Coming to Kickstarter · 2026

Past the doomscroll.Into the room.

Every webpage is a community.
Now you can meet it.

A browser extension and mobile app that turns every website into a small community of people who share what you care about. Connect by interest — on any page of the web.

Join the launch list → How it works

Help us prove the web can feel human again.

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The problem

The internet didn't become
less social.

It just lost the layer that lets people see each other.

We scroll through endless feeds, visit the same websites every day, and share the same interests with thousands of others — and still pass each other invisibly. The connection isn't missing between us. It's missing from the web itself.

The solution

Not another platform.
A layer on top of the web
that makes people visible again.

Wherever people share an interest, weblin lets them see each other, talk, and build real conversations — without creating another account, joining another network, or fighting another algorithm.

One product, three ways in

Your interests already
brought you here.
Now meet everyone else they brought.

Avatars on every website. Thoughts that stay for seven days. A mobile app that carries it all. Built around the one thing that's always connected humans — the things they care about.

01 · Presence

Avatars on every page.

The other avatars are real people, on the same page as you in this moment. Wave, chat, call — all inside the browser.

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02 · Thoughts

A community on every page.

Leave a thought. Read what others left. Vote, reply, favorite the pages that matter. Every post fades after seven days.

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03 · Mobile

Take the rooms with you.

A feed of your favorite pages, a share-sheet into any URL, a private inbox. No email, no password — just your avatar, travelling with you.

The idea, in three sentences

The simplest thing we could build.
And also the most obvious.

People have always gathered around what they care about. The web already organized the world that way. We just made one small change.

01

People are defined by what they care about.

Astronomy. Cooking. A band nobody's heard of. A political cause. A strange corner of maths. The thing about people is — they find each other around the things.

02

The web is already organized around those interests.

Every topic on Earth has a page. Billions of pages — each one a room full of people who came for the same reason. Articles, products, forums, fan pages, wikis, blogs. The map of human curiosity, already built.

03

Until now, those rooms were empty.

You read the article. You left. You never saw who else was there. Billions of people, sharing the same interest in the same moment on the same page — invisible to each other. That's the thing we change.

Every page becomes a room. The room fills with the people who came for the same reason you did.

No account. No algorithm. No performance. Just the community that was always going to be there anyway — finally visible.

01 · Presence

The avatars are
actual people.

They're on the same page as you, in this moment. Same article. Same festival page. Same strange niche. A wave is a wave. A conversation is one click away.

  • One click to install. No account, ever.
  • Chat, private messages, voice or video — all inside the browser.
  • Move your avatar, react with emotes, pass things to other people's backpacks.
  • Not in the mood? One click. Silent. Gone until you come back.
Two weblin avatars standing beside webpages with speech bubbles
weblin Thoughts open on a MacBook — avatar menu, two thought panels, and a shared comment board
nytimes.com/the-loneliness-of-the-feed
LIVE DEMO
All thoughts fade after 7 days. No account needed.
02 · Thoughts

A community
on every page.

The web finally has a voice — and it isn't AI. Leave a thought on any article. Read what others wrote. Every page becomes a tiny, temporary forum, made by the people who cared enough to show up.

  • Post without an account. Post without performing.
  • Vote, reply, favorite pages — your own feed builds itself.
  • Posts fade after 7 days. No receipts. No baggage.
  • Chronological. No algorithm fighting for your attention — you came here on purpose.

We don't do infinite feeds.
We do feeds that end.

Chronological. Only the pages you chose. Only the last 7 days. The feed doesn't compete for your attention — you already came for the topic.

03 · Everywhere

The room doesn't close
when you close the laptop.

The weblin mobile app brings Thoughts, chats, and your rooms with you. No email. No password. Your avatar travels with a secret ID you control — anonymous by default, yours by design.

  • Feed — what's new on the pages you favorite, chronologically.
  • Share sheet — from any app, tap Share → weblin → walk into the room for that URL.
  • Inbox — replies to your thoughts and private messages, in one place.
  • Secret ID — no sign-up. Your identity lives on your phone, not ours.
Three iPhones showing the weblin mobile app — Feed, Share sheet, and Inbox
Four promises we made to ourselves

What weblin
will never do.

Four things we decided before we wrote a line of code. Four things that won't change if we get big, or if a VC walks in the door, or if the numbers slow down.

01

No algorithm.

Chronological only. We do not rank, boost, or reorder what you see. Your attention is not a product we sell.

02

No ads. No data sold.

Your URLs are hashed on your device before they leave. A patented mechanism. We couldn't sell what you read even if we wanted to.

03

Open source.

Every line of our code is public on GitHub. No black box, no hidden model, no dark pattern we could hide if we tried.

04

Non-profit in spirit.

We are not building the next ad network. If weblin survives, it's because people want it — not because we manufactured the want.

AI made the internet louder.
We're not fighting it.
We're just making a room in the web where it isn't invited.
Why I built this —

I'm writing this from my desk in Hamburg, the day before we go public.

For years I watched the same pattern. Someone reads a great article. Closes the tab. They learned something, maybe felt something — but there's nobody to talk to about it. So they open Instagram. Scroll. Forget.

The strange part is: other people read the same article. At the same time. Probably feeling the same thing. We just couldn't see each other.

weblin is the smallest possible fix. It doesn't replace your friends. It doesn't build another social network. It just makes visible the people who were already on the same page as you.

I don't know if we'll make it all the way. But I know we'll have tried to build one thing on the internet where people meet the way they should have been meeting all along.

Thanks for reading.

Marvin
Co-founder · weblin
Where we are today

This isn't a pitch for maybe.
It's a pitch for already.

The extension works. People use it. Festivals host their communities on it. Self-funded until now.

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Browsers live
Chrome · Edge · Firefox
770+
Code commits
Years of open work
12
Public releases
Since launch
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Websites
Supported by design
Why this moment matters

For years, this idea
wasn't possible at scale.

Then

Communities were tied to platforms, not to the web itself. The layer that lets people see each other had to be rebuilt inside every single app. Small experiments died when the platforms closed their doors.

Now

Browsers are powerful. Privacy tooling is mature. And people are actively searching for something that feels less loud, less lonely, more real. The ground conditions finally exist.

We already built the first working version of weblin. This campaign decides whether it grows.

The invitation

This campaign isn't about
funding a product.

It's about proving the web can feel human again.

weblin already exists. We've been building it for years because we believe the internet should feel human again. This campaign decides whether it stays a small experiment — or grows into something that reaches millions of people.

If we succeed, the people supporting this today won't just be users.
They'll be the ones who helped bring real presence back to the web.
Why we're on Kickstarter

Not to invent something.
To make what's finished reach the people.

We've built as much as two people could build on their own. The rest needs hands, time, and a little money to run. Here's where every euro goes.

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Launch Thoughts

The infrastructure to post, vote, and moderate thoughts on every page of the web.

02

Build the app

iOS and Android, so weblin lives where you already are — not just at your desk.

03

Scale gently

Servers, moderation, translations, support. The quiet work that keeps things from breaking.

04

Reach the next 100k

Festivals, communities, small circles. The people who've been waiting for something like this.

Every euro goes into code, infrastructure, and people. None of it goes into ads.

What happens if this works

Websites feel alive again. Events become meeting places. Interest becomes community, instantly.

Help us prove the web can feel human again.

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