What we want to build
One place where a community can organise itself, where a conversation stays private unless you choose otherwise, and where your professional profile is a thing you control field by field.
About
Ship it. Show it. Get referred.
Orbzz is meant to be a calm, fast home for professional communities, private conversations and your network — built for Tier 3 & 4 college students, indie hackers, hackathon builders, and developers working abroad.
Why
The problem is scatter
Professional life ends up spread across a chat app that shouts, a feed that ranks, a forum nobody reads and a mailing list nobody updates. None of them belong to the people in them.
What we refuse to build
No ads, no selling user data, no algorithmic mega-feed, no engagement traps, no crypto features. If a decision only works by making the product worse for members, it is not a decision.
Principles
Six rules we hold ourselves to
Calm by default
No dark patterns, no infinite-scroll traps, no fake urgency. Notifications are granular and opt-in.
Fast
Perceived speed beats everything: optimistic updates, local cache, fast search.
Private by design
Collect the minimum. Say exactly what is encrypted and what is not — never more.
Professional but human
Warm tone, minimal clutter, vibrant accents used sparingly.
Safe communities
Moderation tooling is first-class, not an afterthought bolted on before launch.
Open to builders
A public API, bots and webhooks are part of the plan from the beginning.
Founder Note
Why we are building Orbzz
Built by a student builder to make referrals about shipped code, not college tags.
“I saw hundreds of brilliant engineers from tier 3 and tier 4 colleges get filtered out by resume bots before anyone ever looked at their code. Meanwhile, hiring managers and diaspora engineers abroad get dozens of cold referral requests every week with no verifiable proof of skills.”
Orbzz inverts this broken dynamic. By pairing student developers with indie hackers shipping real products and hackathon builders in war rooms, candidates earn merged pull requests and verifiable commit trails. When you ask for a referral, referrers see real proof of work, not just words on a resume.
M Sanjai Suri — Founder & Student BuilderFree for students during early preview
Status
Where the project actually stands
We would rather publish an uncomfortable status than a flattering one.
Design system, tokens and component library
Colour, spacing, typography and motion tokens with contrast tests and a unified component library.
Authentication, profiles, and account security
Registration, verification, Argon2id passwords, TOTP 2FA, WebAuthn passkeys, and field-by-field privacy.
Direct messaging, Orbs, Channels, Circle and Pulse
Realtime messaging, community Orbs, channels with granular roles, spatial Circle graph, and community Pulse feed.
1:1 End-to-end encryption (Olm Double Ratchet)
End-to-end encryption for one-to-one chats is in early preview and not independently audited. Orbs and group chats are not end-to-end encrypted.
Native mobile and desktop applications
Dedicated native builds for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android are sequenced for upcoming releases.
Company, funding, customers
No incorporation, no external funding, no commercial customers, and no active user numbers to report.
The team is not listed here yet because there is no public team page we can stand behind. Bios, photos and roles will go up when the people involved approve them. Get in touch if you want to talk to us.