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What Was Broken
Keeping up with friends at a distance feels like work. Group chats are noisy, text updates feel robotic, and nobody actually reads long messages. The result: people drift apart not because they don't care, but because the tools make connection feel like effort.
currently building v1
What I Bet On
That the right format changes everything. Short videos feel alive in a way text never does — but public social media adds performance pressure. We bet on combining TikTok-style viewing with WhatsApp-style privacy: every video is only visible to the specific group it's shared with.
“We didn't want another social network. We wanted a way to actually feel present in each other's lives.”
— Gaia Rebai
What Happened
Currently in active development. Architecture rebuilt from scratch after an initial AI-generated codebase proved too unstable — now running a cleaner Supabase-first stack.
see it live