Neighbourhood
For apartment buildings, blocks, or the cluster of streets around a school. Useful for the morning commute and the late‑night walk from the station.
e.g. Tiong Bahru Estate · 186 households
Quiet commute matching · Singapore · v1.0
CommuteCircle finds the neighbour, classmate, or colleague heading where you're heading. Without sharing your exact times, your live location, or your name with anyone you didn't already trust.
The premise
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How it works
Your apartment building, kid's school, the office floor. A circle is a closed group — only members can match with you.
Roughly when, roughly where. Mon – Fri, leaves around eight, heads downtown‑ish. That's enough.
Same window. Same direction. We never tell anyone your exact address — only that you're going a similar way.
Aisha · ~8:15 · 4 min walk
One tap, when you're actually walking out the door. They get a heads‑up. You can both bail without a conversation.
The privacy thing
Other people see "around 8:15". We see the same. The exact number sits on your phone, used only to score matches.
Networks
You can be in a few at once. Each one decides who can ever see you.
For apartment buildings, blocks, or the cluster of streets around a school. Useful for the morning commute and the late‑night walk from the station.
e.g. Tiong Bahru Estate · 186 households
Walking buses. Carpool rotations. Pickup parents who'd rather not text three group chats to find out who's grabbing whom.
e.g. Zhangde Primary · level by level
Level 23. The Tuesday‑Thursday hybrid crowd. The people who also take the 8:20 Circle Line. Joined by company email; left without HR ever knowing.
e.g. Marina One · 6 teams
Networks don't see each other. Your school‑run friends can't tell you're also matched with someone from the office.
Trust, by design
The mechanisms underneath the calm UI. None of these are settings you have to find — they're how the app works by default.
Networks are entered through one of three lanes: a residence invite code, a verified work email domain, or a school roster link from an admin. Nobody gets into your circle by guessing a handle.
Residence code
Posted in the lobby. Rotates weekly.
Work domain
name@company.com confirms entry.
School roster
Admin issues per‑family links.
Decided someone isn't your person? Hide them in two taps. They get no notification and you don't appear in their list again. No paper trail, no awkwardness.
Reporting someone in a network goes to the network's admin (your building manager, school office, HR liaison), not into a public queue.
Routines are bucketed on‑device. Signals are single moments, not streams. Location history is never uploaded, ever.
Settings → Audit: every piece of data your phone has sent, in plain English. Export it, delete it, leave any time.
A quiet morning
One Thursday. Two people, two phones, no spoken plan. Six moments — the whole product runs in the background of an ordinary commute.
on Sam's phone — passive
Coffee brewing. A small pill in the corner reads 1 in your circle. No push, no banner — just a state on the home screen if he happens to look.
match details opened
Sam taps the pill. The match expands: Aisha, ~8:15, 4 min walk to Tiong Bahru Plaza, heading to Marina One. Same network: Tiong Bahru Estate. Four shared trips so far. Verified.
Sam taps · the only loud moment
He's putting on his shoes. One tap on ⚡ I'm leaving — signal Aisha. That single tap is the entire mechanism. It sends one boolean to one phone. Nothing else.
on Aisha's phone
A subtle haptic. Sam's on his way. She was already halfway out the door — but if she wasn't, no apology owed. She can mark "running late" with one tap, or just keep walking.
offline — the actual point
They wave at the platform. Take the EW Line two stops. Talk about the new bakery on Eng Hoon Street, or don't. The app doesn't witness any of this. That's by design.
arrived · private record
Both phones quietly bump the shared‑trip counter. Streak +1. No badge gets posted, no boss notified, no neighbour ranked. Sam closes the app and forgets about it until tomorrow.
The quiet ritual
CommuteCircle keeps a private tally of trips you took together and the rough carbon you didn't burn alone. It's there if you want it, and ignorable if you don't.
No public scoreboards by default. No badges shipped to your boss. You can show it to your neighbour at the bus stop, if you like.
WEEK STREAK · KEEP IT GOING
Illustrative — your numbers stay private to you and the circles you join.
Built for the in‑between
CommuteCircle is most useful in the early weeks of a new chapter, when you don't yet know who else is on your platform every morning. Three of the common ones:
I just moved in. I didn't want to knock on doors, but I was also tired of doing the dark walk from the station alone every Wednesday night.
New to the neighbourhood · Tiong Bahru Estate
Two weeks in at a new firm and I still couldn't tell who was on my level. The Tuesday Circle Line crowd turned out to be five other people on my team.
Just started · Marina One · level 23
I was the parent in three group chats trying to figure out who's grabbing whom. Now there's a quiet rota, with the people whose kids actually walk with mine.
School run · Zhangde Primary · P2
These are scenarios the product was designed around. They are not endorsements — CommuteCircle is in early access and we'd rather ship the feature than the press quote.
Frequently, quietly asked
Try it
Joining one circle takes about a minute. Most people see a first match within their first week of normal commuting.
Or invite your building / school / floor — admins get a one‑click network bootstrap and a poster QR.
CommuteCircle · iOS & Android