Making friends as an adult is hard. Meeting new people online turned into performing for strangers. MedallionMaze is different. You get matched with someone you've never met, you create something together for 15 minutes, and you decide if you want to know each other after. No profiles. No scrolling. Just a shared experience and a choice.
It's not about quitting social media. It's about wanting more from it.
You don't need another person telling you to put your phone down. You already know what scrolling feels like. The boredom, the comparison, the thing where you close Instagram and then immediately reopen it for no reason. The problem was never that you're online too much. It's that nothing online is giving you anything back.
So we built something where you actually do something with someone
You get matched with a person you've never met. You don't see their face. You don't read their bio. You just start. Drawing together on a shared canvas, arguing about whether pineapple belongs on pizza, building playlists off the same mood and revealing them at the same time to see if your music taste says the same thing about you.
It lasts 15 minutes. When it's over, both of you decide: keep or let go. If you both choose keep, you find out who the other person is. If either of you doesn't, it disappears. No profile. No trace. Just the memory of something that happened between two people who didn't know each other 20 minutes ago.
The people who show up aren't looking for followers. They're looking for someone who gets it.
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15 minutes. One stranger. Something real.
Sessions go live every night. No profile needed. No audience. Just you and someone you haven't met yet, making something together.