iOS · Coming soon
WishMeLuck
The anti-like-button: luck as evidenced effort, from people who actually moved for you.
Half manifest journal, half circle of real luck. Write what you want to happen — in a private book only you read, or pinned up for your people to answer with handmade luck: a drawing, a signed note, a ribbon tied to a branch.
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Waitlist · early access
Tell me when it's out.
No spam, no drip campaigns — just one email when it's your turn. You can unsubscribe in one click.
The problem
Every gesture of support online costs nothing, so none of it lands. When you're facing surgery, a visa decision or tomorrow's exam, forty heart emojis weigh less than one friend who wrote your name on paper. Social apps optimised the cost of caring down to zero — and zero-cost caring reads as zero caring.
Why now
The BeReal generation already proved people want unfiltered and small-circle. Manifest culture — pinning up the life you intend — is the fastest-growing behaviour on every platform, but it lives in apps built for broadcast, not for being answered. Nobody has built the answering half: proof that your people moved for you. And on the days nobody answers, the app still works — because the first person who has to believe your wish is you: the private Book turns writing and drawing your own intentions into a daily ritual, no audience required.
Why I'm building this
I kept noticing that the messages that actually carried me through hard days were never the reactions — they were the handwritten note in a jacket pocket, the friend who lit a candle and sent a photo. So I removed the like button entirely and made effort the only currency. The nazar bead is the mark because it already means what the app does: something small, made by hand, hung up against bad luck. Everything runs on the phone; there is no server, no feed algorithm, and nothing to collect.
— Can Ayan, founder
How it works
Pin it up
Say what you're facing — today's ask that goes cold tonight, or a standing one that stays until it happens.
Your people act
A drawing, a signed note, a deed in the world. The pile of evidence grows under your poster.
Tell them it happened
Close the ask with your voice. Everyone who spent effort on you gets the celebration.
Inside the app
The wall
Warm asks above cold, the next one always peeking in.
Evidence
Drawings, signed notes and deeds, stacked like paper.
Profile
Standing asks, the matchstick streak, luck given.
It happened
The celebration reaching everyone who acted.
What it does
Asks are posters
Full-bleed and personal: words in condensed poster type, or a photo of the thing itself — the textbooks, the car with its bonnet up, the horizon you're aiming your life at.
The effort ladder
Draw it (ten seconds, one finger). Write it (pen, paper, your name — the camera checks it's really handwriting, on device). Do it (tie a ribbon, light a candle, hang a bead — photograph what you did).
Nazar beads, not numbers
Support shows as a string of evil-eye beads, each sized by the effort behind it. No counters, no leaderboards, no like button anywhere.
The return leg
Mark an ask as happened and everyone who acted hears it from you — your words or your actual voice. Nobody gives luck into a void.
The Book
A hidden page of the app that is only yours: write the wish, draw it in with your own finger, mark it when it comes true. A visualisation ritual disguised as a diary — it never syncs, never shows, never leaves your phone.
Everything, free
v1.0 · No subscriptionThe whole app is free. No tier, no IAP, no paywall.
- ✓Unlimited asks — daily and standing
- ✓All three act rungs: draw, write, do
- ✓On-device handwriting verification
- ✓Celebrations in text or voice
- ✓Everything stored on your phone; nothing collected
Updates · last few weeks
Aug 31, 2026
feature
The Book — a diary of intentions
A hidden, private page inside the app: write what you want to happen, draw it in yourself, mark it when it arrives. Nothing in the Book syncs or shows to anyone — enforced in code and proven by test. Manifesting as a practice, not a feed.
Aug 30, 2026
release
Feature-complete, pointed at the App Store
The whole loop is built and green in test: poster asks (words or photos), the three-rung effort ladder with on-device handwriting verification, the evidence wall, celebrations in text and voice, streaks and daily prompts. v1.0 is the personal manifest wall; the friend circle ships next.
Aug 30, 2026
decision
Decision: no like button, ever
Support in Wish Me Luck is evidenced effort — a drawing, a signed note, a deed photographed in the world. If it costs nothing, it isn't in the app.
Audience & signal
Close friend groups 18–35 who already share daily life in small circles; people carrying a big pending thing — exams, visas, diagnoses, launches — and the friends who want a way to show up for them that isn't an emoji.
- ·Like-fatigue is measurable: reaction counts are hidden or de-emphasised on every major platform's roadmap.
- ·BeReal demonstrated small-circle authenticity scales to tens of millions without an algorithmic feed.
- ·Manifestation content sits in the billions of views; the nazar amulet itself is a global, instantly-read symbol of protective luck.