We got tired of losing each other.

The short version

KinGrid started with a familiar, stupid problem: it is genuinely hard to find your friends at a festival. Not in a charming way — in a way that eats hours of an event you saved for all year. Cell networks collapse under the density of a crowd. Group chats stop delivering. Someone wanders off during a set and is simply gone for the rest of the night.

We tried every workaround. Meet-at-the-flag. Share-my-location, until it drained everyone's battery to nothing by mid-afternoon. Screenshots of the map with a circle drawn on it. None of it survives contact with fifty thousand people in one field.

So we started building the thing we kept wishing existed: a companion app for live events that assumes the network will fail, and works anyway.

What we're building

KinGrid is a festival and live-events companion app. Your group — your squad — appears on one live map. You can drop a totem to mark the meetup spot, build a shared lineup so everyone knows which stage is next, and connect with the people you meet along the way.

The part we care most about is what happens when the network gives out. KinGrid is designed to keep your squad visible to each other by linking phones directly, device to device, with no towers involved. We call that the Grid. It is the hard part of the problem, and it is the reason the app exists.

There is a longer walkthrough of the mechanics on the How It Works page.

Where the product stands today

We want to be straightforward about the stage we're at, because it shapes what you can expect from us right now.

KinGrid is pre-launch. The app is not yet available to download. We are currently validating the offline mesh — the device-to-device connectivity that everything else depends on — with a development partner, ahead of building the full app. We are deliberately proving the hardest technical piece before building everything around it, rather than shipping a pretty app that falls over in the one situation it was made for.

KinGrid will launch first on iOS, with Android to follow. If you'd like to know when it's ready, join the waitlist — that's the only thing we'll use your email for.