Your first week on Frequency

You can land in Frequency before you finish a welcome. If the app still knows you by a generated handle, the getting-started guide on your feed asks for a name first. Pick one at your profile. No long forms, no homework. The welcome also asks how you heard about us. It is optional, you can skip it, and the answer stays with us: it is never shared with ad or analytics tools. The same question shows up, just as optional, when you create a Space. Then Vera, your guide, points you toward a Circle worth joining and steps back out of the way. A few gentle tips show up as you explore after that, never all at once, never blocking your way.

Who you are, in a tap

When you join, we ask who you are (pick all that fit), then one optional follow-up in plain words, like "I'm new around here" or "Just a timer, no fluff." Your answer only changes what we show you first. It never appears on your profile, it isn't shared with other members, and it's never sent to advertisers. Skip it if you like.

Meet Vera

Vera is the guide who keeps this place running. Right after you join, she uses what you told us about your interests to suggest a circle that fits, and offers to get you in with a tap. She's a bridge to your people, not a chatbot to hang out with: once she's pointed you somewhere real, she steps aside. You can always skip straight to Circles instead.

Vera lives in the bar anchored along the bottom right of the screen, next to your Vault. Tap it to open her, your messages, and help. On the left edge you'll find a Next Steps tab that holds whatever's next for you. It quietly nudges when something's waiting, and once you've finished everything it has for you, it disappears.

Your Founder's First Week

Once you're set up, Vera hands you your Founder's First Week: six moves that turn a sign-up into a real member. Do them in any order, at your own pace:

• Say something. Your first post: a hello, a question, a photo from today.
• React to someone. A heart or a +1 lets someone know you saw them.
• Make a friend. Connect with one person.
• Join a second Circle. One Circle is a foothold; two is a life.
• RSVP to something. Say you'll be there. Showing up in person is the whole point.
• Build a 3-day streak. Log a practice three days running.

Each task you finish earns you Gems, and finishing all six earns a bonus plus the gold Founder's First Week badge. You can see your progress any time on the Founder's First Week page (Vera links you there from her "Next Steps" popup). When you don't feel like being nudged, the popup has a "Don't show till tomorrow" option.

You can't get it "wrong"

Nothing here is permanent or high-stakes. Skip a tip and it won't nag you again. Join a Circle and leave if it's not right. The point is to show up as yourself and find your people; everything else is just details you'll pick up along the way.