real vibes. Real? Vibe it. 01 / 13
Seed Round · 2026 Live on the App Store

real vibes.

A FRiNGE product

Real creators. Real moments you can trust.

One take videos. No editing. No filters. No AI.

Real? Vibe it.

👉 Open fringe.travel on your phone

Experience it before we say another word.

Seed Round · $1M @ $5M post · fringe.travel · Follow on X
real vibes. 02 / 13 · The problem

The problem

Real creators have nowhere to build.

📸 Instagram

"Compete on production."

Best edit wins.

🎬 TikTok

"Chase the algorithm."

Trend or die.

🎥 YouTube

"Match the studios."

Full production or nothing.

🤖 AI

"Fake it faster."

Synthetic scales for pennies.

Creators have nowhere to get paid for showing up. Fans have nowhere to find real people.

Not the influencer. Not the video producer. Not the AI channel.

The dog walker. The kite surfer. The neighborhood local. The event photographer. Anyone with a phone and something real to share, and nowhere to share it.

🎥
Live

Real Vibes

"Show up. Build. Get paid."

One take. Fans subscribe directly to you.

AI video costs fell 87% in one year. As synthetic content floods every platform, real human creators become the scarce commodity worth paying for.

Sources: TechCrunch (Google Veo 2 launch pricing, Feb 2025) · Atlas Cloud AI video pricing guide (2026).

real vibes. 03 / 13 · Our solution

Our solution

Creators get paid.
Fans get pure.

Two-sided value on one platform. The same primitive (one take, unedited video) is the creator's easy path to income and the subscriber's guarantee of what is real.

For creators

Get paid to show up.

💳
Direct subscriptions
Fans pay $5 a month to the creators they trust. 80 percent to the creator.
🤙
Shakas (tips)
One tap tips on any vibe. Fans reward great moments in real time.
✋
Vibe Requests
Fans pay creators to capture specific moments on demand.
🎬
One take. Zero production.
No editing, no thumbnails, no algorithm chase. Show up how you want.

For subscribers

Pure. Authentic. Real people.

🎥
Every vibe is one take
Enforced at the capture layer. No pause, no re-do, no polish pass.
✂️
No editing. No filters.
Upload is the raw take. No cuts, no color grading, no beauty passes.
🚫
No AI. Ever.
Synthetic generation is not allowed on the platform. If you see it here, a real person made it.
💚
Direct support of creators
Your subscription goes straight to the person making the vibes you love. No middlemen.
Jannah

“I’ve never dreamed of being an influencer. I just want to share something real in Boracay without having to edit. With Real Vibes I can, hassle free, and I get paid for it.”

Jannah · Local Bestie of Boracay

real vibes. 04 / 13 · The trust stack

The trust stack

Authenticity Isn't One Feature.
It's a System.

Every vibe is strengthened by multiple layers. Any one can be spoofed. All seven together cannot.

✓
One-take capture
Enforced at the recording layer. No pause, no re-do.
✓
No editing
Upload is the raw take. No filters, no cuts, no color grading.
✓
GPS location
Stamped at capture from device sensors, not user input.
✓
Direct upload
App to CDN, no intermediary tool. Metadata can't be scrubbed.
✓
Community reputation
Subscribers, followers, Shakas earned from a real audience.
✓
Trust Levels
Verified Viber → Frequent Local → Local Bestie. Compounds over time.
✓
Fresh, current content
Timestamps surfaced. An hour ago beats a 2019 review.
7
Together, difficult to copy.
Competitors can build one layer, not the compounding stack.
real vibes. 05 / 13 · Product

Product

Create. Watch. Get paid.

Three screens. One loop. Every creator moves through all three.

Real Vibes Living Globe — fresh vibes worldwide.
🌐
Discover

Find real creators.

Browse one take videos from real people. Anywhere, anytime, any topic.

Real Vibes viber profile — one take vibes from a real creator.
👤
Subscribe

Support the creators you love.

Every viber has a profile. Fans subscribe for $5 a month. 80 percent goes to the creator.

Real Vibes live capture — one-take recording.
🔴
Live
Create

Show up. Get paid.

One take. Whatever you want to share. Fans subscribe directly to you.

real vibes. 06 / 13 · Market opportunity

Market opportunity

Sitting on Two Shifts.

Shift 1

Creator Economy

Millions of creators earn directly from communities that trust them. Substack, Patreon, OnlyFans, Twitch. The pattern is set. The unlock is bringing it to place-based content.

Shift 2

Trust Crisis

AI-generated and edited content have made verifiable authenticity more valuable than ever. A trust layer is now a category, not a feature.

$3.2T

Experiential travel market

2025 · growing to $6.1T by 2034

1.4B+

International tourists

annually worldwide

75%

Want authentic experiences

from local culture (Booking.com)

Travel is our first market. The same model expands into anywhere people want to know what's really happening.

Sports Restaurants Events Neighborhoods Outdoor recreation Local communities

Sources: MarketIntelo Experiential Travel Market Report 2026 · Booking.com Sustainable Travel Research · UN Tourism.

real vibes. 07 / 13 · A new category

A new category

No Platform Combines These Four Things.

Platform Reality Current Place-Based Creator Income
Real Vibes Real ✓ ✓ ✓
X Mixed ✓ ✗ ✓
Instagram Edited Partial Partial ✓
TikTok Edited Partial Partial ✓
BeReal Partial Partial ✗ Limited
Google Maps Static ✗ ✓ ✗
OnlyFans Personal ✓ ✗ ✓

Existing platforms force trade-offs. Real Vibes is the first to combine authentic video, real-time discovery, location utility, and direct creator monetization.

real vibes. 08 / 13 · Business model

Business model

Creators Earn Directly.

💳

Subscriptions

Fans subscribe to the Vibers they trust. $5 / month recurring, per Viber.

🤙

Shakas

Fans reward great vibes with tips. One-tap appreciation that adds up.

✋

Vibe Requests

Users pay for on-demand fresh vibes. Vibers get paid for capturing.

80%

To Creators

Every dollar a fan spends, 80¢ goes to the Viber.

The best creator take rate in the category. Aligns the platform’s growth with creator income.

20%

FRiNGE Take

Applied to every subscription, Shaka, and request.

Scales with GMV. No ads. No user data sold. Aligned incentives.

Base + Upside

Subscriptions are the recurring base. Shakas and Vibe Requests are pure upside layered on top — every tap and every request compounds ARPU without touching the sub tier.

Network Compounds

Every request adds a proof point. Content brings users. Users bring more content. Trust compounds with volume.

Simple Aligned Scalable
real vibes. 09 / 13 · Roadmap

Roadmap

What Ships When.

Today
  • One-take capture
  • Hybrid discovery
  • Creator subscriptions
Next
  • Vibe Requests
  • Shakas
  • Trust Levels
Future
  • Smart reminders
  • Tourism partnerships
  • Brand partnerships
  • Global creator network
real vibes. 10 / 13 · Early traction

Early traction

Launched. Live. Recurring.

Launched April 2026 Live on the App Store iOS + Web

People

—

Signed-up Vibers

Live from Supabase

—

Daily active users

iOS + Web · PostHog

—

Weekly active users

iOS + Web · PostHog

Content

—

Total vibes posted

All time · Supabase

—

Vibes last 30 days

Recurring engagement

—

Active vibers

Posted in last 30 days

Money · Live from Stripe

—

Active subscriptions

Paid + trialing · Stripe

—

Total MRR

Live from Stripe · 80% (—) to creators

Early users consistently return because they trust what they see.

Every number refreshes live on page load. Signup + vibe counts pull from Supabase via the site_stats RPC. DAU and WAU pull from the FRiNGE PostHog dashboard through a Netlify edge proxy. Subscriptions and MRR pull straight from Stripe via the stripe-stats edge function.

real vibes. 11 / 13 · Team

Team

Two Engineers. One Category.

Brian Gallagher

Brian Gallagher

Founder & CEO

EE Serial Entrepreneur Previous Exit

Electrical engineer. Serial entrepreneur with a previous exit in the electric vehicle industry. Built and sold products end-to-end from concept through acquisition. Sets the product direction and runs the go-to-market.

Jonathan McAllister

Jonathan McAllister

Co-Founder & CTO

EE Big Tech Infra Full-Stack

Electrical engineer. Full-stack + infrastructure engineer with Big Tech scale experience. Architects the pipeline that captures, verifies, transcodes, and serves trusted real-time video end-to-end.

2

Person Team

Two engineers, amplified by AI. Shipping like a much larger team.

Brian's stack

Claude Code Cursor Supabase

Jonny's stack

VS Code Copilot Xcode Claude / Gemini / Grok Supabase AWS

Telegram

~50 employees. 900M+ users.

Category-defining product. Tiny team.

WhatsApp

55 employees. $19B exit.

$345M of value per person at exit.

Advisors and additional team roles added on active decks.

real vibes. 12 / 13 · The ask

The ask

Raising $1M.

Seed Round $5M Post-Money 20% Discount SAFE Rolling close

Use of funds

Product development35%
Creator acquisition30%
User growth25%
Partnerships10%

Revenue trajectory

$5/mo sub · 20% take rate · 80% to creators. GMV = subs × $5. FRiNGE ARR = GMV × 20% × 12.

Year 1

500 vibers · 30 subs avg

$180K ARR

$900K GMV

Low $60K RANGE High $360K

Year 2

5K vibers · 75 subs avg

$4.5M ARR

$22.5M GMV

Low $1.5M RANGE High $9M

Year 3

25K vibers · 125 subs avg

$37.5M ARR

$187M GMV

Low $12M RANGE High $75M

Base scenario shown. Low = slower ramp + lower avg subs. High = accelerated. Subs-only. Shakas + Requests are upside on all three.

Milestones with this raise

Launch Vibe Requests globally Roll out Trust Levels Expand creator earnings Scale beyond travel
real vibes. Real? Vibe it. 13 / 13 · Vision

Vision

Where real
creators get paid.

The internet doesn't need more content.

It needs more real creators, paid directly.

Real Vibes is the creator platform for one take video. Show up. Build an audience. Get paid.

One take. Real creators. Direct subscriptions.
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