +91 79767 06738 and we’ll get you set up.
