Avatar-first identity
Build a character that feels like you. A person, a panda, a goldfish, whatever fits. Photos are for the people you choose.
Beta starts June 2026 · Currently in TestMeet the people
Meet the people
already around you.
Mippo is for friends, collaborators, language partners, or the chance encounters in between. The ones you'd cross paths with anyway, surfaced when both of you are around and open to it.
Mip, our AI, makes the call. Pings travel over NearPass, our local Bluetooth protocol. You can talk only when you both accept.
How it works ↓A new sense your phone has.
NearPass
How it works
Three steps.
Mippo isn't another feed to manage. It's a sense your phone now has.
Make a character.
Design an avatar that feels like you. Pick the things you love, the moods you're in, what you're up for. Photos are for the people you choose.
Your phone notices what's nearby.
NearPass is our local Bluetooth protocol, on the same chip that pairs your earbuds. Phones find each other directly. Across a café, a campus, an airport terminal. When another Mippo phone is around, yours knows.
Get a ping. Say hi.
When someone nearby actually fits, and you both said yes to each other, you both get a ping. Accept, chat, meet. Or don't. Your call. Skip filters? Anyone fits.
Why Mippo
Built different on purpose.
Every choice points away from the engagement loop and back toward actually meeting people.
Deep interests, not labels.
Skip the checkboxes. Mippo pings on the actual you: the trip you just took, the book you can't put down, the slow-chess partner you've been looking for. Not "people who said they like fitness." The exact person you'd want to meet.
ping
You + Lukas both:
just back from Vietnamstudying Physicsslow chess
You set the bar.
Tune frequency, intent, distance, who can ping you, when. More filters as we ship. You're always in control.
More pingsStronger fits
+ intent+ distance+ time of day
Tell people what you're up to.
Studying. Open to chat. Heads down till 5. Looking for a tennis partner this afternoon. Statuses tell the people nearby how to read you right now, without committing to anything.
open to chat
studying till 5
tennis partner this afternoon
Your location stays on your phone.
No GPS lookup. No location stored on our side. Devices find each other locally over NearPass. Your phone never tells us where you are.
on-device
Mip, your companion.
The AI inside Mippo. Mip listens when you talk, when you post, when you update your profile. Tell Mip you just got back from Paris, the pings you get next week shift. The longer you use the app, the more it knows you.
mipjust now
"You posted from Paris. Added Europe travel and museums."
Your Room.
A profile, but with stuff in it. The books, the trips, the projects, the songs on your speaker. Friends walk in and hear what's playing; strangers see the door.
Coming soon
Communities
Place-anchored groups you join. Inside: your circle there on NearPass, what they're posting, where to show up next.
- UvA27 on NearPass
University of Amsterdam
Roeterseiland · 3,140 members
- C&B8 on NearPass
Coffee & Bikes
Westerpark · 412 members
- SR12 on NearPass
Sunday morning runners
Vondelpark · 203 members
- LE16 on NearPass
Language exchange
OBA library · 234 members
Privacy by design
Your data is yours.
Privacy isn't a checklist. It's the architecture every other choice has to fit inside of.
NearPass, not GPS.
Phones find each other directly over Bluetooth. The ID your phone broadcasts is anonymous and rotates every few minutes, so it can't be tracked across the day. No GPS lookup, no location history.
You're an avatar, not an identity.
What strangers see is a character and the things you care about. Real name and IRL photos are yours to share. Never default.
End-to-end encrypted chat.
Even Mippo can't read your messages. Keys live on your device, not our servers.
Full GDPR rights, on by default.
Export everything. Delete everything. Instantly. EU privacy as the floor, not a feature.
You choose what's visible.
Friends see your room. Pings see what you allow. Strangers see your avatar. Every layer is a dial you set.
Wider reach is opt-in.
Coming soon: discover people in your city or country who share what you care about, by interest, only when you flip the toggle. Defaults stay tight; the dial starts at zero.
Communities
Proximity, but at scale.
Communities are place-anchored: a campus, a coworking space, a festival. They're shaped by who you cross paths with on NearPass. Inside: your circle there, who's active right now, where to show up next.
UvA
University of Amsterdam
Roeterseiland · Campus
3,140 members10 active on NearPass
Who's using NearPass
10 on NearPass in Main Campus
Posts across UvA
Anyone at UvA can read · anyone can post.
Lukas · REC building · 2h
Anyone want to grab coffee at CREA around 4? I'll be the one with the laptop covered in stickers.
Sofia · UB Library · 5h
Looking for a chess partner who plays slow games. I just want to think.
Theo · LAB42 · 3h
HCI prototype testers needed Thursday at 3pm. Pizza for everyone who shows up.
Where people are showing up
Boardgame night
Fri 19:00 · Coffee & Bikes · 34 going
Sunday morning run
Sun 09:30 · Vondelpark · entrance C · 12 going
Mockup. Real groups open with the beta.
Why we're building this
The next social network won't be a feed. It'll be the people already around you.
The problem
Social media made us less social. We've optimized for profile photos and engagement metrics, not for actually meeting the people we'd genuinely click with.
Why now
Our generation grew up on apps that promised connection and delivered loneliness. The phone in our pocket has been quietly talking to other phones over Bluetooth for a decade. Nobody built the social layer on top of it. We want something quieter and more real.
What we believe
Discovery should happen because you were physically there. Identity should be expressive, not extractive. And privacy is yours, not ours.
We're a small team building the social layer for the places you pass through. Not a feed. Not a metric. The app we wished existed every time we drifted by interesting people in a rush. Mippo is AI-native serendipity.
The next person you meet is already around you.
Mippo opens to the first wave of users in June 2026. Get on the list and you'll be there from day one.
App Store · Coming soon
Google Play · Coming soon