Why +one exists

A social platform that feels like paper

Plus One is a community-based social platform built to help people connect, communicate and find communities around shared interests — whether that's a running partner, a study group, or the people at your workplace who actually reply.

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Interests first, follower counts never

Most networks optimise for who you already know. Plus One starts from what you care about: a tag, a community, a run, a chai. Follows turn into colleagues, colleagues turn into chats — the feed is a place to meet, not a place to perform.

Drawn, not designed into oblivion

The interface is "Graphite & Pulp": ink strokes on warm off-white paper, a faint drafting grid, hand-drawn boxes, masking-tape chips, and one highlighter-yellow accent used the way a real marker is — sparingly. Headlines are set in Bricolage Grotesque, body text in Karla, labels in JetBrains Mono. This website wears the exact same tokens as the app.

Privacy is a feature, not a policy page

Message requests — unknown senders wait for your approval
Disappearing messages hard-deleted from the server
Block, mute, status privacy, per-post audiences
Password-confirmed account deletion with safe cleanup
No fake seed data — every account is a real sign-up

How it's built

One codebase, three surfaces: Expo / React Native on iOS, Android and web, Node.js + Socket.IO on the backend, SQLite on a persistent volume with automatic backups every six hours.

Real-time messaging, presence, calls (WebRTC)
Installable PWA on the web
100% SVG icons and 1445 Twemoji everywhere
Open source: github.com/sakshamfit/BROSKIE

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The people behind +one

Three people, one sketchbook

+one was built by a small team in India for real conversations and communities. Flip through the sketchbook to meet them.

Portrait of Anshuman Pandey, founder of Plus One

Anshuman Pandey {Saksham}

Founder The vision keeper

Founder of +one. Saksham sketched the first idea in a notebook — a messenger that looks like paper and treats every stranger as a potential +1. He shaped the idea, the Graphite & Pulp design language and the direction of the app, and still reviews every screen before it ships.

Portrait of MR.Raish Alam, co-founder of Plus One

MR.Raish Alam {Kartik Raees}

Co-founder The co-pilot

Co-founder of +one. Raees turns ideas into working features — chats, communities, calls — and keeps the product moving smoothly from one release to the next. If something feels fast and just works, he probably built it.

Jai

Team member The all-rounder

The all-rounder. Jai tests every build on real phones, files the bugs nobody else notices, and polishes features across the app until they feel finished. Every smooth edge in +one has passed through his hands first.

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Founded by Anshuman Pandey {Saksham} · Co-founded by MR.Raish Alam {Kartik Raees} · Team Jai — follow the journey on Instagram · @saxamfit

The short version

Plus One ("+one") launched as an experiment: what if a messenger looked like a sketchbook and worked like a serious product? It now ships realtime chat, a worldwide feed, communities, stories, polls, calls, voice notes and a daily AI greeting — on iOS, Android and the web, for free.

The name is the point: everyone you meet here is a potential +1 — the running partner, the study buddy, the colleague who becomes a friend.