Live across 50+ countries · UK–Somaliland Corridor · Rolling Smoke Partner

The infrastructure
of Somali
connection.

One @handle. Every community from Loughborough to Hargeisa. No app. No algorithm. No data surrender. The sovereign digital address the Somaliland corridor has always needed.

REDISCOVER THE STRANGER.

@zim-london
Zimbabwean Diaspora Network · London, UK
Somali Diaspora 🇸🇴 +252 🇿🇼 +263 Zeus Zenith
2,100+
Members
18
Global Cities
£3,200
Monthly Treasury
0 apps
Required to Join
✓ Sovereign Handle · SIM-Verified · Privacy-Shielded
100K+
UK Somali Diaspora
280M
Global Diaspora
£1.7B
UK→Somalia Remittances (2023)
0
Apps Required
The Signal · Social Discovery

Set your signal.
Find your Social Space.

Not a dating app. Not a friendship matcher. Just an honest broadcast of what kind of connection you're open to — right now, in Loughborough, Leicester, London, or Hargeisa. No labels. Just signals. Works on any phone, even in Somaliland.

Grab a Coffee / Drink
VIBE: CASUAL · PLATONIC · NETWORKING
34 nearby
You're open to a casual meetup — a coffee, a quick drink, a walk. No agenda. Just good conversation with a stranger who might become something more.
🍽️
Shared Table
VIBE: SOCIAL · DINING · HANGING OUT
12 nearby
You're looking to share a table, a meal, a Social Space. The classic "third place" — somewhere between work and home where strangers become regulars.
Spark
VIBE: OPEN · AUTHENTIC · INTENTIONAL
8 nearby
You're open to something more. Not swiping, not searching — just honest availability for a real connection with the right stranger. Low pressure. High sincerity.
🏈
Game Day Partner
VIBE: SPORTS · TAILGATE · SIDELINE
21 nearby
Find someone to watch the match with. Whether it's the NFL, Premier League, or the Super Bowl — every game is better with a stranger who cares as much as you do.
Proximity Beacons · Blurred to District Level
Signal Active: Grab a Coffee
☕ Coffee Signal
~0.4 miles · Loughborough District
🍽️ Shared Table
~1.1 miles · Town Centre
✨ Spark Signal
~1.8 miles · Nearby District
🏈 Game Day Partner
~2.3 miles · West District
Broadcast my Signal (blurred to district level — individual location never shared)
Personal Handle Registry

Secure your sovereign identity

Your @handle is your permanent address — SIM-linked, privacy-shielded, and yours. Search availability and claim your place in the network.

@
Standard Handle
Included in Hermes Handle plan
Free
Vanity Handle PREMIUM
@Architect-Joe · @Global-Citizen · @Concert-Buddy
$49 one-time
Sovereign Handle ZEUS
@Your-Name · @Brand · @National-Flag handle
$199 /year

Sovereign Interest Engine

Tag your interests. Communities matching your profile discover you — you remain null-status until you choose to connect.

⚽ Football 🏉 Rugby 🎾 Tennis 🎵 Concert Buddy ☕ Coffee 🎓 Alumni 🍳 Cookery 🌍 Diaspora 🏈 Game Day 📷 Photography 💼 Business 🎨 Arts
🛡
Null-Status Active. Your interest profile is visible only to the Heyy-U routing engine. You remain anonymous to all groups until you initiate the handshake.
Platform Architecture

High-tech. Low-fi.
Human first.

Community Handle Registry

Claim your community's permanent @handle — a sovereign address in the Heyy-U network, globally discoverable, linked via JoinIt's verified membership infrastructure.

Zero-Friction Access

Members join in under 10 seconds. No app. No form. No email surrendered. Just your @handle and any connected device. The lowest barrier to belonging ever built.

🏛️
Sovereign Treasury
Opt-In Commerce Engine

Members control which brands reach them. Every opted-in transaction flows a revenue share to your community treasury — no ads, no data sales, no compromise.

🌐
New Layer
Global Member Discovery

Your community becomes discoverable worldwide. Diaspora members find local chapters across borders. Belonging follows the person, not the postcode.

🏷️
Physical World Integration

Your @handle on every surface your community occupies — kit, venue, merchandise. Any physical touchpoint becomes an instant membership gateway. A hoodie is a portal.

🛡️
Member Anonymity Architecture

The first membership system built around member sovereignty. Members are known to you; invisible to everyone else. Privacy is a design requirement, not a feature.

The Olympian Structure

Sovereign Plans

Four tiers for every scale of community — from the individual handle to the global mesh. All plans include JoinIt's full membership infrastructure.

Entry
Hermes
Hermes Handle
The Messenger. For individuals and small communities establishing their handle.
$0
/month · Free forever
No card required

  • Register 1 personal @handle
  • Up to 100 members
  • Zero-friction join flow
  • JoinIt Lite tools included
  • Heyy-U global discovery listing
Diaspora
Demeter
Demeter Delivery
The Nurturer. For diaspora networks, nonprofits, and communities with a sovereign treasury.
£2
/member/month
Or free with commerce opt-in

  • Cross-border discovery
  • Sovereign Treasury engine
  • City-chapter activation
  • Handshake Token rewards
  • Diaspora commerce marketplace
  • Members free with commerce opt-in
Enterprise
Zeus
Zeus Zenith
The Sovereign. For large organisations, sports federations, and MNO partners.
$199
/month from

  • Unlimited @handles & members
  • Brand Partnership Marketplace
  • MNO integration (O2/Vodafone/MTN)
  • White-label portal
  • Full commerce analytics suite
  • Dedicated sovereignty architect
Sports & National Discovery

Your sport. Your flag.
Your people.

Sport-specific community handles linked to national dialing codes — connecting clubs, federations, and fans across borders with zero friction.

Football without borders

Whether you run a grassroots club or a supporters' federation across four continents, your @handle is the hub. Print it on the kit. Away fans find local chapters. Clubs discover talent through interest-tagged scouts — zero app downloads required.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿@bristol-city-fc-official4,200
🇳🇬@super-eagles-fans-london1,840
🇧🇷@brasil-futebol-uk2,100
🇺🇸@us-soccer-abroad-community3,400
Select Nation
🇬🇧+44
🇺🇸+1
🇳🇬+234
🇿🇼+263
🇧🇷+55
🇿🇦+27
🇮🇳+91
🇬🇭+233
Rugby communities that run themselves

High volunteer turnover, seasonal membership cycles, cross-national touring — solved by the @handle layer. Print it on the shirt. New members join at training. Touring squads find host club members in any city. The club treasury grows while admin shrinks.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿@bristol-rugby-community1,203
🇿🇦@springboks-supporters-uk3,800
🇳🇿@all-blacks-expats-europe2,460
🇺🇸@usa-rugby-community-uk1,020
Match-Day Flow
@bristol-rugby JOIN
Welcome, member #1,204. Digital membership card ready. Treasury this month: £1,840 from opted-in commerce. No fundraiser needed. 🏉
Tennis clubs. Zero administration.

Members carry their @handle to any venue worldwide. Visiting players find local hitting partners via interest tags. Tournament organisers reach participants through opt-in channels — no email blasts, no lost replies. LTA federations on Zeus Zenith gain full cross-club network visibility.

🎾@wimbledon-community-members6,200
🇬🇧@lta-grassroots-network18,400
🇺🇸@usta-community-global9,200
🇿🇼@tennis-zim-diaspora480
Visitor Discovery

A visiting member from Jo'burg texts @lta-grassroots VISIT-LONDON and receives: 3 clubs with courts available today, 2 matched skill-level players who opted in to visitor matches, 24hr guest token — no form, no admin.

The Somaliland Diaspora Cup.

Heyy-U's Digital Flag system activates the first sovereign Somali diaspora football tournament in the UK. @heyy-u252 is the national handle. Local chapters — @heyy-u252-lboro, @heyy-u252-leicester, @heyy-u252-london — organise matches by SMS. No WhatsApp chaos. No admin collapse. Just handles and community.

🇸🇴@heyy-u252-lboroLoughborough chapter
🇸🇴@heyy-u252-leicesterLeicester chapter
🇿🇼@heyy-u263-leicesterZimbabwe–Somali match
🏆@diaspora-cup-2026National final handle
Diaspora Cup Format
Entry: £500 per team · 8 national flag teams
Venue: Birmingham or Leicester
Revenue: £6K–£15K per event
Media: BBC Somali Service broadcast
Frequency: Quarterly
Handle: @diaspora-cup-2026

Rolling Smoke sponsors the event catering. @rolling-smoke-lboro becomes the community's most recognised commercial handle.
Cricket. Culture. Community.

Cricket is the sport of the diaspora — from the Caribbean to South Asia, East Africa to the Pacific. Heyy-U handles connect these communities in ways no existing platform has attempted.

🏏@caribbean-cricket-uk2,840
🇮🇳@british-indian-cricket-assoc4,100
🇸🇴@somali-cricket-uk420
🇺🇸@us-cricket-expats-uk920
The First Digital Flag System

Every nation's dialing code becomes a Heyy-U handle prefix. @heyy-u263 is Zimbabwe's sovereign digital assembly. @heyy-u1 is the United States'. These are not just identifiers — they are the first permanent infrastructure for diaspora communities to find each other by nationality, in any district, across any border.

🇺🇸@heyy-u144,200 active
🇬🇧@heyy-u4438,420 active
🇸🇴@heyy-u2526,840 active
🇮🇳@heyy-u9122,100 active
Select Your Flag
🇺🇸@heyy-u1
🇬🇧@heyy-u44
🇳🇬@heyy-u234
🇸🇴@heyy-u252
🇧🇷@heyy-u55
🇿🇦@heyy-u27
🇮🇳@heyy-u91
🇬🇭@heyy-u233
Strategic Partner

BBC Somali Service.
24 million listeners.
One response layer.

The BBC Somali Service reaches 24 million people across the Horn of Africa and the global Somali diaspora. Their challenge: listeners engage but cannot respond, connect, or act. Heyy-U is the infrastructure that turns broadcast into community.

📻
@bbc-somali Handle
Every broadcast ends: "Text @bbc-somali to connect with your community." Listeners respond, find each other, and act — via any SMS phone, anywhere.
🏴
@heyy-u252 Community
The BBC activates the Somaliland national handle as a community broadcast + response layer. @heyy-u252-lboro, @heyy-u252-hargeisa — sovereign and local simultaneously.
🔥
Rolling Smoke × BBC Food
@rolling-smoke-lboro sponsors the @bbc-somali-food community channel. Loughborough Somali community discovers Rolling Smoke through a trusted national broadcast partner.
Heritage Pulse · Global Network

The invisible city made visible

Real-time anonymised community density at district level. No individual location is ever identified. Minimum resolution: district.

The Heyy-U Game Suite · Rediscover the Stranger

Connection through
play.

Four ways to break the ice, find a thread, and discover that the stranger across the room might just be the most interesting person you'll meet today.

WEEK 21 · ACTIVE
Connect all node pairs without crossing paths
00:00
Sovereign Orange Node
Heritage Amber Node
Sovereign Green Node
Sentinel Purple Node
🏆 Handshake Token Unlocked
Use in Demeter Delivery commerce engine
Weekly Leaderboard · Anonymous Handles
1.@Stranger-420:47
2.@Artemis-Scout1:02
3.@Hermes-Node1:18
Common Thread Relay · 60 Seconds
Find 5 things in common with a stranger
60
WEEK'S FOCUS: Somali–UK Connection
What do you and the stranger next to you share that crosses borders?
Think beyond what you can see. Fears, habits, childhood memories, secret skills, inexplicable loves.
Your answers stay on your device. Zero data transmitted.
🎉 Thread Complete! Relay your strongest connection
Your job: take the most interesting thing you found in common and relay it to the next stranger. Ask them: "Do you also ?" The thread continues.
PROTECT THIS CONNECTION · CLAIM YOUR @HANDLE
The Unfinished Portrait

No chat. No words. One stroke at a time. Your partner responds to your mark. The portrait reveals both of you by what you build together.

🎨
Waiting for your first stroke...
@Anonymous-Partner
PORTRAIT COMPLETE
Meet your co-creator.
Your partner's identity is now revealed. The strokes you made together tell a story neither of you could have created alone.
PROTECT THIS CONNECTION · CLAIM YOUR @HANDLE
STROKE 0 / 10
Deposit a harmless secret
Something true about you that most people don't know. Harmless. Interesting. Honest. It is stored anonymously — your identity is never attached.
Active Secrets from Strangers
Meet the Secret.
3:00
Both of you claimed each other's secret. A 3-minute window is open. No profiles. No photos. Just the two secrets that connected you. After the window closes, it is gone forever.
Seasonal & Cultural Takeovers

Every season.
Every culture.
Every crowd.

Heyy-U shifts with the calendar — matching the energy of the moment, wherever you are in the world.

🎃
Fall · October
Unmask the Stranger
Halloween
Anonymity as power. The Signal shifts to masked discovery. The tagline becomes: "Rediscover the Ghost."
NOW ACTIVE 🎪
Summer · Coachella · Glastonbury · Burning Man
Find Your Tribe in the Crowd
The Hub
Location-based festival discovery. Find the strangers in the crowd who share your handle tags. The music stops. The connection doesn't.
🌍
Juneteenth · Cinco de Mayo · St. Patrick's · Heritage Days
Root Connections
Cultural Day
Cultural heritage days activate national flag handles worldwide. @heyy-u252 pulses on Somaliland Republic Day (18 May). @heyy-u263 pulses on Zimbabwe Independence. Communities find each other globally.
🏈
NFL · NBA · Super Bowl · Playoffs · Tailgate Season
The Sideline
Game Day
Find your Game Day Partner within 2 miles. Tailgate communities activate by stadium handle. The Signal mode shifts to Sports — every match, every city, every Social Space.
Sovereign Social IQ · Client-Side Only

Discover your Archetype

10 questions. Zero data transmitted. Receive your Social Sovereignty Score and Digital Passport.

Question 1 of 10

PROTECT THIS CONNECTION · CLAIM YOUR @HANDLE

Your handle is waiting.

Join the waitlist for Heyy-U × JoinIt. Existing JoinIt organisations receive priority access and free handle registration.

Protect this connection. Claim your @handle. · sacha@heyy-u.com