The Internet's Digital Corkboard: where real moments live.
Twickr is a sticky-note social platform. People pin short notes, share Flips and Soundbites, buy and sell nearby through the GoKart marketplace, and join community chats, all within a single account. Launched on Google Play on 22 September 2026, Twickr has reached 210 active users with no paid acquisition. We are raising a $500K pre-seed SAFE to prove retention, and we are seeking a dedicated co-founder to lead growth and monetisation.
Active users as reported by Google Analytics. The 69 figure is the week of 25 September to 1 October 2026, the first full week after launch. Figures are unaudited.
Summary
Twickr is live on Google Play and APKPure, with iOS in development. It is a free, dark-first social platform built around sticky notes: short, instantly readable posts that can be pinned to a place or shared freely. Around that core sit Flips short video, the GoKart local marketplace, interest-based community chats and Soundbites, a short-audio format. Every surface lives in one account, so engagement compounds instead of fragmenting across separate apps.
The founder, Victor Rolland, designed and built the entire product as sole developer, launched it on 22 September 2026, and owns 100% of the company. The pre-seed round is designed around one outcome: proving that users come back.
The product, live today
Twickr is a working Android app on Google Play and APKPure. Here is what a user sees.
Sticky notes feed
GoKart marketplace
Flips video feed
Community chatsThe problem
Social platforms have grown heavy and fragmented. People lack a simple, lightweight place to pin a thought, a listing or a moment, and to find what is happening around them.
Heavy formats
Long captions, edited visuals and algorithmic ranking make a quick, casual post harder than it should be.
Feeds that never end
Algorithms optimise for watch time. The average user spends about 2h21m a day on social media (DataReportal / GWI, 2026).
Disconnected from place
Chat, video, audio and local buying live in separate apps, none tied to where you actually are.
The solution: a digital corkboard for real moments
Like a physical corkboard in a campus, café or neighbourhood, Twickr is a shared surface where anyone can pin something and anyone nearby or interested can find it.
Sticky Notes
The signature format: short, instantly readable posts instead of long captions. Answers heavy formats.
Geo-tagged Notes
An optional pin that ties a thought, review or moment to the exact place it happened. Answers disconnection from place.
Flips
An immersive vertical 3D short-video feed built for discovery. Answers feeds that never end.
GoKart Marketplace
List in minutes; buy, sell and find jobs and listings from people nearby.
Chats and Conversations
Spaces for a neighbourhood, creator, hobby or industry, plus real-time chat.
Soundbites
Short, locally made audio clips that people record and share as notes or Flips. A lightweight voice format inside the same feed.
Also included: follow, trending feed, nearby discovery, saved items and search.
Early traction
Twickr launched on Google Play on 22 September 2026, built and released by the founder from a hostel room. Active users have grown to 210, up from 69 in the week of 25 September to 1 October 2026, per Google Analytics. All organic, with no paid acquisition. The detail below is from that first full week, which was itself up 50% on the week before.
up from 69
+40.5% (42 to 59)
+8.7%
+58.1%
Top five countries by active users, week of 25 September to 1 October 2026
Twickr reached users in 7+ countries across four continents in one week, with no localisation and no advertising.
Market
Wedge: the sticky-note digital corkboard, with optional place pinning. Expansion: local commerce through GoKart and short audio through Soundbites, inside the same app, so each user can generate revenue through ads, listings and creators.
Sources: DataReportal Digital 2026 mid-year update; Statista; IFPI Global Music Report 2026.
Competition
Instagram, TikTok
They win on scale and short video. Twickr wins on a lightweight sticky-note format and optional place-based posts.
Facebook Marketplace, Nextdoor
They win on local buying and selling. Twickr wins on commerce inside a social identity, with notes, chats and audio.
Spotify, YouTube Music
They win on full-length audio. Twickr wins on short, local clips that are social by default and shared as notes and Flips.
Snapchat, Threads
They win on casual, real-time sharing. Twickr wins on persistent notes, optionally pinned to places, rather than ephemeral streams.
Strategy: win a loyal niche with the digital corkboard and sticky-note wedge, then add commerce and audio to raise retention. We are not trying to out-scale incumbents on day one.
Business model
Free to join, earn as we scale. Revenue follows retention: monetisation starts only after day-30 retention targets are met, so growth is never traded for early revenue. Twickr has generated no revenue to date.
GoKart marketplace
Featured and boosted listings, seller tools, and small listing or transaction fees.
Local advertising
Non-intrusive ads for cafes, shops and services, tied to geo-tagged notes and GoKart.
Creators and audio
Creator subscriptions, Flip promotion, and artist and podcast partnerships.
Go-to-market
Months 0 to 4Foundation
Launch iOS and localise into five languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Hindi. Establish the Bay Area base and start a creator pilot through a local accelerator or co-working space.
Months 4 to 8City communities
Launch city communities in the US, Brazil, Nigeria and India using geo-pinned notes, local chats and GoKart seeding.
Months 8 to 12Scale and monetise
Creator programme, referral loops and the first monetisation pilots. Goal: 25K monthly users in 5+ countries.
Growth levers: viral loops that share notes, Flips and listings to WhatsApp, Instagram and X; a repeatable city-by-city playbook; and store optimisation on Google Play, the App Store and APKPure to lower acquisition cost.
We are looking for a co-founder.
Twickr has a working product and early organic growth. What it needs next is a dedicated partner who owns traction and monetisation while the founder continues to lead product and engineering.
What you would own
User acquisition and retention loops; the city-by-city playbook; GoKart seller growth toward 1,000 listings; the local advertiser pilot with 20 businesses; and the creator programme.
Who we are looking for
A full-time, hands-on operator with a record in consumer growth, marketplaces or community building. Comfortable in emerging markets, data-driven and ready to commit to a long build.
What you get
A founder-level seat at an early company, real ownership of the growth agenda, and a product that is already built and live.
Indicative terms
Founder-level equity in the range of 15% to 25%, on a four-year vesting schedule with a one-year cliff. Final role and equity terms are agreed in writing after a trial collaboration period.
The founder
Victor Rolland
I designed and built Twickr end to end: product, design, backend and the Android release. I launched it on Google Play on 22 September 2026 from a hostel room in Uganda, and it has since reached users in 7+ countries without any ad spend.
Why me: I started Twickr to give people a simpler way to share a real moment than long captions and polished posts. Building and shipping the whole product alone, with minimal resources, shows I can turn an idea into something people use, quickly and cheaply. What I am looking for now is a partner who is stronger than I am at growth and monetisation.
Next step: I am relocating from Uganda to the San Francisco Bay Area to base Twickr where its investors, talent and partners are, while keeping a direct line into emerging markets where the product is already finding users.
Company and team
Ownership
100% owned by the founder. A single-owner cap table keeps the SAFE and future rounds simple.
Structure
A Delaware C-corp issuing a standard SAFE is planned, with incorporation and IP assignment to be completed before closing.
Headquarters
San Francisco Bay Area, for investor and talent access. The founder is wishing to found the company in Silicon Valley, and engineering remains remote-first, not so complex in infrastructure to keep costs lean.
First hires
A senior mobile engineer (iOS and Android), a growth lead for creators and communities, and a part-time trust and safety contractor. The co-founder search runs alongside these hires.
Advisors
Being recruited in social-platform growth and marketplace payments.
Trust and safety
Published and live: Privacy Policy, Terms, Community Guidelines, Copyright Policy, CSAE standards and account and data deletion.
The ask: $500K to prove retention
$500K SAFE, 12-month runway, team of 3 to 4.
Round terms
Instrument
Post-money SAFE, standard YC form.
Round size
$500K, with room for several investors.
Valuation cap
$4,000,000 post-money. A full $500K at the cap represents 12.5% of the company before the SAFE converts.
Discount
None. This is a valuation-cap SAFE.
Minimum cheque
$25,000. Smaller amounts from strategic angels are considered at the founder's discretion.
Closing
Rolling close. A first close is targeted at $150K in Q1 2027, with the full round targeted by the end of Q2 2027.
Monthly burn
About $42K on average ($500K over 12 months). The runway assumes no revenue.
12-month milestones
25K monthly active users. Day-30 retention of 20% or more. Live in 5+ countries. 1,000+ GoKart listings. iOS launched and the company seed-ready.
Risks
We would rather investors hear these from us first.
Traction is early
210 active users, up from 69 in late September, growing organically from a small base. The round is built around 25K monthly users and 20%+ day-30 retention.
Retention unproven
Day-7 and Day-30 retention have not yet been demonstrated at scale. Cohort data is shared in the data room, and updated as new cohorts mature.
Monetisation comes later
Revenue deliberately follows retention. Pilots of 1,000 GoKart listings and 20 local advertisers test willingness to pay.
Cold start
Social and local products need density per city. We address it with a city-by-city playbook and GoKart seeding in the US, Brazil, Nigeria and India.
Key-person risk
The founder is also the sole developer. The co-founder search and first hires exist to remove this risk.
Relocation
Establishing the company in the Bay Area depends on the founder securing the appropriate US immigration status. Until then the company operates remote-first, with immigration counsel engaged as part of the legal budget.
Audio and rights
Soundbites is limited to short, locally made clips. Any move toward licensed music would be taken only with a licensing advisor.
Safety and compliance
Policies are published. Funds are allocated to moderation tooling and a GDPR and COPPA-style privacy review.
Invest in Twickr, or build it with us.
Request the investor deck, a traction walkthrough or a call with the founder. If you are interested in the co-founder role, write to us too. We reply to every serious enquiry personally.