We made PUNCH because the social internet broke.

Five apps, five algorithms, five sets of rules nobody can read. Your reach is decided by people you'll never meet, based on signals you're not allowed to see. You post something that matters to you — about your community, your work, your country, what's happening in the world — and the post quietly dies. You don't get told why. You're not breaking any rule you can find. The number just doesn't go up. That's not a feed. That's a leash.

PUNCH is the alternative.

One place. Post photos, post video, message your friends, build your community — and when you're ready, go live straight into your own room, from your phone, no studio required. Share to other platforms when you want to. Not five apps screaming at each other on your home screen.

Your messages are yours. Encrypted DMs — encrypted in transit and at rest. Never scanned for ads. Never sold. Never fed to AI. One honest exception: if someone in a chat reports a message, a human can review it — that's how reports work, and we won't pretend otherwise.

You hear about it. There are no shadow bans. If a post is removed, you'll know. If your account is restricted, you'll know why and you can appeal. The rules are public and the same for everyone. They cover what has to be removed for the platform to legally exist: content that targets children, content that doxxes or directly threatens real people, and content that's illegal in the country it's posted from. Nothing is quietly throttled behind your back.

Every post carries a receipt. Open any post you made and tap Receipt. The receipt shows how reach works: whether it was eligible for your followers and for discovery, the factors that ranked it, its views and sends, and which version of the ranking evaluated it.

The algorithm is yours to tune, or turn off. You can read it. You can see what signals matter. You can switch to pure chronological if you want. Nothing is quietly throttled behind your back. We will never optimize for outrage, because outrage is not what people came here for.

Make things, and keep your people. Post, message, build a room, and go live from your phone. The core of the app is creating and connecting. Payment screens stay out of the way until you choose to take support, and those payouts run weekly, every Friday. Export your posts and your entire follow list any day.

Built for people who make things. Privacy is the default, not a premium feature, and the algorithm should serve the person using it. The same rules apply to everyone.

The same rules for everyone. Reach mechanics do not change based on who you are. The right to appeal is the same, and a receipt shows how reach works. Those rules do not bend for one group and not another.

This is PUNCH. Punch through the noise. Punch through the algorithm. Punch your way back to the people who matter.