In betaGlim
The smallest social app we could build. It reads where you are, writes you a note for it, and gives you and one other person a single number to share. Then it closes for the day.
Person
Number a day
Feeds to scroll
What you get back
Every morning
01 · The read
An energy score for the day and a note written for the state you are actually in. It is short, it is specific, and it is yours whether you pay or not.
02 · The bond
You bond with one person. Each morning you both see how in sync you were. Not the score, not the sentence. Just the number, and the count of days you have both shown up.
03 · The flow
The days line up in one flow. Around the third week you notice your Tuesdays, and nobody had to tell you.
Why it closes
Five things it will never grow into
Most apps are built to be left open. This one opens for a window in the morning, takes one look and one sentence, and shuts itself when it is done. There is nothing underneath to come back to at noon. That is not a limitation we are waiting to remove. It is the product.
Nothing to scroll. When the morning is done the app is done, and it says so.
No discovery tab, no suggestions, nobody you didn't choose yourself.
One bond, one nudge, no text. There is nothing to compose and nothing to answer.
The note for the day you showed up is always free. What costs money is the archive, months later.
There is no ad SDK in the build, so there is nothing to switch on later.
The bond
Bond 01 / 01
Pick one person. A partner, a sister, the friend you text at 07:10. From then on you both get a single number each morning: how in sync the two of you were today. It goes up when you show up at similar hours and in similar states. It goes down when one of you disappears.
The number mixes three things and two of them the other person cannot know, so it cannot be worked backwards into your day. It is a formula, not a subtraction, and that is what makes it safe to share.
They see
78%Today's sync, and the day count. That is the whole of it.
They never see
—Your score, your sentence, the hour you opened it.
Şehir Nabzı ranks the week in Istanbul and resets on Monday. Positions are public; the numbers are not. You sit on your own row and nowhere else, so a rank says the same thing without handing anyone the arithmetic.
We add people slowly and read every reply. Tell us who your one person would be.