Register once with an email & password. Log in from any phone, anytime — your face and your Tribe come with you.
Real faces. No filters, no likes, no follower counts. The only reward is connection.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
This opens an email to the Nu team with your card filled in. Payment is handled separately at the placement button above.