Social infrastructure to turn strangers into neighbors

The problem

You get in the elevator with some neighbors, and proceed to make eye contact with the elevator buttons.

This is normal.

It shouldn't be.

We live surrounded by people we don’t know. We share walls, streets, and cafes, yet rarely interact.

Modern life has removed the conditions that once made connection natural. We move often. We work remotely. We socialize on screens. We spend our time commuting across the city to see friends, instead of meeting the people nearby.

Today, the options are polarized: do nothing and remain disconnected, or invest significant time and energy, and take on social risks to organize something.

Most people fall in the middle. They want connection, but not at the cost of taking on an entire community organizer job in their free time. So nothing happens and we stay isolated.

The solution

We don't lack the desire for community. We lack the infrastructure for it.

That’s why I built a simple low-pressure "on-ramp" to local connection: A 10-minute “say hi” chat with a person nearby.

No planning. No pressure. Just enough structure to make the first interaction happen.

Because you shouldn’t have to be a community leader just to know who lives next door.

With this, I hope we can build a world where knowing our neighbors is standard, local communities form organically, and people can invest as much or as little as they want.

Some people will just meet one neighbor. Others will build entire communities.

Why I built this

I wanted a daily life where I recognize people on my street, run into familiar faces at the grocery store, and text someone nearby for a last-minute walk.

I tried the existing options. Social groups, events, apps. They often led to what I think of as “long-distance friendship” — coordinating schedules, planning in advance, and commuting across the city every single time we wanted to connect.

What was missing was connection as part of daily life, not another scheduling task.

All along, there were amazing people right around the corner. We just needed a way to meet.