17Nu
Connect
putting the social back in social media
where connection is currency · no lurking allowed
a glimpse inside
people drift in by mood — your portrait joins them when you step in
welcome back
log in with the email & password you registered.
— or —
the room feels warm
connecting…
✦ click what resonates
the cyphertap to join
Welcome to the room
👆🏽
Tap a face to step closer — leave your totem, or say hi. No lurking; presence is the point.
🎭
Set your mood at the bottom — people on your frequency get pulled into your orbit.
🤝🏽
When you both lock in, they join your Tribe — yours to keep.
what brings you here? pick any — you can change it in You
by stepping in, you agree to keep it respectful — no harassment, hate, or explicit content. you can report or make anyone invisible from their card. questions: nurenn@nurenaissance.org
how are you showing up? tap to share — up to 3
✦ how the room works
1
Show up. Set how you're feeling and the mark you leave when you see someone — your totem. That's your presence.
2
Tune the room. Tap what resonates. The people on your frequency get pulled into your orbit — same as life: the frequency you hold shapes what gathers around you. Some call that reality.
3
Reach someone. Tap a face, leave your totem or say hi. A gold thread draws between you — that's the connection, made visible.
4
Step into the cypher. An open circle, anyone welcome — come and go like the room itself.
No likes. No counts. No feed. Presence is the only currency — and the point is to take it into the real world.
how are you showing up?
✦ the mark you leave when you see someone
✦ claim today · just for you
acknowledge them
send a signal · a quiet hello, your read
— or open a sidebar —
report someone
this goes to the NuRenN team and is reviewed within 24 hours. they’ll also be made invisible to you.
or email care@nurenaissance.org
sidebar
live · drifts in 3 days
pull someone in
vouch for someone in the room — they'll get an invite to join the huddle.

Attention is power.

We are reclaiming it.

Somewhere along the way, the places we go to feel close to people turned our attention into the product — and started selling it by the inch.

The feed is full. The room is loud. And still — you scroll alone, in a crowd, watching strangers perform while no one quite sees you.

A whole generation is lonelier than ever, inside the most connected machine ever built.

Public-health leaders now call isolation a crisis on the scale of a daily health risk — the U.S. Surgeon General puts lacking connection in the same breath as smoking up to fifteen cigarettes a day, and the more we scroll without being met, the worse it tends to get.

✦ THE QUIET CRISIS Being disconnected is now as deadly as smoking… 15 CIGARETTES A DAY A whole generation is lonelier than ever — inside the most connected machine ever built. We were never built to scroll alone. U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory · 2023 ✦ NuRenN CONNECT

So we built the opposite of a feed.

No follower counts. No metrics to chase. No algorithm deciding who deserves to be seen. Just real faces, present on purpose — and the quiet, radical act of acknowledging one another.

The only reward here is connection.

You leave a totem. Someone nods back. A conversation sparks, or it doesn't. You meet someone on your frequency, and maybe — like it's supposed to — it spills into the real world. A run at the park. A coffee. A call.

✊🏾 👑 🤎 ✦ 🕊️ 🤝🏾

And then you leave — full, not hooked. That's the whole design. We don't want your endless hours. We want you to feel met, and go live your life.

This is a space to be seen, and to see.

To reclaim your attention — and spend it on each other.

I am. We are.
more blossoms · less is more
scarcity keeps it meaningful. even these are capped per day — you can never spray.
a blossom means something because you only have a few. ✦ sparks & 🤝🏽 hellos are always free.
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NuRenN Connect
Read the Room Collab Spaces Tribe Profile

Collab Spaces

the cypher · take a turn, build on each other
✦ Today's Table
Black-Owned Business
Put a Black-owned business, brand, or maker on. We're investing in each other — build the directory together.
refreshes in —
Today Culture Teachers’ Lounge Money Moves Healing · soon Legacy · soon
Speak your truth — the table runs clean, so the rough edges get softened.
No bars yet. Take the mic and start the build — it shows up on everyone's screen, live.

Your Tribe

small circles of your people, sorted by the part of your life they’re in. see who’s in the room; drop a flare.
— everyone you’ve locked in —
No one locked in yet. When you and someone both lock in from a sidebar, they land here — your circle, kept close. Lock in up to 9.
✦ pull up
kickball in the park — who's in?
a reason to gather. fresh ideas through the week — in-your-area picks coming soon.
🔗 drop a link
the spot · the tickets · the recipe — keep it in the tribe.
🧭 your type
a quick read for your people — then go deeper with your Bond element.
at the core · Bond
find your vibe · your tribe · your person
six elements. one mirror. the system built for us.
take the Mirror →
YOUR PROFILE
NURENN CONNECT · ZEP TEPI

One step to go live

This is the real, multiplayer Nu — but it needs your free Firebase keys to connect phones together.

1. Make a free project at firebase.google.com
2. Add a Realtime Database (test mode)
3. Copy your firebaseConfig into the top of this file where it says PASTE CONFIG
4. Re-upload. Done — phones will see each other.

Until then, you're seeing the connect screen only.

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Connect · Sponsor the Room

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actually show up.

No lurkers. No bots. Connect is a room of real faces, present on purpose. When your brand appears here, it's in front of people leaning in — not scrolling past.

the room feels warm · 23 here now
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This is the live slot. It rotates inside the room every few seconds — your card sits in the same rotation.
01Spotlight placements3 of 5 slots open

The room holds a limited number of spotlight slots — kept few on purpose, so each one is actually seen. NuRenN fills any open slots by default; when you take one, your card rotates ahead of ours. There's always at least one NuRenN card in the room.

A Week in the Room
7 days · 1 card in rotation
A taste. Your card cycles in the spotlight for a week — good for a drop, an event, or a first look at the room.
$49 / week
Most chosen
A Month on the Wall
30 days · 1 card in rotation
Steady presence. A full month in the spotlight rotation, plus one feature in the weekly Nu brief. Enough time for people to remember the name.
$149 / month
A Season of Presence
90 days · priority slot
For partners building something lasting. A priority slot all season, a brief feature, and a standing line in the room's local events bulletin where it fits.
$349 / season

We curate. Black-owned brands come first, and not everything gets in — the room stays a place people trust. If it doesn't fit the room, we'll say so and send your payment back.

02Put an event in the roomshown to your city first

An event isn't a brand card — it has a date. So it lives in the room's event bulletin, the banner up top that's matched to each person's city. Your gathering, drop, or show goes in front of the people closest to it, until it's over.

City-matched
Event Bulletin
runs until your date · one city
Your event in the top banner of the room, shown first to people in your city. A pulse of light, a "pull up" tap straight to your link. Perfect for a function, a pop-up, a release.
$79 / event
03How it works
1
Reserve your slot
Pick a placement above and check out. Takes a minute.
2
Send your card
Drop your brand name, one line, a link, and a logo or image in the form below. That's what people see in the room.
3
We curate it in
We review for fit and place your card in the rotation, usually within two days. You'll get a note when it's live.
04Send your card details

This opens an email to the Nu team with your card filled in. Payment is handled separately at the placement button above.

a space inside the NuRenN ecosystem
Questions? nurenn@nurenaissance.org
Nu · Connect — putting the social back in social media