Humanverse
The part a profile edits out
Bad quarters. The job that was a mistake. The week you could not get out of bed. All of it true, none of it printable on a professional profile, and all of it the thing another person actually needs to read.
Private beta, onboarding in small batches
Welcome to the Humanverse.
Everyone’s profile is a highlight reel. Humanverse is where the rest of it goes: the layoffs, the rejections, the burnout, the opinions you can’t post at work. No personal brand. No performance. Just what actually happened.
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The name
What Humanverse means.
Two halves, doing two different jobs.
Humanverse
Half of universe, and a verse
Half of the word universe, because one working life is bigger than a headline and a job title. Also a verse in the ordinary sense: your account of what happened, in your words, at the length it genuinely takes.
Humanverse
Put together: somewhere big enough to hold a whole working life, instead of the two percent of it that photographs well.
Problem vs solution
Same career. Two very different versions.
One of these gets you a polite comment from a recruiter. The other gets you forty people who've been exactly where you are.
The problem
Everywhere else
- “Thrilled to announce I'm starting a new chapter…”
- “Humbled to share that I've been named a Top Voice.”
- “Grateful for the incredible journey. Onwards and upwards!”
- “So inspired by my brilliant team. Big things coming. 🚀”
A feed of press releases about people. Useful for recruiters, useless for anyone actually having a hard year.
The solution
On Humanverse
- “I got let go in March. It took seven months and 94 applications.”
- “I've been faking confidence in every meeting for two years.”
- “We shut the company down. Here's exactly where the money went.”
- “I have no idea what I'm doing and I'm the most senior person here.”
The same four events, told the way they were actually lived. That version helps somebody.
Why Humanverse
Three things we took out, on purpose.
Most social products are a pile of features. This one is mostly a list of decisions not to build things.
Nobody is grading this.
No performance
There is no audience to impress, because there is no metric that says whether you impressed them. Take the mask off and nothing happens. That's the feature.
You are not a content strategy.
No personal brand
A person is allowed to be inconsistent, unresolved and mid-sentence about their own life. Humanverse has no incentive to make you into a coherent product.
The hard version, first.
No pretending
The story with the bad months left in is more useful to everyone reading it than the version that skips to the good ending. So that's the one we ask for.
Features
Built for the parts nobody posts.
Every one of these exists because the polished version of the internet has no room for it.
Failure threads
Post the rejection, the layoff, the launch that flopped. Threads collect everyone who has been through the same thing, so the worst week of your career comes with company.
#RejectedAgain · 2,410 stories this month
No vanity metrics
No follower counts. No impressions. No 'top voice' badges. There is nothing on Humanverse to optimise, so there is nothing to perform for.
Anonymous mode
Some truths cost you your job. Post under a persistent pseudonym that keeps your history intact without attaching your legal name.
Reactions that mean something
Not 'like'. Not 'celebrate'. Been there. Oof. Respect. I needed this. Reactions built for the things people are actually posting.
Small circles
Share with twelve people who get it instead of twelve thousand who don't. Circles are private by default and never surface in search.
Unfiltered opinions
Say the thing your industry pretends not to think. Opinion posts are separated from stories, so debate never buries someone's hard week.
No engagement bait. No reach penalty. No algorithm to game.
How it works
Three steps. None of them involve a headline.
No profile to optimise, no summary to write in the third person. You start by saying one true thing.
- Step 01
Say the real thing
Open the composer and write what actually happened: the layoff, the rejection, the week you couldn't get out of bed. Public, circle-only, or anonymous. You decide per post.
- Step 02
Find the people in it with you
Your post joins a thread of everyone going through the same thing. No algorithm decides who deserves reach. The moment you're in is what connects you.
- Step 03
Come back different
The thread outlives the bad week. Six months on you'll answer someone at the start of theirs, which is the entire reason this exists.
Inside the app
No headline. No connections count. No 'open to work' frame.
A composer, a thread, and reactions that mean something. That is the entire product surface.
humanverse.fun
HumanverseYour thread
What actually happened?
Six months ago I told everyone the pivot was working
PublicCircleAnonymous
Priya R.
Product designer · 2h
#LaidOff
Ninety-four applications. Seven months. I stopped counting the rejections around forty because it was making me worse, not better. Signed an offer this morning for less money than I made in 2022 and I am genuinely, unironically fine with that.
been there · respect 62063 comments
Anonymous
Senior engineer · 5h
#BurnedOut
I had a panic attack in the car park before a board meeting and then went in and presented the roadmap. Nobody noticed. That's the part I can't stop thinking about. Nobody noticed.
been there · I needed this 1444187 comments
Marcus B.
Former founder · 1d
#FoundedAndFailed
Full post-mortem, real numbers. We raised $2.1M, burned $1.87M, and the thing that killed us wasn't the market. It was that I refused to fire a friend for eleven months.
oof · respect 1401244 comments
HumanverseYour thread
What actually happened?
Six months ago I told everyone the pivot was working
PublicCircleAnonymous
Priya R.
Product designer · 2h
#LaidOff
Ninety-four applications. Seven months. I stopped counting the rejections around forty because it was making me worse, not better. Signed an offer this morning for less money than I made in 2022 and I am genuinely, unironically fine with that.
been there · respect 62063 comments
Anonymous
Senior engineer · 5h
#BurnedOut
I had a panic attack in the car park before a board meeting and then went in and presented the roadmap. Nobody noticed. That's the part I can't stop thinking about. Nobody noticed.
been there · I needed this 1444187 comments
Community
Find the room where people are in it with you.
Threads are organised around moments in a working life, not job titles or industries. You land next to people at the same point, not people theorising about it.
- 24.8K
#RejectedAgain
The rejection emails, collected.
- 19.2K
#LaidOff
Day one to day ninety.
- 17.9K
#BurnedOut
Before it got bad, and after.
- 12.5K
#FoundedAndFailed
Post-mortems, written honestly.
- 11.3K
#ImposterSyndrome
Still waiting to be found out.
- 9.9K
#CareerPivot
Starting over at 34. Or 51.
- 8.1K
#QuietQuit
Where the line actually is.
- 7.5K
#FirstJob
Nobody warned me about this part.
- 6.9K
#Therapy
What work did to your head.
- 6.2K
#MoneyTalk
Real numbers, no coyness.
- 4.5K
#Grief
Loss doesn't pause for standup.
- 4.1K
#SmallWins
The ones nobody clapped for.
Numbers reflect the private beta. New threads open when enough people need one.
From the beta
What people say when nobody's optimising for reach.
Placeholder copy while the beta runs. Real quotes go in before launch.
“I wrote about getting cut in the second round of layoffs. Forty people replied who'd been through the same week. My LinkedIn post about it got eleven likes and a recruiter DM.”
Priya Raghavan
Product designer · #LaidOff
“Two years of pretending the startup was fine. I posted the actual numbers here the day we shut down. It was the first honest thing I'd written in public since 2019.”
Marcus Bell
Former founder · #FoundedAndFailed
“Anonymous mode is the whole product for me. I can say what my industry is actually like without it following me into my next interview.”
Anonymous
Senior engineer, fintech
“No follower count means I stopped checking whether anything landed. I just write it and close the app. I didn't realise how much of the other thing was compulsion.”
Dae-jung Park
Data scientist
“I got my first job at 41 after a career change. Nobody on LinkedIn wanted the version where it took nineteen months and I nearly gave up twice. Here that's the normal version.”
Fiona Adeyemi
Career changer · #CareerPivot
“The reactions are the thing. Somebody hit 'been there' on my post about a panic attack before a board meeting and I genuinely teared up at my desk.”
Tom Vasquez
VP Operations · #BurnedOut
FAQ
The questions everyone actually asks.
Mostly variations of ‘is this going to cost me my job?’, which is rather the point.
Still unsure? Email a real person.
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