Geo-social network — photos and videos tied to real-world locations
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At a glance
The facts, fast.
February 2026
Mohamed Fouad Ahmed Helmy
Cairo, Egypt
SynaVora FZ-LLC, registered in the UAE
Free for everyone. No ads, no data sale. Paid features: Verified accounts, Business Accounts.
Web, Android (direct APK + Google Play Test Track), iOS (TestFlight beta)
Not indexed by search engines. No third-party trackers. One session cookie total.
In two paragraphs
What it is, what it isn't.
LifeLayers is a social network built around real-world places. Instead of an algorithmic feed of strangers' opinions, every post — called a layer — lives at the GPS location where it was created. A photo from a café belongs to that café; a video from a hike belongs to that trailhead. Open the map and you can wander through what people have left at the places you visit, the way you'd flip through postcards if everyone wrote one.
The product takes its cues from privacy-respecting infrastructure tools rather than mainstream social platforms: no ads, no algorithmic feeds, no third-party tracking, no search-engine indexing. The site is operated by a small independent team in Cairo and Dubai. It's free now and will stay free for everything available today; the planned paid offerings (a Verified identity tier and Sponsored Layers for venues) are designed to be additive rather than gating.
Founder
A real person, on the record.
Mohamed Fouad Ahmed Helmy
Founder & Lead Engineer · Cairo, Egypt
Egyptian engineer with about a decade in networking, VPN architecture, and privacy-respecting infrastructure. Built LifeLayers as a response to the gradual erosion of trust between social platforms and the people who use them — a place where every line of code, every server config, and every decision about what to do with user data has his name attached to it.
Available for interviews on the record about the product, the privacy stance, geo-social as a category, or the realities of running a small independent platform from outside Silicon Valley.
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Brand assets
Logos, color, and screenshots.
Below are the headline assets. For higher-resolution variants, vector formats, app screenshots, or a packaged ZIP, email the press address and we'll send what you need within a business day.
LifeLayers logo
Primary mark, raster. SVG and dark-background variants available on request.
#0D9488
Brand color
Primary teal, used across the site, the app, and marketing materials.
HEX #0D9488
RGB 13·148·136
Need something specific? App screenshots (Android, iOS, web), wordmark variants, an open-graph image, social-share cards — email [email protected] and tell us what format you need.
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