What's Next? Portland-made app helps you keep in touch with friends, no strings or data-tracking attached Nina Mehlhaf What's Next? Portland-made app Popple keeps you in touch with friends, without the creepy tracking of social media Replay Video UP NEXT We're continuing our KGW series What's Next?, stories about the future of technology, innovation and what life will look like post-COVID. A lot of people will agree, it can be hard to make friends as an adult. And the pandemic made it really hard to keep the ones we have, since we couldn't see them very much. A Portland man found himself in that spot, and made an app to help.