You were built for a fire. For breaking bread. For the handful of people who know your story and the friends who'd help you move. PUIRL exists to get you back to what's real.
Social media was supposed to connect us. Instead, it optimized for attention, not connection. For reach, not depth. For followers, not friends. The result is a generation that has never been more digitally connected and never felt more alone.
The problem isn't that people don't want community. They do. Desperately. The problem is that every platform rewards the wrong things. You get points for posting, not for pulling up. For going viral, not for being present. For collecting strangers, not for investing in the people who matter.
Every feature in PUIRL is designed around a single question: does this bring people together in real life? If the answer is no, we didn't build it.
We don't show you follower counts. We show you how many times you've crossed paths. We don't give you likes. We give you a Pull Up Score: your own track record of being there, built by you and no one else.
In the 1990s, anthropologist Robin Dunbar studied how big our real social worlds can get. By comparing brain size and group size across primates, he found the layers that pull up in every human community.
Most apps are built to grow your numbers. More followers. More friends. More connections. We built PUIRL to do the opposite.
PUIRL is designed around roughly 120 real relationships, because that's what a human life can actually hold. It's not a limitation. It's the most important thing we built.
When your circle has edges, every person inside it earned their spot. A close circle you built over two years of pulling up is worth more than 10,000 followers who've never met you.
Get your invite from a friend. Or join the waitlist for your city.