# Sanct Social Releases Episode 8, "Someone came.", Showing Five App Features

> Sanct Social released its eighth short film on YouTube on October 24, showing five app features including a sleep alarm and friend categories.

- Published: 2026-10-24T12:55:33+00:00
- Section: Product Launches
- Author: News Desk
- URL: https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-10-24/sanct-social-episode-8-five-features
- Source: [Prtimes](https://www.prtimes.org/news/107378)

## Key takeaways

- Sanct Social released the eighth episode of its short film series, "Someone came.", on YouTube on October 24.
- The film shows five app features: a sleep status with an alarm, a contact card, a friend request with a message, a thirty-minute live location, and four friend categories.
- The sleep alarm and friend categories are part of an upcoming update, while the other features are in the app now.

[Sanct Social](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/028fvh4/sanct-social) released the eighth episode of its short film series, "Someone came.", on YouTube on October 24, showing five app features including a sleep alarm and friend categories. The company said the film was made to answer one question and to teach five features along the way.

## What the Episode 8 Film Shows

The film runs under two minutes with no dialogue and is set partly in Johor Bahru. It follows Keisha, who works in Singapore, comes home with a cough on a Friday night and sets her sleep status far earlier than usual. Her sister in Jakarta sees it and cannot come, so she asks Rivani, Keisha's Malaysian friend, who is at her mother's house in Johor Bahru for the weekend. Rivani introduces her mother in the app, Keisha sends a request, the mother accepts, and by Saturday lunch she is at Keisha's door with a tiffin carrier, forty minutes across the Causeway.

"For Malaysian families with someone in Singapore, help is often forty minutes away, not a flight away. The film shows how a friend's introduction gets that help to the door," Sanct Social founder Sion Abednego said in a statement.

The five features shown are a sleep status with an alarm friends can see, a contact card shared in a chat, a friend request with a message, a thirty-minute live location, and the new friend categories. The sleep alarm and the friend categories belong to the update about to reach the App Store; the other features are in the app now. Every app screen shown is the real app, with only the characters' names, words, photos and times changed.

"We want people to finish the film knowing exactly what to tap. The story carries the feeling; the steps are the lesson," Sion added.

## Sanct Social's Platform and Waitlist

According to akta.pro [company records](https://akta.pro/company-data), Sanct Social opened a public waitlist for its private social networking platform with a goal of 1 million members and a free month of Premium for early adopters. The records also show a scale indicator of more than 5,000 early members already on the waitlist at the time of data collection. Sanct Social is a free download for iPhone on the Apple App Store in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore, and in nine more countries including the Philippines, Vietnam, India and Japan, with no advertisements. It supports Bahasa Melayu, English, Bahasa Indonesia and Hindi, and the Android version is not ready yet.

## Earlier Episodes and Launches

Sanct Social released Episode 7 of its short film series on YouTube on October 17, a silent film about two sisters reconnecting after a two-week visit, according to [Prtimes](https://www.prtimes.org/news/107378). The app launched in Malaysia on September 30 as a free Apple App Store download, with pre-orders open, and in Indonesia on the same day, following its Singapore debut on September 28, according to Rapportph. Sanct Social released Episode 4 of its family film series on YouTube on September 22 and opened App Store pre-orders, according to Prtimes.

## What Comes Next for Sanct Social

The sleep alarm and friend categories are part of the update about to reach the App Store. More than a thousand people are already on the platform, and all eight episodes of the series are on YouTube. For more information and to download the app, visit [Sanct Social's website](https://sanct.social).

## Companies in this story

- [Sanct Social company profile](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/028fvh4/sanct-social) · website: https://sanct.social

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