Your building, in one quiet place.

Thirty flats share one front door and know nothing about each other. Kylala gives a building one circle: parcels find the right door, a ladder finds a borrower, someone waters the plants in August, and everyone can be reached in one message. No real names, no phone numbers passed around, no syndic paperwork, and it is free.

What a building gets

A circle with a steward at the door. One circle is one building. Neighbors come in with a code or by knocking; the steward lets them in with a tap, and “Not now” is silent.
A shared room. Every member reads the same conversation, inside Messages: who takes the recycling out, whose bike is that, the lift is fixed. Text and photos, no feed, no likes.
Parcels to the right door. A parcel left with you becomes a two-tap note to its owner: pick the neighbor, add a line, Let them know. No phone number changes hands.
Home watch while someone is away. Dates and a cadence, a neighbor raises a hand, one is picked, and short check-in reports land in the conversation. Away dates are shown to vouched neighbors only.
One message to everyone. A steward announces once; it lands in each neighbor’s Notifications, never on the map, and a reply becomes a conversation.

What it is not

Kylala is not a syndic tool: no documents, no votes, no accounting, no fees, nothing a landlord has to administer. It is not a feed either: nothing to scroll, no ads. It sits beside what the building already has. The syndic keeps the general meeting; the group chat keeps the chatter, if it survives; the circle takes the favors and the practical questions, with nicknames instead of numbers. Why a group chat breaks at exactly this job.

Start your building in ten minutes

Open the app and confirm your address. You pick a nickname and a generated face; no real name, no phone number, no email needed.
Open a circle named the way the postman would write it: “Rue des Lilas 12” or “Block C”. You become its steward.
Print the A4 poster for the hallway. Its QR code opens the app, and the neighbors you already know get a code from you directly.
Neighbors knock with a line for you; you let them in with a tap.
Say hello once, in the room. Then let the first parcel do the rest.

Two flats are enough to start: a parcel taken in and a ladder lent are already a building that works. Density comes with the third and the tenth, and each one arrives because a neighbor showed a neighbor.

If you are the gardien, on the conseil syndical, or the landlord

You are the person the building already trusts, which makes you the shortest path to a circle that works. What we ask is small: a flyer in the hall, a sentence at the general meeting, a code handed to the neighbor who asks. Be the steward yourself, or hand the role to the resident who already organizes things.

What we never do, and put in writing: no data about residents is sold or shared, no dashboards for landlords or town halls, no fees for the building and none for the neighbors. A landlord or a syndic gets exactly what a resident gets: the app, free. If you look after several buildings and want to talk it through, write to [email protected].

The circle page for Lindengracht 40–48: the neighbors, Hands in this circle chips, the neighbors list and Message everyone. — A circle page: the neighbors, and Message everyone.

Pass on a parcel, step two: the picked neighbor Red Bike with Change, ready-made note chips such as It’s at ours, ring anytime, and the Let them know button. — Passing on a parcel: pick the neighbor, add a line, Let them know.

Questions this guide answers

Does the syndic or the landlord have to agree?

No. A circle is the residents’ own tool, like a noticeboard in the hall that nobody has to approve. Telling the syndic or the gardien is a courtesy that usually turns them into your first allies, and a flyer on the wall is the only thing you might need permission for.

How many neighbors before it is useful?

Two. The first parcel taken in, the first ladder lent: that is already a building that works. The circle grows as neighbors show neighbors; a flyer in the hall and a code handed over the landing do most of it. There is no minimum and no launch date.

What do my neighbors see about me?

Your nickname, your generated face and the offers you chose to write on your card. Never your real name, your phone number, your email or your flat number. The building’s name is visible, because that is how neighbors find the circle; your door is not.

Start with your own front door

Open the app, confirm your address and open the circle. If two neighbors join this month, the building has started. Free, no ads, no real names.

Step onto the street

Field guides for the same hallway: someone else’s parcel at your door, the neighborhood group chat, or having your home watched.