A private network for builders
Find your people.
Build your idea.
Match with the humans behind the work — their idea, their values, the hours they actually have free. Then trade skills, share equity, and ship something you're both proud of.
94%match
Maya Velasquez
Lisbon@mayav · 29
Superpower
Full-stack engineer with a soft spot for design
Working on
A second brain for therapists
Private notes, session prep and follow-up nudges — built for solo practices that don't want to use clunky enterprise software.
Values
calm workhigh autonomyno rush to raise
30h/wkCo-founder · design-leaning
4,200+
members
318
co-founder pairs
£2.4M
value exchanged
94%
feel safer to share
How it works
Three steps to a shipping partner.
01
Tell us about you
A quiet, beautiful profile. Your superpower, your values, your hours, your idea. The Vibe Check takes 3 minutes and shapes who you see.
02
Match with humans
Swipe through people, not CVs. Mutual opt-in only. Your business idea stays in the Vault until you both say yes.
03
Build together
Become co-founders. Or trade your design for their code. Built-in NDAs, sweat-equity agreements and a shared Circle to keep it real.
Inside the network
Meet a few of the people building here.
84%match
Nadia Wahlberg
Stockholm@nadia_w · 28
Superpower
Backend engineer · Go, Postgres, payment rails
Working on
Subscription manager for freelancers
All your client retainers in one place — invoicing, cadence, gentle pause-and-resume. Built for one-person studios.
Values
small teamshonest pricingless software
18h/wkTrade backend for brand design
89%match
Kai Lee
Singapore@kai_lee · 31
Superpower
iOS engineer · SwiftUI native, ex-Notion
Working on
A walking app for first-time mums
Gentle, social, baby-led routes around your neighbourhood. Not a fitness tracker — a friend who suggests you go outside.
Values
slow techreal-world ritualsno streaks
22h/wkCo-founder · non-technical
91%match
Sami Adeleke
Berlin@sami_a · 27
Superpower
Growth lead · taken 3 SaaS from 0 to £100k MRR
Working on
A revenue dashboard that respects your time
Weekly digest of what moved, what's stuck, what to fix. No real-time graphs. Made for founders, not finance teams.
Values
focused workfewer dashboardswriting > meetings
20h/wkCo-founder · technical
The Exchange
Trade what you have. Get what you need.
Cash is tight when you're bootstrapping. So post a bounty: 10% equity for a UI designer. Three months of SEO for a Next.js build. A weekend of legal in exchange for a weekend of branding. Small, fair, built on trust.
Equity ↔ SkillSkill ↔ SkillShort retainersAuto-generated agreements
Open the Exchange →A UI designer for my mental-health MVP
Offers: 10% equity OR Rust backend in trade
Maya · Lisbon2h ago
Trading SEO + content for a Next.js landing build
Offers: 3 months SEO + 12 articles (~£8k value)
Nat · Brighton6h ago
Long-COVID app needs an iOS engineer · 5% equity
Offers: 5% equity + £400/mo retainer
Dr. Aanya · ManchesterYesterday ago
Maya & you
Circle opened · day 3
Loved your idea about therapist tools. Want to talk through the values bit before we go further?
Yes please. I want this to feel calm — no growth-at-all-costs.
Same. Sharing the deck in the Vault — NDA attached.
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Maya — pitch deck v3.pdf
Sealed · sign to view
The Circle
Where matches turn into trust.
Every match opens a Circle — a quiet, private space for two. Chat, share the Vault, sign agreements, and keep a gentle running log of what you've promised each other.
- ♥The Vault — pitch decks and IP stay sealed until you choose
- ♥Lawyer-light templates for NDAs, equity and barters
- ♥Per-deal log so nothing slips between the cracks
- ♥An eject button — walk away clean, no awkward emails
In their own words
Bootstrapped people. Real builds.
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Found my technical co-founder in week one. We'd been looking for nearly a year on Twitter. The Vibe Check did most of the work.
Nat
Brieflist (acquired 2026)
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Traded three months of growth ops for a full-stack rebuild. Worth £15k cash. Paid in trust and a tidy Notion doc.
Sami
Plinto
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The Vault is the thing. I've burned NDAs on lawyers before — now it's one click and a signature. Slept better immediately.
Dr. Aanya
Kindra Health
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