FirstMove: Meet People Nearby

Standing in a room full of strangers? Open a zone where you are, see who else is in it, and knock. New: AI writes your bio, your event blurb and your profile icon.

You walked in on your own. Everyone else looks like they already know each other. Your phone is the easiest place in the room to hide.

FirstMove is built for the ten minutes before you give up and go home.

WHAT IT ACTUALLY IS

A VibeZone is a room drawn on a map. Someone opens one around a venue, a festival field, a conference hall, a rooftop, a park bench. While it is open, anyone standing inside can see who else is there and say something.

Step outside and you're gone from it. No profile left behind. No follower count. No feed to keep fed.

Not a dating app. Not another place to scroll.

HOW A NIGHT GOES

1. Open the map. See what's live around you, or draw your own zone wherever you happen to be standing.
2. Put together a face for the room: a name, a line about what you're up for, an icon. It exists in this zone and nowhere else.
3. Knock on someone. If they knock back, a chat opens. If they don't, nothing happens and they're never told you tried.

CONSENT, BUILT IN

Every introduction runs through the same three steps: knock, mutual confirm, connect. Nobody can message you before you've said yes. There is no request folder filling up with things you never asked for.

Chats close when the zone does, unless you both decide to swap something permanent.

PRIVACY, SPECIFICALLY

Not a promise. A design.

• The profile you build lives in one zone and dies with it
• Your location places you inside a zone; it is never drawn on a map for anyone to follow
• Messages are end-to-end encrypted between you and the person you agreed to talk to
• Faked GPS is rejected before it reaches us, so being in the room means being in the room
• Leaving is the delete button. Walk out and the zone forgets you

THE WRITING IS THE HARD PART. NOW IT ISN'T.

New in this release. Tap the spark and FirstMove drafts it:

• Event titles and descriptions
• VibeZone names and blurbs
• A persona bio, a username, an opening line
• A one-off icon for your ephemeral profile, made to order

Everyone gets an allowance every month. FirstMove+ gets a far bigger one.

IF YOU THROW EVENTS, START HERE

This is the part we built hardest.

Anyone can create an event now. No review queue, nobody to email, no waiting on us.

• Sell tickets through Stripe, Paystack or Apple Pay
• Check people in with the built-in QR scanner
• Open a public zone for the whole room, or a private one behind a key
• Hand out badges for staff, investors, founders and first-timers, so the right people are findable
• Draw the geofence yourself, to the meter, around exactly the space you booked
• See who actually showed up, and how the room moved through the night

Guests who met someone come back. Guests who spent the night in a corner on their phone do not. That is the entire pitch.

YOU ARE THERE OR YOU ARE NOT

• You have to be standing in the room
• They have to knock back
• Walk out and you're gone

WHERE IT EARNS ITS PLACE

The conference where you know precisely nobody. The festival where you lost your friends four hours ago. A gallery opening where everyone arrived in pairs. A run club on week one. A house party in a city you moved to last month. The wedding where you're the plus-one and the seating chart was not kind. Any room at all where the most interesting person is eight feet away and neither of you is going to move first.

FIRSTMOVE+

A much larger AI allowance, and more room to host. Optional, monthly, and never required to meet anybody.

Free to download, free to open a zone, free to say hello.

Available in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Zulu, Xhosa and Yoruba.

Walk in. Make your move.