TAM
Every human who has ever lived. Most of them were already on a cave wall.
Series A · led by
Say less.
Say nothing.
Grunt is the world's first pre-verbal social network. No posts. No takes. No words. Just you, a wall, and some ochre.
0words posted, ever
·paintings on the wall
·fires lit
Language was a mistake.
Humans have been posting for about five thousand years and it has been downhill since the first word. Every argument you have ever lost started with one. Every doomscroll is made of them. We asked a simple question: what if we went back to before?
We are not anti-technology. We are pre-technology.
How it works
- Find a wall.We provide one. It is shared with everyone, like the old days.
- Smear.Ochre, charcoal, hematite or chalk. With your finger, the way the ancestors intended.
- Feel nothing.Other cave people can give you one 🔥. That is the only reaction. There is nothing to reply to.
The deck
Moat
An actual cave.
Retention
Once you are in a cave, where would you go?
Unit economics
Ochre is free. Walls are free. Our only cost is fire, and we are seed-funded on fire.
Trust and safety
Bad paintings get rocks thrown at them. Three rocks and the tribe has spoken.
Roadmap
Q1: fire. Q2: the spear. Q3: the wheel, pending an ethics review. Q4: we stop there.
We passed on fire. We were not going to pass on this.
It is the first social network I have used where I came out knowing less than I went in. That is the product.
I quit my job, moved into a cave, and built an app for it. People said the cave did not need an app. They were wrong about that, and about me.
Grunt Premium
€8 a month. Per moon, technically.
- A verified handprint next to your name
- Priority wall space, near the fire
- See who looked at your painting (it was a bird)
Also in the cave.
Nothing you do here is counted.