LIVE SIMULATOR
Handles 2,041 Members 128,406 Countries 195 Apps required 0

This is Heyy-U, running.

Everything on the left is the protocol. Everything on the right is a phone — any phone. Click anything, and watch the SMS layer do the work. No app was downloaded to make any of this happen.

PRESENTER NOTEStart here. A member of the panel gives a first name and any number. Thirty seconds later they hold a sovereign identity that works on a £10 Nokia. That is the entire onboarding funnel.

Claim your sovereign @handle 10-SECOND JOIN

One handle, SIM-anchored, privacy-shielded. Your number is masked forever — people reach the handle, never the phone. Unlike registered usernames on WhatsApp, nothing here links back to any social profile. The handle is the identity.

Verification arrives on the phone. Reply YES there to activate.

What just happened

MASKINGYour number is bound to the handle cryptographically — then hidden. Every message from now on routes via @your-handle
SOVEREIGNTYNo email surrendered. No app installed. No profile scraped. Text STOP to any handle and the connection is severed instantly — consent is the protocol, not a setting.
REACHYour handle now works across 195 dialing codes and any device that can text.
PRESENTER NOTE@zim-london is not a mock-up — it is the live proof point. 1,847 real members, 12 cities, a self-funding treasury, zero apps. Everything else in this demo is a replication of this handle.

Join a live community REAL PROOF

Text one word to one handle and you belong. This is how 1,847 people joined the Zimbabwean diaspora network in London.

1,847
Members
12
Global cities
£2,340
Monthly treasury
0
Apps to join
@super-eagles-fans-london @caribbean-cricket-uk @lboro-parkrun

Or found your own

Faith groups, resident associations, market traders, alumni circles — any organiser can raise a handle in under a minute. Members join by text; the treasury funds itself through opt-in commerce.

PRESENTER NOTEThe inversion: Mailchimp, Eventbrite and Klaviyo are not competitors — they become customers of this rail. Businesses never see the member's number; they rent consent, message by message.

A business handle that customers actually want to hear from CONSENT-FIRST COMMERCE

Customers opt in to a business handle. The business reaches real people with zero data purchase — and a slice of every opted-in transaction flows to the community treasuries that introduced them.

Watch the phone: the offer arrives, the member redeems by text, and the treasury share posts automatically. Reply STOP at any point — the business loses the member instantly. That is the accountability loop no ad network has.

Treasury flow — live

1,204
Opted-in subscribers
0
Redemptions this demo
£1,840
Community treasury share
PRESENTER NOTEThe serendipity engine. No GPS, no proximity radar, no tracking of any kind — you can only text a handle you can physically see. A hoodie, a car plate, a table sign, a stall banner. The street becomes the interface, and consent decides everything after that.

Text what you see NO LOCATION · NO TRACKING · EYES ONLY

Somewhere in the heaving crowd is a person wearing their handle. You catch their eye. Fifteen years ago that moment died on the pavement. Now you text the handle — anonymously, consensually — and the moment lives. Tap a real-world sighting:

There is nothing to broadcast and nothing to switch on. If a handle isn't displayed, its owner cannot be approached. Both sides stay anonymous until both reply YES — and either side can text STOP forever afterwards.

Serendipity, restored

THE OLD WORLDYou noticed someone. You never spoke. The moment was lost to the shuffle of the street, permanently.
THE APP WORLDAn algorithm shows you strangers you never saw, ranked by engagement, with your GPS switched on and your photos on a server.
HEYY-UThe handle someone chooses to wear is the invitation. You saw them with your own eyes; you text what you saw; they decide. No algorithm sat between two humans.

One handle, every surface

Print it on a hoodie. Put it in a WhatsApp group name or an Instagram bio. Register your car plate as an opt-in alias so strangers can tell you your lights are on — without ever getting your number. Wherever the handle is displayed, replies route back through Heyy-U's relay, and the phone number stays sealed. Plate aliases are opt-in only, rate-limited, and one STOP severs them — visibility never means vulnerability.

PRESENTER NOTEEvery dialing code on earth becomes a digital assembly. 280 million diaspora people have never had permanent infrastructure to find each other by nationality — this is it, and it costs them a text message.

The first digital flag system 195 NATIONS

Your dialing code is your flag. @heyy-u263 is Zimbabwe's sovereign assembly; @heyy-u1 is America's. Tap a flag to raise it on the phone.

On heritage days the flag handles pulse worldwide — @heyy-u263 on Zimbabwe Independence, @heyy-u1 on Juneteenth. National belonging, delivered over SMS.
PRESENTER NOTEThe traction engine. Any organiser raises a tournament handle; entry, fixtures, scores and prize treasury all run over text. Local five-a-sides ladder into regional, national and international brackets — a World Handle Games, built from grassroots up.

Raise a tournament in 60 seconds LOCAL → WORLD

This is how Heyy-U goes to market: thousands of local tournaments, every one a live community handle, every one laddering upward. No leagues software, no WhatsApp admin chaos, no spreadsheet of phone numbers.

Entries arrive by text. Fixtures go out by text. Scores come back by text. The final ladders the winner into the regional handle automatically — and the finals become a paid event sold straight into linked community handles. This is the revenue engine.
PRESENTER NOTEJudge mode. This is the Visa logic: a four-party model where nobody works for free. The MNO carries and gets paid. The organiser recruits and gets paid. The community treasury retains value. Heyy-U takes a sliver of everything and touches nothing it doesn't need. Every figure in the session ledger below was generated by clicks in this room.

Unit economics, per action FOUR-PARTY SPLIT

Every action on the network is a priced event with a published split. No advertising, no data sale — the money follows the message.

ActionGrossOrganiser / TreasuryHeyy-UMNO
Member JOIN (2 SMS)£0.00free to member−5p CACcarried
Organiser broadcast, per member5p—3p (60% margin)2p
Opt-in offer redeemed (£7 basket)£7.0014p treasury8p6p
Tournament team entry£20.00£16 prize pot + £2 organiser£1.2080p
Event ticket via handle£10.00£8 organiser + £1 treasury60p40p
A member acquired for 5p of SMS versus £3–£8 of social-media ad spend. That delta is the whole business case for a mobile operator, and the reason the acquisition cost never inflates: SMS pricing is a utility, not an auction.

Handle tiers — recurring layer

TierPriceForIncludes
Hermes£0Individualshandle + masking + STOP
Apollo£9/moCommunitiestreasury + broadcasts
Athena£29/moBusinessesopt-in commerce rail
Zeus£99+/moFederations & nationstournament ladders + flags
The 500-handle grassroots milestone at a blended ~£14/month is ~£84k ARR before a single transaction — and transactions are the compounding layer on top, as the session ledger below shows.

This session — live ledger GENERATED BY YOUR CLICKS

0
Paid actions
£0.00
Gross flow
£0.00
To organisers
£0.00
To treasuries
£0.00
To Heyy-U
£0.00
To MNOs
Run the tournament and sell finals tickets, redeem the coffee offer, buy from the market stall — then come back to this tab. If the ledger is still at zero, the demo hasn't been demoed.