About Face Up

An app that plays its cards face up.

Face Up deals people one card at a time, face up. It is a reader: any Pool it may read opens here, the way a browser opens any page. Seven decks are ready-made shortcuts, for a date, someone to climb with, a runner at your pace, a bandmate, a seat at a game-night table, a walking partner and a mentor. Any other Pool opens under its own name. Who said yes to you is free to see, the order is a control with one honest line, and every deck ends.

Open the app Our two rules Every Pool

67Pools open in Face Up: 60 public ones, plus 7 unlisted ones for people who are in them or have the address

7decks as shortcuts, and any other Pool under its own name, with its own yes

161people in the public Pools we open, 139 of them from Pools other people keep. We never had to sign anyone up.

0things you pay for to see who said yes to you, or to be seen

Our rules

Two rules, and the spec

Face Up claims two rules, from the draft proposal “Reading a Pool on its own terms”. Everything else a reader owes a Pool is already in the Kindling spec, and we follow it there.

Every card shows the Pool’s name, charter and tags.
No one is shown as open to dating unless their own tags say so.

Visibility is the spec’sAn invite-only Pool is never read, and an unlisted one only for someone who is in it or has its address §3.2.
Messages and introductions are the spec’s, and the Pool’sA yes goes the way the Pool’s charter or governance says: to the person, by their own rules, or through a curator or steward where it says so §7. Correo Lento’s is a letter; the Orchard Street Household is listed for context only, so it takes no yes.
A site’s word about its own PoolFoul Weather Friends asks apps not to read the Check-In Circle, so Face Up doesn’t, the way a browser leaves a site alone that asks not to be read.

The decks

Shortcuts, and any Pool under its own name

A deck is a ready-made shortcut: it gathers the Pools whose tags name what it is for, and shows each person under the Pool they joined. Someone in a dating Pool and a climbing Pool is two cards in two decks, each naming its Pool. Any Pool no deck gathers still opens: as a deck named for the Pool, or for the product you loaded, holding only its Pools.

Dating
Yes, a date
People in Pools tagged dating whose own tags say dating.Gathers Pools tagged dating: Face Up: Cascadia, Heartwood: Nearby, Sundial: Cascadia, Card Catalog: Cascadia, Many Moons: Harbor Counties, Date-Me Docs: Cascadia, The Singles Shelf. 57 people today.With the address: Queer Harbor: Dating, The Tuesday Table, Second Chapters.Orders: Newest here, Nearest, Most in common, Shuffle.
Climbing partners
Yes, climb together
Drip Line’s climbers: people who passed a staff belay check, the Tuesday regulars and people new to it.Gathers Pools tagged climbing, belay or bouldering: Belay Partners, Tuesday Regulars, New to Climbing. 9 people today.With the address: Thursday Night: Women and Nonbinary Climbers.Orders: Checked first, Newest here, Shuffle.
The Saturday Run
Yes, run together
Saturday at eight from Drip Line’s front doors: 5 or 10 km, three paces, coffee after.Gathers Pools tagged running: The Saturday Run. 7 people today.Orders: Newest here, Longest running, Shuffle.
Bandmates and players
Yes, play together
Ferry Room Players and Slack Water’s session players: a band to start, a Friday to fill, a tune to join, a horn line for a record.Gathers Pools tagged band, sub or session: Start a Band: Port Ellery, Friday Subs, Session Players, Horns and Strings for Records. 10 people today.Orders: Newest here, Friday subs first, Shuffle.
Game night
Yes, share a table
Rain Check’s Thursday tables in Port Ellery, Olympia, Tacoma and Portland, and everyone in Rain Check.Gathers Pools tagged game-night: Port Ellery Thursdays, Olympia Thursdays, Tacoma Thursdays, Portland Thursdays, Rain Check: Everyone. 18 people today.Orders: Nearest table, Newest here, Shuffle.
Walking partners
Yes, walk together
The Tuesday Morning Walkers at the Port Ellery Free Library: the harbor loop at eight, any pace.Gathers Pools tagged walking: Tuesday Morning Walkers. 4 people today.Orders: Newest here, Longest walking, Shuffle.
First-generation mentors
Yes, ask to meet
People who were first in their families to go to college, now working, glad to talk to students who are.Gathers Pools tagged mentorship: Midspan Mentors, Cape Tarrow First-Gen Alumni. 7 people today.Orders: Newest here, Nearest, Shuffle.
Under its own name
Its own yes
Any other Pool: 40 of them today, from a seed swap to a festival’s rides home. It opens as a deck named for the Pool, or for the product you loaded, and each card still names its own Pool.The yes names the Pool, in the Pool’s own verb where its charter gives one: “Yes, trade seeds”, “Yes, ask to borrow”, “Write a letter”. 91 people today in the public ones.Open one from “Open a Pool”, beside the decks, or load its product.

Swipe and match are dating words, and we use them in the Dating deck. The other decks, and every deck named for a Pool, say what they mean: “Yes, climb together”, “Yes, share a table”, “Yes, say hello”.

Why we opened full

An app is only as good as the people in it.

That’s why one company ended up with most of the people in dating: the biggest pool in town wins, and a new app opens empty. Friendship never even got an app worth the name.

Kindling changes the part underneath. People keep their profile on their own page, and curators gather pages into Pools: open lists anyone can host and any app can read, with each person’s yes §3 §5.1. A climbing gym keeps its belay partners, a board-game group keeps its Thursday tables, a library keeps its walkers and its seed swap. So Face Up didn’t have to own anyone. On our first day, the Pools that already existed were there to open, with everyone in them still deciding who may write to them. Every deck opened full.

It also changes the money. An app that owns its people is paid while you’re still looking, so it pays to ration attention and sell the reveal. When anyone can leave in a tap and keep their people, those tricks stop paying. We compete with the other apps on care instead, reading the same Pools.

Face up, where it’s usually face down

What we do instead

The part	The usual way	Face Up
Who said yes to you	Blurred until you pay.	A grid of their faces, free, the day they say yes, in every deck.
A stronger yes	Sold one at a time, or in a tier.	There isn’t one. A note on a yes says more, and it’s free.
Undo	A paid feature.	Free, as often as you like. Press Z.
The order of a deck	Hidden, and payers shown first.	You choose it, deck by deck, each order with one honest line under it. Nobody pays to be higher.
How many yeses a day	An unpublished cap that nudges you to pay.	No cap. If we ever set a limit it will be published here, the same for everyone.
Filters	Age and distance free; the good ones paid.	Every filter free, for everyone, and never a filter on a field someone left blank.
Boosts, travel, incognito	Paid, to be seen more, somewhere else, or less.	Not sold. Who sees you is set by the Pools you joined, and nothing else.
Where a card comes from	Nowhere you can see.	Every card names its Pool, a line of its charter and its tags, with its curator and links to the Pool on its own site and to its JSON.
What you can open	Only what the app decided to show you.	Any Pool Face Up may read, the way a browser opens any page. Our decks are shortcuts, not walls.
Cancelling	Buried a few screens deep.	One tap, from the You tab, and it’s done.
Leaving	Your people and messages leave with your account.	Your page, your other Pools, everyone’s addresses and your emails stay with you.
A block	Holds in that one app.	Kept on their Kindling identity, in every deck, and your email can hold it too: every Kindling message is email underneath.

What we kept, because it keeps people safe

A face check, for datingA person on our trust desk compares a live selfie with the pictures on your page before Face Up: Cascadia lists you. It’s a curator’s vouch, local to that Pool.
Block, report and undoOn every card and in every chat, one tap each, in every deck.
A nudge before a hurtful messageIf a message looks like it might land hard, we ask once. You can still send it.
Share my planSend a friend who, where and when, with their page: a first date, a first climb, a first game night.
A yes that says what it is forEach yes names its purpose and its Pool: “Yes, climb together”, “Yes, trade seeds”, “Write a letter”.
Plain cancellationOne tap. No survey, no countdown, no second screen.

Where the money comes from

Face Up is free. Here’s how we’re paid.

Nothing about who sees you, who you see, or how many yeses you give is for sale. Nobody pays to be introduced.

Face Up nightsTicketed evenings at a bar, a few times a month around Cascadia, where people who’d like to meet can meet in person. The ticket pays for the night and the room. It doesn’t change anyone’s place in any deck, and you don’t need one to use the app.
An optional membershipWe host your own profile page at your own address, with the h-card markup every Kindling parser reads §2.2. It’s yours: take it with you, point any app at it, and cancel in one tap. It changes nothing about who sees you.

We haven’t set prices. When we do, they’ll be printed here, the same for everyone. Nothing is charged at the connection layer §1.3. The Pools we read cost us nothing and pay us nothing.

What Face Up reads

Every Pool, and where it opens

One row per Pool in the library. Every Pool Face Up may read opens here, in the deck that gathers it or under its own name §8.3. What we may read is the spec’s: never an invite-only Pool, and an unlisted one only with its address §3.2. Where a Pool’s own words send a yes through its curator, or make it a letter, or list people for context only, we do as it says. Face Up: Cascadia is ours; the rest belong to their curators, and anyone can read them too.

67 of 70 Pools open in Face Up: 60 public ones, and 7 unlisted ones with the address. 7 send a yes through a curator, 1 is read for context only, 27 open in a deck and 40 under their own name. 3 are never read.

Pool	Kept by	Host	Opens in	Visibility	People	Face Up
Card Catalog: Cascadia	Ambrose Achterberg	Card Catalog	Dating	public	24	Reads. In the Dating deck. Tagged dating.
Face Up: Cascadia	Adaeze Nwosu, Brody Kaleikini	Face Up	Dating	public	22	Reads. In the Dating deck. Our own Pool. The face check is how people get in; its charter says that when you both go right, you can write.
Heartwood: Nearby	Harriet Lund, Bashir Rahimi	Heartwood	Dating	public	23	Reads. In the Dating deck. Tagged dating.
Many Moons: Harbor Counties	Lux Moreno, Søren Aalto	Many Moons	Dating, and its own name	public	7	Reads. In the Dating deck for people whose own tags say dating, and under its own name for Tamsin Reyes and Anouk Visser, whose own tags don’t. Friends first, dating when both people want it, by its own charter.
The Singles Shelf	Imogen Pratt	Second Tide Books	Dating	public	4	Reads. In the Dating deck. Tagged dating.
Sundial: Cascadia	Ottilie Varga	Sundial	Dating	public	20	Reads. In the Dating deck. Tagged dating.
Date-Me Docs: Cascadia	Wren Alvarez	Wren’s List	Dating	public	4	Reads. In the Dating deck. Tagged dating.
Queer Harbor: Dating	Dee Okonkwo	Queer Harbor	Dating	unlisted	3	Reads, only with the address. In the Dating deck. Its address travels from the bar and from friends, and we never guess one.
Second Chapters	Nadia Farouk	Late Supper	Dating	unlisted	2	Reads, only with the address, through its curator. In the Dating deck. Late Supper’s rules: only a matchmaker proposes, and only people she has met. So a yes here is a request to Nadia Farouk, and nothing goes to the person.
The Tuesday Table	Nadia Farouk	Late Supper	Dating	unlisted	4	Reads, only with the address, through its curator. In the Dating deck. Late Supper’s rules: only a matchmaker proposes, and only people she has met. So a yes here is a request to Nadia Farouk, and nothing goes to the person.
Belay Partners	Pilar Echeverría, Emil Kowalczyk	Drip Line	Climbing	public	6	Reads. In the Climbing deck. Vouching-required at the door: staff watch each climber belay once. Its charter says members would like to be asked to climb, so a yes goes to the climber.
New to Climbing	Lark Tanaka, Pilar Echeverría	Drip Line	Climbing	public	2	Reads. In the Climbing deck. Tagged climbing.
Tuesday Regulars	Hugo Sandoval, Lark Tanaka	Drip Line	Climbing	public	6	Reads. In the Climbing deck. Tagged bouldering, climbing.
Thursday Night: Women and Nonbinary Climbers	Lark Tanaka, Pilar Echeverría	Drip Line	Climbing	unlisted	5	Reads, only with the address. In the Climbing deck. Its keepers give the address to no app: a member who wants it in an app adds it there themselves. So Face Up reads it only when you paste it, even if you are in it.
The Saturday Run	Winnie Otieno, Cass Whitaker	Drip Line	Saturday Run	public	7	Reads. In the Saturday Run deck. Tagged running.
Friday Subs	Lena Brightwater	Ferry Room Players	Bandmates	public	3	Reads. In the Bandmates deck. Tagged sub.
Horns and Strings for Records	Oswaldo “Ozzie” Reyes, Lena Brightwater	Ferry Room Players	Bandmates	public	2	Reads. In the Bandmates deck. Tagged session: players for records and shows. Rates are between the player and the band; the Pool only makes the introduction.
Start a Band: Port Ellery	Oswaldo “Ozzie” Reyes	Ferry Room Players	Bandmates	public	4	Reads. In the Bandmates deck. Tagged band.
Session Players	Callum Rees, Beatriz Nunes	Slack Water	Bandmates	public	8	Reads. In the Bandmates deck. Tagged session.
Olympia Thursdays	Fern Achterberg, Philippa “Pip” Albright	Rain Check	Game night	public	3	Reads. In the Game night deck. Tagged game-night.
Port Ellery Thursdays	Dolores “Lola” Brandvold, Imre Kovács	Rain Check	Game night	public	5	Reads. In the Game night deck. Tagged game-night.
Portland Thursdays	Bao Tran, Oriol Puig	Rain Check	Game night	public	3	Reads. In the Game night deck. Tagged game-night.
Rain Check: Everyone	Fern Achterberg, Rashid Omondi	Rain Check	Game night	public	18	Reads. In the Game night deck. Tagged game-night.
Tacoma Thursdays	Rashid Omondi, Mahlet Bekele	Rain Check	Game night	public	4	Reads. In the Game night deck. Tagged game-night.
Tuesday Morning Walkers	Maggie O’Rourke, Rosa Delgado-Park	The Board at Port Ellery Free Library	Walking	public	4	Reads. In the Walking deck. Tagged walking.
Cape Tarrow First-Gen Alumni	Bertrand Lomax	Cape Tarrow Alumni	Mentors	public	5	Reads. In the Mentors deck. Tagged mentorship.
Midspan Mentors	Desmond Oyelaran, Josefina “Fina” Arriaga	Midspan	Mentors	public	5	Reads, through its curator. In the Mentors deck. Midspan’s rules: nobody writes to anyone until a coordinator has asked both people and both have said yes. So a yes here is a request to Josefina “Fina” Arriaga, the coordinator, and nothing goes to the mentor.
Ada Quillon’s Listeners	Ada Quillon, Noemi Castro	Ada Quillon	Its own name	public	12	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, say hello”.
House Show in Tacoma, Saturday 17 October	Ada Quillon, Kiri Walsh	Ada Quillon	Its own name	public	3	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, say hello”.
Portland, Friday 23 October	Ada Quillon	Ada Quillon	Its own name	public	2	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, say hello”.
Release Night: Kitchen Light at the Ferry Room, Friday 16 October	Ada Quillon, Lena Brightwater	Ada Quillon	Its own name	public	3	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, say hello”.
Español ↔ English	Valeria Ortiz	Correo Lento	Its own name	public	4	Reads. Opens under its own name. Correo Lento’s rules: slow letters, by email, one a week at most. The co-op holds every first letter until both people have said they would like to write, whatever a member’s own setting. So a yes here says you would like to write, and the first letter goes when you both have.
Français ↔ English	Valeria Ortiz	Correo Lento	Its own name	public	2	Reads. Opens under its own name. Correo Lento’s rules: slow letters, by email, one a week at most. The co-op holds every first letter until both people have said they would like to write, whatever a member’s own setting. So a yes here says you would like to write, and the first letter goes when you both have.
Português ↔ English	João Batista Lima, Valeria Ortiz	Correo Lento	Its own name	public	4	Reads. Opens under its own name. Correo Lento’s rules: slow letters, by email, one a week at most. The co-op holds every first letter until both people have said they would like to write, whatever a member’s own setting. So a yes here says you would like to write, and the first letter goes when you both have.
Tagalog ↔ English	Rizal Santos	Correo Lento	Its own name	public	2	Reads. Opens under its own name. Correo Lento’s rules: slow letters, by email, one a week at most. The co-op holds every first letter until both people have said they would like to write, whatever a member’s own setting. So a yes here says you would like to write, and the first letter goes when you both have.
Door and Sound Crew	Wes Adeyemi, Lena Brightwater	Ferry Room Players	Its own name	public	1	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, say hello”.
Songwriters’ Demo Swap	Oswaldo “Ozzie” Reyes	Ferry Room Players	Its own name	public	2	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, trade demos”.
Lend and Borrow	Elena Vasquez, Bet Larkin	Foul Weather Friends	Its own name	public	7	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, ask to borrow”. Neighbors who lend what they have; they say yes or no each time. Borrowers are never listed.
Rides to Appointments	Cyrus Otero	Foul Weather Friends	Its own name	public	3	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, ask for a ride”. Neighbors who drive people to appointments. People who ask for rides are never listed.
Later-Life Housemates	Omar Qureshi	Hearthhold	Its own name	public	3	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, say hello”. Friendship, not romance, by its own charter. Each person’s own rules decide who may write to them.
Heartwood: Friends nearby	Bashir Rahimi, Harriet Lund	Heartwood	Its own name	public	9	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, say hello”. Friends, not dates, by its own charter. Nobody in it is shown as open to dating.
Client Builders	Kindling maintainers, Imani Brooks	Kindling	Its own name	public	3	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, trade notes”.
Founding Curators	Kindling maintainers, Rosa Delgado-Park	Kindling	Its own name	public	7	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, say hello”.
Spec Readers	Kindling maintainers, Tobias Weiler	Kindling	Its own name	public	4	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, say hello”.
Toward a Working Group	Kindling maintainers, Tobias Weiler, Ingrid Solberg	Kindling	Its own name	public	3	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, say hello”.
Writers and Researchers	Kindling maintainers, Mei-Lin Zhou	Kindling	Its own name	public	3	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, say hello”.
Late Supper Matchmakers	Nadia Farouk	Late Supper	Its own name	public	1	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, ask for a first conversation”. Tagged dating, but its one entry is Nadia Farouk, a matchmaker whose own tags don’t say dating, so the Dating deck never deals her. Anyone may ask her for a first conversation.
Solo Poly Supper Club	Søren Aalto	Many Moons	Its own name	public	2	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, say hello”.
Big Game Day	Odalys Fuentes, Fern Achterberg	Rain Check	Its own name	public	8	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, say hello”.
Scattered Light Stewards	Inés Calloway, Clare Whitford	Scattered Light	Its own name	public	3	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, write to a steward”. Listed publicly so anyone can find a steward to write to. Stewards are peers, not clinicians.
Seen Work Curators	Delphine Arceneaux, Rigoberto “Rigo” Paz	Seen Work	Its own name	public	2	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, ask about a job”. Listed so anyone can ask a curator about a job. It costs nothing, on either side.
Crew and Volunteers	Guadalupe “Lupe” Serrano, Wes Adeyemi	Slack Water	Its own name	public	5	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, say hello”.
Rides Home	Bram de Wit	Slack Water	Its own name	public	5	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, share a ride”.
Slack Water 2025	Marit Halvorsen	Slack Water	Its own name	public	7	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, say hello”. Resting since 24 September: nobody was named to keep it after the festival, and Birdie Novak is nominated. It opens, says it is resting, and hides nobody.
Slack Water 2026	Marit Halvorsen, Birdie Novak	Slack Water	Its own name	public	18	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, say hello”.
Carpool to the Coast	Bram de Wit, Rosa Delgado-Park	The Board at Port Ellery Free Library	Its own name	public	2	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, share a ride”.
Chess After Close	Amos Whitlock	The Board at Port Ellery Free Library	Its own name	public	3	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, play chess”. Resting since 16 September: its keeper moved inland in June, and Priya Raman is nominated to keep it. It opens, says it is resting, and hides nobody.
Conversation Partners, Any Language	Rosa Delgado-Park	The Board at Port Ellery Free Library	Its own name	public	3	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, practice together”.
Fix-It Friday Volunteers	Elena Vasquez, Rosa Delgado-Park	The Board at Port Ellery Free Library	Its own name	public	3	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, say hello”.
New in Town	Rosa Delgado-Park	The Board at Port Ellery Free Library	Its own name	public	2	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, say hello”.
Seed and Cutting Swap	June Okafor, Rosa Delgado-Park	The Board at Port Ellery Free Library	Its own name	public	3	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, trade seeds”.
Circular Correspondents	Ruth Adler	The Circular	Its own name	public	4	Reads. Opens under its own name, where a yes says “Yes, say hello”.
Meals When It’s Hard	Hester Oduya	Foul Weather Friends	Its own name	public	4	Reads, through its curator. Opens under its own name. Hester keeps the list and the calendar: a friend writes to her, with the household’s yes, and she asks the cooks. So a yes here is a request to Hester Oduya, and nothing goes to the cook.
Platonic Life Partners	Mireille Dufresne, Omar Qureshi	Hearthhold	Its own name	public	3	Reads, through its curator. Opens under its own name. Hearthhold’s stewards make the introductions, slowly, after a call with each person. So a yes here is a request to Mireille Dufresne, and nothing goes to the person.
Intentional Co-Parents	Mireille Dufresne, Omar Qureshi	Hearthhold	Its own name	unlisted	3	Reads, only with the address, through its curator. Opens under its own name. Hearthhold’s stewards make the introductions, slowly on purpose, after meeting each person twice. So a yes here is a request to Mireille Dufresne, and nothing goes to the person.
Seen Work: Harbor Trades	Delphine Arceneaux, Rigoberto “Rigo” Paz	Seen Work	Its own name	unlisted	6	Reads, only with the address, through its curator. Opens under its own name. Seen Work’s rules: contractors never see this list; they ask a curator, who asks members one at a time and introduces only those who say yes. So a yes here is a request to Delphine Arceneaux, and nothing goes to the person.
The Orchard Street Household	Tamsin Reyes, Gabe Morrow, Anouk Visser	Many Moons	Its own name	unlisted	3	Reads, only with the address, for context only. Opens under its own name. Its charter lists the household “so the people we date can see how we are connected”. Face Up shows it for that and nothing more: no yes here, and no hello through it.
The Check-In Circle	Bet Larkin, Maggie O’Rourke	Foul Weather Friends	Never	unlisted	Not counted	Never. Foul Weather Friends asks apps not to read the Check-In Circle, and its address travels only by hand. Face Up treats that the way a browser treats a site that asks not to be read.
Midspan Students	Josefina “Fina” Arriaga, Desmond Oyelaran	Midspan	Never	invite-only	Not counted	Never. Invite-only (§3.2), served only to Midspan’s two coordinators. No app reads it.
The Heron	Inés Calloway, Clare Whitford	Scattered Light	Never	invite-only	Not counted	Never. Invite-only (§3.2): its address travels only from a steward to a newcomer, and no app reads it, even with the address.

Never read: Scattered Light’s The Heron and Midspan Students, which are invite-only, and Foul Weather Friends’ Check-In Circle, whose site asks apps not to read it. Everything else opens, including the two resting Pools, which say they are resting and hide nobody.

The face check

For dating, a person looks, then you say yes

Face Up: Cascadia, the Pool behind the Dating deck, is vouching-required §5.4. Before anyone is listed, a person on our trust desk compares a live selfie, taken in the app, with the pictures on that person’s own page.

The vouch means one thing: this face belongs to the person who said yes. It says nothing about age, character or intentions. It’s local to our Pool §4.4: another deck or another app shows your own level instead. The selfie is deleted as soon as the check is done; we keep the date and who checked. The other Pools need no face check from us, because they keep their own ways in: Drip Line’s staff watch each climber belay once, and Midspan’s coordinators meet every mentor.

Then, and only then, we ask. Nobody is listed without saying yes §5.1, and leaving is one tap §5.3.

The trust desk

Adaeze Nwosu Signed in with OAuthLeads the trust desk at Face Up. Checks every face against a live selfie before anyone is listed, then deletes the selfie. Spent ten years as a hospital registrar, so she has seen every kind of ID and every kind of excuse.Seattle
Brody Kaleikini Signed in with OAuthTrust desk at Face Up, evenings and weekends. Takes the second look when a face check is close, and answers every “why wasn’t I listed” email himself.Tacoma

Ask the desk to look again, or report a card in any deck: trust@faceup.example.

Promises

What Face Up will never do

Blur who said yes to you, or sell the reveal.
Sell a stronger yes, a boost, travel, or a way to hide.
Charge for undo, for a note, or for a filter.
Keep an order we won’t explain, or put payers first.
Score anyone’s face, or rank people by how they look.
Cap yeses without saying so.
Count streaks, or send “don’t miss out” nudges.
Charge anyone to be introduced, or to open a Pool.
Add anyone to a Pool without their yes (§5.1).
Copy your pictures (§2.5).
Make leaving hard.

Leaving

One tap, and you keep your people

Leave Face Up is one button on the You tab. There’s no survey and no second screen.

Your page stays.It was always yours. We only read it.
Your Pools stay.The gym’s, the band’s, the library’s: other apps keep reading them.
Your people’s addresses stay.Everyone you both said yes with is a Kindling identity, an email address.
Your conversations stay.They went by email §6.1, so they’re already in both inboxes.
What goes:your yeses and passes, which lived only here, and your listing in Face Up: Cascadia, removed within a minute §5.3.

The other apps