Pondid is launching in New York City and scaling neighborhood by neighborhood. Not country by country. Not a global rollout. Each neighborhood is its own world, and the goal is for each one to feel complete on its own.

The longer-term vision is a different shape of internet. One where attention flows toward the people and places that actually shape your life, where the things that get remembered are the things that actually happened, and where the social fabric of a neighborhood has a digital form that strengthens it instead of pulling people away from it. We’re building the internet that rewards being somewhere.