17Nu
NuRenN 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 room opens later
The room comes alive at set times. Drop in when it opens to meet who’s here.
the cyphertap to join
17NuConnect
@you
scan to connect
hold their code in the frame
which code do I show?
Yoursthe card on this screen. For somebody you just met and want to stay in touch with — they get your face, your line, your element.
The rooma door, not a person. On a table, a flyer, the end of a deck. Anyone scans it and lands in the waiting room.
The elementalso on the room screen. Three minutes, no account, and they walk away with a card — the easiest thing to hand somebody who is curious but not ready.
A room code is for a crowd you have not met. Yours is for the conversation that actually landed.
your connections
Welcome to the room
One question, then you're in.
what brings you here? pick any — you can change it later
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 your mood on the rail — how you’re feeling right now — and the totem you leave when you see someone. Under your card in the waiting room is what brings you here: your intention, the durable reason that rides as the dot on your orb. Set it once, change it when your season shifts.
  2. Cross the door. The room opens at set times, and the waiting room tells you which night is next, who’s inside, and how long is left. Some nights hold at the door until enough people are there — so nobody ever walks into an empty room.
  3. Resonate. Press it and the room stills. People carrying one of your moods drift to you and light up — same as life: the frequency you hold shapes what gathers around you.
  4. Reach someone. Tap a face, leave your totem, say a line. A gold thread draws between you — that’s the connection, made visible. And Collab Spaces is where the room’s work sits between nights: put something on the table, stand with what somebody else put up.
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.
someone handed you their card
@someone
from the host
you're hosting · everyone in the room sees this

The room is free.

Keeping it lit isn’t.

Every room you walk into online is paid for by someone. Usually by selling your attention to a person you will never meet, for a purpose you were never told.

We are not doing that here. No ads, no feed ranking your people by who spent the most, no algorithm deciding who you see. That is a choice, and choices cost money.

So the arrangement is plain:

Showing up is free. Forever. Walking into the room, drifting by mood, reading the table, meeting whoever is here — that never costs anything, and it never will. Presence is the product. It should not have a price.

Signal is the layer that lasts between rooms.

Your tribe, kept. The people you locked in with stay yours — names, cards, the thread you started — instead of thinning out after the night ends.
The full Mirror. The nine questions give a social read. The Mirror goes into formation, shadow side, and lineage — the reading you sit with, not the one you share.
Your board, saved and turned. The panels people read after they meet you, with a new prompt offered on a cadence so your page is alive rather than filed.
The Sunday brief. What the rooms held that week, who came through, what the table landed on. One email. No tracking pixels.

Three dollars a month. Less than the coffee you would have bought on the way to meeting someone here.

If it is not worth that yet, it is not worth that yet. Come to another room first. The door is open either way.

Become Signal · $3 a month →
Presence in the room stays free whatever you choose. Cancel any time — nothing you made here is taken back.

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 Topic
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 Nu Events Healing Space Mind Work Legacy
Tap in
Speak your truth — it 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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Get seen by people who
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.

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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. Nothing runs yet — this holds the slot.
2
Send your artwork
Brand name, one line, a link, and one image, to the spec below. That image is the card — it fills the whole tile.
3
We review it
Two working days. We check fit for the room and that the words sit legibly on your image. If something needs changing we send it back with the reason.
4
It goes live
You get a note with the date it starts and the date it ends. If we can't place it, the payment is returned in full.
What to send
Image1360 × 1020 px (4:3), JPG or PNG under 500KB. It fills the whole card.
Safe areaKeep the subject above the lower third. The bottom of the card darkens so the words stay readable — anything down there disappears under it.
No baked-in textDon't put your name, tagline or logo lockup into the image. We set those in type, over the image, so they stay sharp and legible on every screen.
Brand nameUp to 22 characters before it wraps to a second line.
One lineAbout 75 characters. It clamps at two lines and truncates past that.
CategoryOne or two words — "leather goods", "footwear". Not "sponsored"; the card is labelled partner automatically.
LinkOpens in a new tab. https only.

What you're buying is the slot for the period, not a guaranteed impression count. At one card every three days that works out to roughly two or three views per active member per week. Anyone in the room can dismiss a card, and we don't show it to them again — that rule is what makes the slot worth having.

04Send your card details

This opens an email to the Nu team with your card filled in. Attach your 1360×1020 image to that email, or paste a link to it. 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
head & shoulders · no filters · this one gets the tick
You’re looking as a guest. Give your face and the room gives you back.