Team

Make streets smaller, everywhere.

Kylala exists because the people best placed to help you live twenty meters away, and no tool was built for exactly that. We build the map where neighbors ask for a hand and give one: free in both directions, private by construction, worldwide by default.

We hold three promises as constraints, not slogans:

Free in both directions; no subscription exists. No response quotas, no premium queue, nothing to cancel.
Privacy that holds. No real names, no phone numbers on our servers, addresses never shown, deletion that really deletes.
Honesty as a habit. We describe others fairly, publish how the service runs, and design so that the app is needed less as a street gets to know itself.

How it started

Every neighborhood app before us chose one of two roads: sell the helpers a subscription, or sell the neighbors’ attention to advertisers. We are building the third road, mutual aid as infrastructure: asking is free, helping is free, and nobody’s identity, address or attention is the product. The product is a live map of a street where a ladder finds a borrower, a parcel finds its door, and a home gets watched while its people are away.

What we read first

Before opening the street to anyone, we read what the incumbent asks of you: its 142 live help-center articles and its terms, a sample of 500 of its reviews (May to August 2026), and every rival’s site, checked live on 5 August 2026. What that reading ruled out for Kylala: real names, ads, paid help, a fear category, subscriptions, deals on residents’ data.

Where it stands

September 2026: the app is live in four languages; the streets are new and start quiet. Be the first neighbor on yours. If you run your neighborhood’s group, write to us: a circle for your block with you as steward, and the steward tools a group chat lacks: knock approval, invite codes, one message to everyone.

The team

Zouhair Jemmaa

Founder

Zouhair builds Kylala end to end (product, engineering and the neighborly stubbornness about privacy) from Geneva, and tests every release the honest way: on real phones, at a real front door. LinkedIn

Work on Kylala

The team is small on purpose, but it is not closed. If the mission reads like something you would give your best hours to (engineering, design, community, languages), introduce yourself: [email protected]. Tell us what you would build first; that says more than any CV.

Partnerships, sponsoring & investment

Kylala runs deliberately lean and grows on its own terms, and we talk gladly with people who can bend the curve: companies that want to sponsor a free, ad-free public good their customers actually live on; institutions that want their residents’ streets connected without buying their data (that part is non-negotiable); and investors who read “free in both directions” as strategy rather than charity. For any of these, one door: [email protected].

Individuals who simply want to help keep the lights on can support the project directly; every contribution goes to running costs, and we like keeping those embarrassingly small.

The map is the argument

Everything above is words. Open it, see your street, and you’ll know in a minute whether this is worth your time.

Step onto the street