IRL Corner
A Win IRL neighborhood app
Know the neighbors your kids could walk to.
The person walking their dog past your house every day is a stranger. IRL Corner rebuilds the first layer of a neighborhood — knowing who's who — for the ~20 households your kids could walk to. Every field is opt-in. It's never a feed, and your data is never for sale.
How a Corner starts
You can't start one alone — and that's the point. Founding a Corner means walking to two neighbors and doing it together, standing in a driveway, in about five minutes.
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Found it in a driveway
Walk to two neighbors you already know, show them the app, and start your Corner together. Three households is the seed — no Corner begins alone.
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Add faces & names
“The blue house on Elm.” “Max, the golden retriever.” Share as little or as much as you like — every field is opt-in, per person.
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Neighbors vouch neighbors
Joining takes a vouch from two verified members: “Yes, that's Josh at the blue house, I've met him.” No ID uploads, no credit checks — ever.
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Actually know your street
Greet the dog-walker by name. Borrow a tall ladder. Throw a fire-pit Friday. The trust layer everything else is built on.
Not another town-sized feed
Rings, not one big feed
Nextdoor collapsed every distance into one municipal feed. IRL Corner keeps rings structurally separate — different jobs, different trust. Content never bleeds from one ring into another.
Corner
Faces and names, borrowing, block parties, watch-out-for-each-other. Fully identified, strongly verified. This is v1.
Neighborhood
“Three people within a 15-minute walk also fly-fish.” Affinity at walking distance — where friendships actually form.
Town
A containment vessel for civic fights and vendor chatter, so they never poison the Corner. Built last — or not at all.
No feed
Announcements and direct messages — not an attention machine. No comment threads, which is where neighbor poison brews.
No ads, no targeting
Local sponsors get a place, never a voice — a banner on the outfield fence, not a spot in your feed. No auctions, no boosts.
Never for sale
No data sale, no sharing, no ad targeting — structurally. There's no advertising system your neighbor data could flow into.
For neighbors 🏡
- An opt-in directory of the people right around your corner
- Found in a driveway; joined with a neighbor's vouch
- Announcements & DMs — no feed, no comment-section poison
- Your data is never sold, shared, or targeted
For local businesses 🔨
- A quiet “supported by” banner — a place, not a voice
- Sponsor the block party, not a feed
- Neighbor-vouched localness — no PE roll-ups, no chains
- Flat, small, non-exclusive pricing. No auctions, ever