InspirationEvery day, you sit in the same lecture hall, coffee shop, or gym as dozens of people who share your exact interests. You leave as strangers.
Existing apps like Tinder rely on swiping and GPS — they broadcast your location to a server and build a database of everywhere you've been. Happn shows you who you crossed paths with hours later. None of them tell you who is in the same room as you right now.
Visimity solves this using Bluetooth Low Energy — the radio already in every smartphone. Open the app and it silently discovers nearby users, computes a real-time interest compatibility score, and lets you reach out — optionally anonymously — without a single GPS coordinate ever leaving your device.
The anonymous first message was the key insight from 30+ customer discovery interviews: people want to connect with nearby strangers, but only if the bar to say the first thing is low enough. Once both sides accept, it escalates to a full real-time chat.
We have a working iOS MVP running on two physical iPhones today — BLE discovery, interest matching, anonymous messaging, and live chat, all functional end-to-end. We're targeting university campuses first: the most socially active, BLE-dense environments we can reach immediately.
The window is real. BLE is on every phone. No consumer social app has used it as a primary discovery layer. We have. That's Visimity.
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