Friends01 / friends
The small stuff that makes a city feel like yours. Hobbies, habits, and the Tuesday-night people.
HikingBoard GamesPhotographyReadingMusicCooking
5★ · soulmate
nexi
/ˈnek-see/
Real Life. Real Connection.
A live map of the people already around you. For friends, dating, and work.
One email. The day it launches. 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
Nearby. Compatible. Not a swipe carousel. Real people in your radius — not strangers in another zip code.
AdventureDiningDancingTravelArtWine
5★ · match
Business03 / business
Within walking distance. Not a Zoom invite. Collaborators, hires, and peers who are already in the room.
StartupsDesignEngineeringInvestingMarketingLeadership
5★ · partner
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 fill themselves.
Build a group with rules — Religion = Catholic AND Age 25–35 — and Nexi auto-sorts your matches into it. Rules run on profile attributes like religion, age, interests, MBTI, and profession. Done in 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.
And: full theme customization, daily-streak XP, community-suggested interests, group event hosting, 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.
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 private radius around where you live. Inside it, your pin doesn't appear on anyone's map — full stop. No “low-accuracy mode,” no “approximate location.” You vanish. The friend who lives across the hall sees the same blank space everyone else does.
Nobody sees exactly where you are.
Even when you're visible on the map, your pin isn't your exact spot. We show an approximate, blurred position — so the person two blocks over knows you're nearby, but not which café, which corner, or which side of the street. The blur re-randomizes each time your location updates. Close enough to find. Not your doorstep.
Three modes. Three audiences. Zero leakage.
Friends, Dating, and Business are separate identities — each with its own photos and bio. The app only ever surfaces the mode someone discovered you in, so the coworker who finds you in Business mode sees only your professional profile, never your dating one.
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 like count. No public leaderboard. No “people you may know.” No algorithmic timeline ranking your social life. The map is the feed, and when you close the app, the feed closes with you. (Nexi does have private XP and a personal check-in streak — visible only to you, never ranked against anyone else.)
We don't sell what we know about you.
We don't run ads. We don't build a profile of you to sell to advertisers. We don't share your location with third parties. The business model is the app — eventually a small 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.
FAQ
Questions we get a lot.
Plainspoken answers. If you don't see yours, email us.
It's a dating app and a friend-finding app and a professional networking app. Three modes. One account. Disable any of them whenever.
Everyone you see is physically near you, not curated from across the country. And there's no swipe deck — just a map, a tap, a bio, a decision.
Friend-finding apps surface compatible strangers anywhere. Nexi surfaces compatible strangers within walking distance.
LinkedIn is for the connections you already had. Nexi is for the engineer two tables over.
Yes — friends, dating, business, the map, the chats, all free forever. We may add an optional paid tier later for power features. The version that does the actual job stays free.
Stays on your phone. We share an approximate, blurred position with people in your radius. Never written precisely to our servers, never shared, never sold.
At launch, yes. Android's on the roadmap.
A founder who got tired of the alternatives. ↓
I'd opened a social app every day for ten years and couldn't remember the last one that made me feel social.
The bar with one open table, three people on their phones. Dating apps full of strangers in cities I'd never been to. LinkedIn job announcements with cry-laughing emoji. None of it bad, exactly. None of it social.
The people I actually wanted to meet were almost always within a five-minute walk of me — and I had no way to find them. The same regulars at my coffee shop every morning. I'd never said hi to one of them. 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. We'll send one message — the day it ships, in your city, on your phone.
See you out there.
— Roman
One email. The day it launches. That's it.