Our story

I built the app I wished existed twenty years ago.

I'm Nida. I'm an introvert who spent two decades intentionally building one of the richest networks I know — not through luck, but through discipline, care, and a lot of dinners.

I tried. I really tried. Over the years I tested more than fifteen apps trying to piece together a system that worked — apps for managing contacts, apps for hosting gatherings, apps for staying in touch, apps for meeting new people. None of them solved the whole problem. None of them were built for the full spectrum of relationships a person actually has. So I did what any slightly obsessed introvert-turned-connector would do — I started building it myself. IRL is everything I wished existed. All of it, in one place.

IRL is my answer to that. It's not a networking app. It's not a social feed. It's the app that helps you be a better human to the people already in your life — and helps you find the ones who are supposed to be.

— Nida