“Could someone help me with this for ten minutes?”
Not a professional job. Not an emergency. Just an everyday moment that is easier with another person.
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HANDY
Working Alpha · Tel Aviv
Working Alpha
Small help can change how a city feels.
HANDY is building a trusted local community where people can ask for a hand when they need one and lend one when they can.
Need a hand?Ask nearby, with context.
Can lend one?Discover real requests.
01 · Why HANDY exists
Cities are full of people.
Everyday life can still feel disconnected.
Everyday life can still feel disconnected.
The gap is often surprisingly small: a few minutes of help, a person nearby and no trusted way for those two moments to find one another.
→connection missing
No obvious person to ask.
The help may already be nearby. The trusted connection usually is not.
02“I could easily help with that.”
People have time, skills and goodwill. They simply do not know who around them needs it.
03→signal missing
No trusted way to discover the need.
HANDY closes that human gap without turning every small favor into a transaction.
04HANDY connects willingness with need.
02 · A community, not a marketplace
No clients. No providers. People.
HANDY is not designed around two permanent groups of users. Today you may need a hand. Tomorrow you may be the one giving it.
I NEED A HAND
Ask when you need it.
Share what you need, when you need it and your general area. Nearby verified members can understand the request and decide whether they can help.
I CAN LEND A HAND
Help when you can.
Explore real requests nearby. No schedules, no permanent commitment and no pressure to say yes. Participate when it fits your life.
Everyone can be both. Two sides. One community.
03 · Experience HANDY
Two sides. One trusted flow.
HANDY is designed so asking for help and offering it feel equally natural. Scroll through the current Alpha flow to see how trust, context, choice and privacy build step by step.
01 · JOIN
Enter a community, not a marketplace.
HANDY begins by framing the product around belonging, reciprocity and everyday help rather than transactions.
WORKING ALPHA02 · VERIFY
Trust comes before real-world connection.
Phone, identity and live face verification are built into onboarding because HANDY is ultimately about people meeting people.
WORKING ALPHA03 · ASK
Describe the help you actually need.
Share what, when, your general area, category and the Ripple value. The request stays focused on the practical moment, not unnecessary personal information.
WORKING ALPHA04 · REVIEW
Know exactly what the community will see.
Before publishing, the requester reviews the request, visibility and safety context. Nothing should feel accidental.
WORKING ALPHA05 · DISCOVER
Nearby people choose when they can help.
Verified members can explore relevant requests nearby without schedules, shifts or a permanent helper role.
WORKING ALPHA06 · UNDERSTAND
Context before commitment.
Request details show what matters: the need, time, public area, category, Ripples and the safety rules that govern the connection.
WORKING ALPHA07 · MATCH
Private access unlocks only after choice.
The requester decides who to connect with. After acceptance, the match is confirmed and private coordination becomes available.
WORKING ALPHA08 · COORDINATE
Keep the interaction inside HANDY.
Messages give both members a private place to coordinate without immediately exchanging personal contact details.
WORKING ALPHA09 · COMPLETE & RIPPLE
The task ends. The contribution leaves a trace.
Completed help can build reputation, participation history and Ripples, creating a visible record of positive community activity.
SYSTEM BEING VALIDATED04 · How a HANDY match works
A match is a sequence of trusted decisions.
HANDY does not simply connect two profiles. It controls what becomes available at each stage so trust, privacy and accountability increase step by step.
Request details
Product screens use demo profiles and sample requests. The flow itself reflects the current Alpha product logic.
05 · Trust before contact
Trust is not an add-on. It is part of the product.
HANDY asks people to move from a digital interaction into the real world. Trust therefore begins at registration and continues through matching, coordination and meeting.
Phone verification
A real phone number is connected to the account before the community flow continues.
Identity verification
Members choose a valid government-issued document and complete the identity flow.
Live face verification
A quick live face check helps confirm that the identity document belongs to the person joining.
Verified profiles
Trust signals remain visible as members move through requests, matches and conversations.
Controlled location
General area first. More precise meeting information is shared only when it is actually needed.
Private coordination
Direct communication opens only after an accepted match and stays inside HANDY.
Community reputation
Positive participation can build accountable history instead of leaving every interaction anonymous.
HANDY Check-in
An additional safety layer supports the transition from app interaction to a real-world meeting.
Current Alpha flow
Verification is visible in the product, not hidden in policy.
Swipe through the actual sequence. Every member is taken through the same trust process before entering the HANDY community.
06 · Privacy by design
Share what's necessary. When it's necessary.
Trust does not require exposing everything. Before a match, someone may only need to know the general area. Personal verification documents establish trust, but are not meant to become public profile content.
Before match
Florentin, Tel AvivEnough information to understand proximity.
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After trusted match
Private coordination unlocksOnly the information actually needed to coordinate is shared.
07 · The Ripple system
A Ripple makes positive participation visible.
Ripples are HANDY's contribution layer. They are designed to recognize that someone showed up, helped responsibly and created a positive interaction inside the community.
ParticipationYou showed up.
ContributionYou made someone's day easier.
TrustPositive actions build history.
MomentumVisible contribution encourages more participation.
A verified interaction is completed.
Ripples recognize positive contribution.
Impact and reputation become visible over time.
As the reward system is validated, accumulated Ripples can unlock partner perks and experiences.
Being validated
From contribution to recognition and rewards.
The current Alpha already gives Ripples a visible home. The next question is how they should behave in real communities: how many are earned, which actions count, how reputation relates to them, and which rewards feel meaningful without turning kindness into a competition.
A future redemption can be simple: collect Ripples through positive participation, choose an available partner reward and exchange the required balance for that perk. Coffee, breakfast or an experience are examples of the product direction, not final commercial agreements.
Help → Ripples → visible impact → optional rewards → more community participation.
Vision
08 · Ripple Maker
Some people consistently make a community better.
A Ripple Maker is a possible recognition layer for members whose contribution is consistently reliable, positive and trusted. It would not be a race to collect the most points.
ReliabilityPositive participationReputationConsistencyCompleted helpTrust
Recognition could eventually unlock partner perks, special experiences, early access and new ways to contribute, while keeping HANDY centered on reciprocity rather than status.
RIPPLE MAKERRecognition for positive community momentum.
09 · Built around dignity
Needing help is normal.
Offering help is normal.
People move between both sides of life constantly. Strong today. Overwhelmed tomorrow. Available this morning. Needing support next week. HANDY is designed around reciprocity rather than permanent labels.
TRUST
Enough information to choose whether to connect.
PROXIMITY
Help close enough to fit naturally into everyday life.
RECIPROCITY
Everyone can give and receive. Roles can change tomorrow.
DIGNITY
Asking should feel normal, not like failure or dependency.
HUMANITY
Technology enables the connection. People create it.
COMMUNITY
Good actions can compound into stronger local trust.
One community. Many languages.EnglishעבריתEspañolMore as the community grows
10 · Why Tel Aviv first
One city. Millions of small moments.
Tel Aviv gives HANDY a meaningful environment in which to learn whether proximity can become community. Dense urban life, locals and newcomers, multiple languages, residential neighborhoods and high comfort with technology make it a strong place to test real behavior.
Tel Aviv is where we start. The underlying human behavior is not unique to Tel Aviv.
01DensePeople already live physically close to one another.
02InternationalLocals, newcomers, expats and mixed communities overlap every day.
03MultilingualCommunity support often crosses language and cultural lines.
04Tech receptiveA city comfortable trying new digital behaviors in everyday life.
11 · From idea to Working Alpha
This is no longer just an idea.
Both sides of the core experience now exist in the product: asking, helping, verification, review, publishing, matching, private coordination, Check-in, Requests, Profile, Ripples and Rewards.
Working Alpha
What exists today
Onboarding
Phone verification
Identity flow
Live face check
Home
Need a Hand
Request review
Request live
Lend a Hand
Nearby requests
Request details
Offer flow
Matching
Private messages
HANDY Check-in
Profile + Ripples
Next
Make the system survive real life
Live backend expansion
Real matching behavior
Notifications
Reputation refinement
Check-in refinement
Moderation
Feedback loops
Closed Alpha operations
Current Alpha screensFull product captures from the current build. Hover to bring a screen forward, or scroll the rail horizontally.
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12 · What the Closed Alpha needs to prove
Building is only half the job.
The next milestone is not a bigger number on a slide. It is evidence that the behavior works between real people, repeatedly and safely.
ASKING
Will people comfortably ask?We need to learn which everyday needs feel natural to post, which feel too sensitive and what makes asking feel socially normal.
RESPONSE
Will someone nearby show up?Useful density means more than registrations. It means a relevant member sees a request and chooses to respond at the right time.
TRUST
Does verification reduce friction?The system should provide enough trust to act without forcing people to expose more personal information than necessary.
RECIPROCITY
Will people move between both sides?The community becomes stronger if someone who asks today is comfortable lending a hand another day.
RETENTION
Will a good interaction create another?HANDY becomes meaningful when one successful moment increases the likelihood of future participation, trust and connection.
This is what the Closed Alpha is for.Real requests. Real responses. Real learning.
13 · Product philosophy
Technology should make the world feel a little more human.
HANDY is not trying to optimize every human interaction into a transaction. We are exploring whether technology can remove friction, create enough trust to act and give small acts of everyday support a natural place to happen.
The technology matters. But the real product is the moment when one person shows up for another.
TRUSTBefore connection
PROXIMITYClose to real life
RECIPROCITYBoth sides
DIGNITYAsk normally
HUMANITYPeople first
COMMUNITYActions compound
14 · The journey
Start local. Learn deeply. Grow with trust.
IDEAQuestion the behavior
EARLY VALIDATIONListen first
PRODUCT SYSTEMTurn philosophy into UX
WORKING ALPHANow
CLOSED ALPHATel Aviv next
LEARN & REFINEBehavior over assumptions
BETAAfter validation
Vision
The bigger idea
What if small help became part of how cities work?
HANDY starts with individual moments: one request, one nearby person, one trusted interaction. If that behavior repeats, the product can become a local layer of connection for neighborhoods, residential communities, newcomers, universities and other dense urban communities.
Not by forcing scale. By proving the behavior first.
one interaction repeated trust stronger local network
Why I'm building HANDY
Connection and trust are often the missing pieces.
I started exploring HANDY after thinking about how often everyday life puts us physically close to people we do not actually know how to reach. Someone nearby may need exactly the help you could easily give. You may need something simple that someone a few buildings away could solve in ten minutes.
The missing piece is often not willingness. It is connection and trust. HANDY is my attempt to understand whether we can build that missing layer in a way that feels safe, useful and genuinely human.
Danniel LeónFounder · HANDY · Tel Aviv
A city does not become more connected all at once.
It happens interaction by interaction.
Small help.
Big ripple.
Working Alpha · Tel Aviv