ABOUT
I wanted a different kind of messenger.
Messaging has become something you almost have to participate in.
If everyone you know is on the same app, not being there means missing messages, plans, photos, and sometimes entire conversations.
I kept wondering what a messenger would look like if it didn’t have to work that way.
What if it could stay small?
What if you joined because the people you wanted to talk to were there, rather than because everyone was?
That’s why I started building Genco.
01
It doesn’t need everyone.
I don’t think a messenger has to become the place where your entire social life happens.
Most of us talk to a surprisingly small group of people anyway. Family. Close friends. A few people we message every day.
That’s enough.
Genco is deliberately built around that smaller circle.
Someone you know invites you. You decide who you want to talk to.
It doesn’t need to be for everyone.
02
I wanted the conversations to actually be private.
A lot of products use “private” to mean that your account isn’t public.
I mean something simpler.
If you and a friend are talking, I don’t think the company running the messenger should be able to read along.
That’s why messages are encrypted before they leave your phone. It’s also why Genco doesn’t need your phone number or email address to create your account.
There are plenty of technical details behind that. The important part is the idea:
The conversation is yours.
03
It’s still small.
Genco is version 1.0.
It’s built and operated by one person, and there are plenty of things I haven’t figured out yet.
That’s actually part of why I like working on it.
I don’t need to build something that works for everyone. I can make choices that would be difficult if the goal was to get hundreds of millions of people onto it.
For now, I’m interested in seeing how good a messenger can be when it doesn’t have to become enormous.
So that’s what I’m building.
Genco
Small by design. Private by design.For the people you already know.