6Clique: meaningful social media app icon

I Left a Note on a Bulletin Board

In 2023, I taped up a handwritten note on a bulletin board by a café. It said: “I’m lonely, and it’s suffocating. Help me.”

I put my contact information at the bottom, tore off little slips like people do with guitar lessons or roommate ads, and left.

No one ever reached out. A week later, my note was taken down.

On paper, loneliness wasn’t supposed to be my story.

I had friends I saw every week. Good friends — loyal, empathetic, kind, and loving. I wasn’t isolated, and I wasn’t unloved.

And before anyone assumes — no, it wasn’t about romance either. I wasn’t invisible. I was in my early twenties, living in the city. On dating apps, I had plenty of matches. If anything, I had too many surface‑level conversations.

But the truth is this: despite being surrounded by people, even people who genuinely loved me, I was drowning in loneliness.

What I needed wasn’t more small talk. Not more daily recaps of “work was fine” or “traffic was bad.” Not more swipes, emojis, or half‑hearted “wyd?” texts. Not even the juicy gossip on neighbors or celebrities.

I needed a place where someone would actually ask me the questions that mattered:

But no one asked.

And so I slipped deeper into a cycle of silence — showing up with a smile, playing the role I thought I was meant to play, laughing at the right moments, nodding at the right stories. But I was too scared to be myself. I was doing everything I could to enhance my likeability, not my authenticity.

At night, lying in bed, staring at the ceiling, my life felt so hollow I wanted to crawl out of my own skin.

I made 6Clique for the modern loneliness epidemic.

It wasn’t an abstract startup idea. It was a lifeline I built for myself — the kind of place I desperately needed but couldn’t find.

6Clique is designed to create the conversations that never seem to happen on their own. It gives you 365 questions, one for each day of the year. Each one of them came from my own sleepless, lonely nights — the questions I once wished someone would ask me.

Instead of throwing you into an endless feed of strangers, it carefully places you in a small group of six people with a similar emotional alignment. Every night, each group's reflections to the questions are posted into the chat – but with no names attached. Between the questions, you have the chance to reflect together and support one another for all our fears, dreams, shame, and joy. For six days, you have the chance to peel back the mask, drop the act, and experience what happens when we dare to go deeper. For some of us, it can be deeper than we ever have experienced before.

I don’t believe in shallow people. I believe all of us fundamentally crave depth. That's what it means to be human. Loneliness doesn’t come from lack of people — it comes from lack of connection. The right environment can change everything.

6Clique is that environment, where every person matters equally. It brews the perfect conditions for authenticity — not with pressure, but with structure. Not with algorithms for likes and followers, but with space for presence. It maintains our human dignity without forming hierarchy.

I don’t know who will find this or how far it will go.

But I do know this: No one should ever have to tape a note to a café wall begging for connection, only to be met with silence. 6Clique exists so none of us have to.