Friends01 / friends
The run-club regular you keep almost talking to. The people who turn a city into your city.
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5★ · soulmate
nexi
/ˈnek-see/
A live map of the people near you.
Friends, dating, or business — ranked by who you'd actually click with. No feed, no swipe deck.
One email, the day Nexi opens near you. That's it.
The problem, stated plainly
The social part of social media is missing.
The social part of social media is missing.
We're the part that's missing.
Ten years ago you joined a network to find your friends. Now you scroll one to forget you have any.
The dating apps turned people into a deck of strangers in another zip code. The friendship apps disappeared. The professional networks became performance art.
Somewhere in there, social stopped meaning with people. It started meaning about them.
Nexi is for the part that got lost. The half-block walk. The empty Tuesday. The bar with no plans yet. Real people. Physically nearby. Who you might actually meet.
- Not a feed.A map.
- Not a deck.A radius.
- Not connection-as-content.Connection.
The three modes
One map. Three ways to meet.
Three modes. One account. Switch in a tap. Each has its own profile, its own photos, its own audience.
Dating02 / dating
Someone compatible, three blocks away, tonight. Not a deck of strangers in another zip code.
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5★ · match
Business03 / business
The engineer two tables over. Collaborators, hires, and peers already in the room — not a Zoom invite.
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5★ · partner
Every person on your map is ranked one to five stars — by how well you two actually match, not by who paid to be seen.
What Nexi can do
Built for showing up.
The map opens the door. The rest is what happens after you say hi.
The map is the interface.
A live view of nearby people, ranked one to five stars by how much you'll click. Switch modes in a tap.
Three identities. Zero leakage.
Your dating profile stays out of your professional life. Each mode is its own profile, and the app only shows people the mode they found you in.
Match on what actually matters.
Tune the weights yourself. MBTI, zodiac, lifestyle, religion, politics, life goals, height, hometown — use what you care about, ignore the rest. Set deal-breakers; the wrong matches don't appear at all.
Networking that doesn't live in a feed.
Find pros nearby by title, skills, and industry. Or flip on Customer Discovery and let the people looking for what you do find you.
Make plans, not just matches.
Public events. Private events. 1-on-1 dates. Double dates. Pro-match meetups. Recurring trivia, run clubs, mixers. Built-in RSVP, capacity, waitlist, check-in, feedback. A reminder before it starts — then silence, no nagging.
Communities that do more than chat.
Shared spaces for the groups you actually belong to — your run club, your alumni network, the people from last week's event. One place to chat, plan and host your own events, and coordinate, with owner, admin, and member roles. Invite who belongs; everyone shows up together.
Lists that sort themselves.
Organize your own connections into private lists only you can see — Close Friends, Workout Crew, Work Contacts. Set a rule like Religion = Catholic AND Age 25–35, and Nexi auto-files every matching connection into the list. Private, automatic, one tap.
A chat that goes somewhere.
Direct, group, and event chats in one inbox. GIFs, photos, social-link cards. Read receipts that aren't anxiety-inducing. Event chats archive automatically if the host cancels the event, and drop out of your inbox once it's over. Block and report are two taps deep.
Real people, verified.
Take a selfie and Nexi matches it to your photos right on your phone, then adds a verified-person badge to your profile and your map pin. The selfie is deleted after the check, and the match never leaves your device. You see who's real before you ever say hi.
And: daily-streak XP, community-suggested interests, social-link sharing, GDPR data export, and a settings page that respects you.
You don't need another social app.
You need the one that finally remembers what social means.
How it works
Three steps. No feed.
Open it when you're somewhere. Close it when you're with someone.
01
Pick your mode.
Friends, dating, or business. Each has its own profile and its own visibility.
02
See who's nearby.
A live map of people in your radius — ranked by shared interests and intent.
03
Show up.
Say hi. Plan a coffee. RSVP to something five minutes away. The screen ends here.
Reprise
Less swiping. More showing up.
Real people. Real life. Real time.
You'll hear from us the day Nexi opens in your area.
Privacy by default
Privacy isn't a setting.
Privacy isn't a setting.
It's the architecture.
Most apps collect everything, ship fast, and bury the protection in a settings menu. We did the opposite.
Your home is invisible.
Draw a radius around where you live. Inside it your pin doesn't appear on anyone's map. Not blurred, not approximate. Gone. The neighbor across the hall sees the same blank space as a stranger across town.
Nobody sees exactly where you are.
When you're on the map, your pin isn't your exact spot. We show a blurred position that re-randomizes on every update. The person two blocks over sees that you're nearby. Not which café, which corner, which side of the street.
Three modes. Three audiences. Zero leakage.
Three modes, three separate profiles, each with its own photos and bio. The coworker who finds you in Business mode sees only that, never your dating profile. The app shows each person only the mode they discovered you in.
You control your visibility.
You decide who can find you. Choose which modes you're discoverable in, flip your location visibility off in one tap, pause your profile anytime, or turn on Travel mode — and your home address is always auto-hidden.
No feed. No metrics. No leaderboard.
No follower count. No likes. No leaderboard. No “people you may know.” No timeline ranking your social life. The map is the feed, and when you close the app, the feed closes with you. Your XP and check-in streak are private: yours to see, never ranked against anyone.
We don't sell what we know about you.
We don't run ads. We don't build an advertiser profile of you. We don't share your location with anyone. The business model is the app itself, and eventually an optional subscription for power features. Your data isn't the product. The product is.
Block. Report. Walk away.
Every interaction has a block button two taps away. Every report goes to a human reviewer. If someone you've blocked is in your radius, you don't see them. They don't see you. Neither of you knows the other is there.
Verify it's you, without handing us your face.
The selfie check that earns your verified badge runs on your phone. The match stays on the device, the selfie is deleted, and we never store a scan of your face.
Meeting strangers, safely
Tools to meet someone new, and walk away clean.
Verification tells you who's real. The rest is yours to control.
Verified people
A quick selfie check, on your phone, earns a verified-person badge. You can see who's real before you say hi.
A human reads every report
Reports don't disappear into an algorithm. A real person reviews them.
Block is final
Two taps and they're gone. They can't see you, you can't see them, and there's no notification either way.
Your call, always
Pause your profile, hide your location, or go quiet in one tap. You're never locked in.
Verification confirms identity, not intent. Always meet new people in public.
FAQ
Questions we get a lot.
Plainspoken answers. If you don't see yours, email us.
You decide if and when to say hi, in public, on your terms. Block and report are two taps away, every report reaches a real person, and blocking makes you and them invisible to each other for good.
They can prove it. Anyone can pass a quick selfie check that matches their face to their profile photo, right on their phone, and earn a verified-person badge on their pin and profile. The check runs on the device and the selfie is deleted — we never store your face.
No. Draw a radius around home and your pin simply doesn't appear there, to anyone. Everywhere else you show up as a blurred dot that re-scatters every time it updates, so no one can pin you to a doorstep.
Only when you want to be. Turn location off in one tap, pause your profile, or flip on Travel mode, and near home you're hidden automatically. The map is something you open, not something that watches you.
Your precise location stays on your phone. People in your radius see only a blurred dot that re-randomizes on every update. Your true coordinates are never written to our servers, never shared, never sold.
That's the whole reason for the waitlist. A map of nobody is useless, so we turn Nexi on one city at a time, and we only email you once there are enough people around you to make it worth opening. Tell us your ZIP and we'll tell you when it's live near you.
No. Run one, two, or all three, and turn any off whenever. Each mode is a separate profile with its own photos and audience, so your dating life never touches your professional one, and people only ever see you in the mode they found you in.
18+. Nexi is for adults only, on every mode.
Yes. Friends, dating, business, the map, the chats — free forever. No ads, and we never sell your data. We may add an optional paid tier later for power features, but the version that does the actual job stays free.
It goes. Delete your account and your profile and data are removed — and you can export everything first. No shadow profile left behind, nothing sold on the way out.
Everyone you see is physically near you, not curated from another zip code, not a connection you already had. No swipe deck. Just a map, a tap, a bio, and the engineer two tables over.
At launch, yes. Android is on the roadmap.
A founder who got tired of the alternatives. Read the note below.
I'd opened a social app every day for ten years and couldn't remember the last one that made me feel social.
A bar with one open table and three people on their phones. None of it bad, exactly. None of it social.
The people I wanted to meet were almost always within a five-minute walk, and I had no way to find them. The same regulars at my coffee shop every morning — I never said hi to one. Not because I didn't want to. Because there was no on-ramp.
So I built the on-ramp.
Nexi is a map of the people physically near you. The app I wished existed when I was new to a city. The app I wished existed every Tuesday night the friends I wanted to call were busy.
If you're reading this, you probably feel some version of the same thing.
Drop your email and your ZIP. We'll send one message — the day Nexi opens near you.
See you out there.
— Roman
One email, the day Nexi opens near you. That's it.