N.B.: This is a real, not AI-generated, pretty long article, so I'm not sure if anyone will actually read it through, and hooray to you if you will, but I've poured my soul into it, so posted it as it is, sorry ADHD people.

N.B. : Yes, I use em-dash, because it's correct grammar and I was taught to write like that since school, and I think it looks much better than a MINUS sign.

Realy — an app that helps to find and nurture deep friendships.

First of all, I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who believed and continues to believe in me and our idea, to my wonderful team, and to everyone who contributed to the project. What we have achieved is thanks to you; I just had the good fortune to bring you all together. Without you, none of this would have been possible.

Hello. My name is Nikita Arnett, and my team and I are working on cultivating a deeper type of human-friendship relationship to eventually solve the problem of loneliness on our Planet. It's all the hype things : social media without the media part with our Deep Friendship AI at its core, but all these things are not the point. Hear me out.

The problem.

There are so many layers to this problem.

Loneliness is as old as humanity itself. Each of us has felt lonely at some point in our lives. When we are surrounded by people but don't feel connected to them, when we have no one to go to an event or for a walk with, when we move to another country or city, or when our friends and acquaintances are busy on a Friday evening and we really want to go out, hang out, have a drink or just have breakfast, lunch or dinner with someone.

But these days it's all shifting to another level. We’ve suddenly found ourselves in a world where loneliness has become chronic for billions of people. And I mean it, it's not a typo. According to The Global State of Social Connections report, currently on Planet Earth, there are around 2 billion human beings who feel lonely.

In rainy and foggy Britain alone, 9 million people experience loneliness constantly, which is one in seven of the country's population, and more than half of them are under the age of 45. Forty-six percent of people in the United States also feel lonely all the time. That means that in the US and the UK alone, more than 150 million people feel lonely.

An important clarification: being alone, being in solitude, living without a partner, is not the same as feeling lonely. You can be surrounded by people, be married, have children, and still feel lonely.

Loneliness is a purely subjective, individual feeling. If you feel lonely, then you are lonely.

We find ourselves in a paradoxical situation where loneliness has become one of the most popular factors uniting us as a species.

On the one hand, we are as connected as possible through means of communication, but at the same time, we’re drifting further apart than ever.

We have stopped feeling connected to each other, and relationships between people have become superficial, especially for people in big cities. Alienation and thin, sometimes shallow surface-level connections have become the new status quo. We decided to change that.

Realy.

We've created a human-first AI platform for finding and nurturing real, close, deep connections, deep friendships.

Because the problem is not that it's very hard to find new humans, the problem is that it has become extremely hard to create a deep bond with others. That's why we are building for closeness and quality rather than quantity.

We believe that it is important not to limit yourself to a huge number of superficial connections, but to try to get to know people, open up, build strong, deep connections with them, consciously work on this, and not wait for friendship to fall into your lap, but to do something to achieve it.

Therefore, on one hand, our platform is for people who are tired of the current state of human connections. Of superficial, surface-level connections that don't go deep. Who wants a place where they will find understanding, openness, and interest, where they can share their experiences and accept those of others. On the other hand, it is for those who are ready to do something about it, who are ready to take the first step towards meeting new people, and even more steps to go deeper with them.

We are needed as a safe place where you will be understood, heard, accepted, and wanted as a friend — a place where everyone has come for exactly that.

We are needed as a tool that really works for your benefit, not draining your brain chemistry, and your wallet without providing a meaningful contribution to your life.

We are a response to the current state of social media, friendship apps, content, internet. We are for those who feel tired of social media in its current form. Tired of content. Of being treated like an endless attention resource.

Realy. Join our fight. Download here.

How does the Realy app work? (link to another article)