Your inner circle.
Ask your people, not the internet.
Someone you know already knows the right person. The Hub keeps you close to the people who matter and finds the introductions only you can make, through the people you actually know. Nobody sees your address book. It never sends a message for you.
A private beta, free, by invitation. The iPhone app comes through TestFlight with your invitation; the Mac app is optional and keeps itself current. See how it works.
The iPhone app, on a demo workspace. Captured in dark mode; it follows your phone's setting.
Introductions
Looking for a plumber? Ask the people you trust.
Write one line for a person: what they are looking for, or what they can help with. Diego is opening a second cafe and needs an accountant who knows restaurants. Elijah does the books for two. You know both. The Hub notices, lays the pair out for you with the need and the offer side by side, and you make the introduction. Or not. Nothing is shared until you say so.
On day one it works inside your own contacts. Then it reaches one step further. Ravi needs a contractor and nobody in your address book fits. Priya, a friend of yours on The Hub, knows one. You see that someone in Priya's circle fits. Priya sees that someone in yours is looking. Priya decides. Nobody else sees anything.
No group text. No post asking for recommendations. One quiet introduction between people who already trust each other. Every friend who joins widens what you can find, and you widen it for them.
What each person gets
The person who needs something
A name with a person they trust behind it. Not a listing, not a review. Diego gets Elijah because you know them both and said so.
The person who can help
Work from a warm source. Elijah hears from Diego through you, not from a stranger who found him online.
You, in the middle
You are the one who knew someone. The Hub keeps the record, so you can see what your introductions led to.
Your contacts are never visible
Nobody on The Hub can see who is in your address book. Not your connections, not the person being matched, not us.
You choose, every time
A match is laid out for you first. The other side learns nothing until you decide to share.
Nothing is sent for you
An introduction is a link you pass on yourself, by text or by mail, with your name and the one line you wrote. It never writes to anyone.
Your people
You never update it. It already knows.
Every contacts app dies the day you stop typing into it. The Hub does not need you to. It reads your Contacts and Calendar on your iPhone, and on a Mac your Messages, calls and Mail too, and builds the picture itself: who you know, how you know them, when you last spoke, which of your people know each other. Open it on the first day and your history is already there. Every device you sign in on shows the same people, groups and filters.
It keeps who and when, never what was said. Message and email content never leave the device that read them.
Every day
Five minutes a morning. Nobody slips.
Today's focus is a handful of things worth doing. Mei, who you usually talk to every week and have not in three months. Tomás's birthday tomorrow. Three introductions waiting on your yes. Handle them and the list empties. It does not refill from your whole address book.
How often to check in follows how often you actually talk: weekly for your closest people, yearly for the rest. Change it for anyone, or tell it not today. The list is under Home on your phone, and under Today's focus on the Mac.
On your iPhone
Four tabs, search, and one plus.
Home is the day's list. People is everyone, with one filter sheet for sorting and groups. Intros is what is waiting on you. More holds the rest: notes, reminders, messages, your groups, the network, the map, duplicates and the archive. Search sits beside the tabs, one tap from anywhere.
Everything new starts from the plus at the top right: a person, a note, a need, an offer, a reminder. On a person's page the same plus adds to that person. Nothing is hidden behind a long press.
The phone reads its own Contacts and Calendar when you let it, logs the calls, texts and emails you start from it, and keeps everything in one workspace. The phone is enough on its own; a Mac adds the calls and texts you receive and the years before.
The iPhone app is in TestFlight while the beta runs. Your invitation carries the link; when it reaches the App Store, this becomes a download.
Every day
Five minutes a morning. Nobody slips.
Today's focus is a handful of things worth doing. Mei, who you usually talk to every week and have not in three months. Tomás's birthday tomorrow. Three introductions waiting on your yes. Handle them and the list empties. It does not refill from your whole address book.
How often to check in follows how often you actually talk: weekly for your closest people, yearly for the rest. Change it for anyone, or tell it not today. The list is under Home on your phone, and under Today's focus on the Mac.
On your iPhone
Five tabs. One plus button.
Home is the day's list. People is everyone, with one filter sheet for sorting and groups. Introductions is what is waiting on you. More holds the rest: notes, reminders, messages, your groups, the network, the map, duplicates and the archive. Search is the fifth tab, the glass in the corner.
Everything new starts from the one plus button in the tab bar. It fans out into a person, a note, a need, an offer, a reminder. On a person's page the same button adds to that person. Nothing is hidden behind a long press.
The phone reads its own Contacts and Calendar when you let it, logs the calls, texts and emails you start from it, and keeps everything in one workspace. The phone is enough on its own; a Mac adds the calls and texts you receive and the years before.
Privacy, plainly
Your people stay with you. The server holds what sync and matching need, and nothing else.
Message and email content never leave your Mac. The server holds your account, the names and details of your people, your notes, what you wrote down that people need and can help with, and who you were in touch with and when. That is what keeps your devices in sync and finds introductions.
Nothing is sold. Nothing is shown to anyone without a choice you make in the app. Delete your account and the server forgets you.
If The Hub went away tomorrow, you would lose a sync server. You would not lose your people.
Who makes it
One person. I am Bobby Beason, and The Hub reads your texts, so you should know whose software it is. The server is a single machine I own and run, not a cloud account, with nightly backups kept for fourteen days. Write to hello@thyic.com and the reply comes from me.
I built it because I kept losing touch with people I liked, and because every time I needed a plumber I ended up asking strangers.
How it starts
Three steps, then it works on its own.
Install on your iPhone, and your Mac if you have one
The iPhone app arrives through TestFlight with your invitation; the Mac app is a download that keeps itself current. Open The Hub and grant it the access you choose. It reads, it never writes. Sign in with your email and it fills itself.
Connect what you use
Contacts and Calendar on the phone; Messages, Mail and a LinkedIn export on the Mac. Your history becomes a timeline for each person, in a few minutes.
Say what people need and can help with
One line for a person is enough. The first introductions come from your own address book, the same day.
Pricing
Free while in private beta.
Paid plans come later. They will be about how much history the server keeps for you so your other devices stay in sync. The app, the matching and everything on your Mac stay yours on every plan, including free. Beta users hear about pricing before it applies to them.
The beta
Ask for an invite.
Invites go out in small batches, to people who will actually use it and tell me what is wrong. You will hear back from me, not a bot, within a week, with an invite or an honest date.
Prefer email? invite@thyic.com
Questions
Do my friends need to be on The Hub for this to work?
Not for the search inside your own contacts; that works alone, from the first day. Reaching a friend's contacts needs that friend to be on The Hub and connected with you. You invite them from the app.
What does the other person see when I introduce them?
Your name and the one line you wrote. The introduction is a link you send yourself, by text or by mail, and the other person does not need The Hub to receive it. They never see your address book.
Can other people see my contacts?
No. Your address book is yours alone. When a match reaches a friend's circle, the other side sees only that someone in your circle fits, and nothing more until you choose to share.
What do you do with the needs I write down about other people?
They stay private to you unless you set one to be visible to your connections. A match is laid out for you first; nobody else learns anything until you act. Write down what people have told you they are looking for, the way you would in a notebook.
Does The Hub send messages or emails on my behalf?
No. It never contacts anyone. Invitations and introductions are links you pass on yourself, and the app records what you did.
Can it read my iPhone's calls and texts?
Only through a Mac. iPhones do not let apps read call history or Messages, so if you have a Mac signed in to the same Apple account, The Hub reads the copies macOS keeps. The iPhone app reads the phone's own Contacts and Calendar, logs what you start from it, and does everything else on its own.
I do not have a Mac. Can I use it?
Yes. The iPhone app is the whole product: your people from Contacts and Calendar, notes, reminders, groups, needs and offers, and the introductions. What you miss without a Mac is the history of calls and texts you received, and Gmail and Microsoft 365 until those connect from the phone. Android and Windows come later. Ask for an invite and say what you use.
Who runs this, and where is the server?
One person, Bobby Beason, on a machine of his own in the United States, backed up nightly. Not a cloud account. Delete your account and the server forgets you; what you exported stays yours.