“A person who flatters himself that he shall not be thought disagreeable… in search of a young lady, between the age of eighteen and twenty-three, of a middling stature, brown hair, of good morals…”
— Boston Evening-Post, 1759
Missed connections are the moments you almost spoke, and didn’t — the stranger on the train, in the café, across the ferry. Record a voice notice to whoever crossed your path, set it in type, and let the city read it aloud until they recognise themselves.
Some things are better said out loud. Press the stage, tell us who you’re looking for — then it’s yours to keep or to share. The reply waits in the app.
Post a notice and it lights up here, at the place it happened. Spin the globe, find your city, and hear who’s looking. (Showing example notices — real voices light up once posting opens.)
Real lonely-hearts and matrimonial notices, printed in newspapers long before us. People have been writing into the void, hopefully, for nearly three hundred years.
“A person who flatters himself that he shall not be thought disagreeable… in search of a young lady, between the age of eighteen and twenty-three, of a middling stature, brown hair, of good morals…”
“HUSBAND WANTED — A young lady about 21 years of age, of pleasing manners and accomplished, is anxious to change her condition, and would like to have a husband sometime before the 1st of January next.”
“The world is so full of poetry, beauty, and glory, and I have no one to share it with me… I seek, therefore, my other and better half, my complement and peer.”
“Spinster, middle-aged, lady-like and very affectionate with ample private income. Feeling lonely, wishes to correspond with high principled Christian gentleman… with a view to marriage.”
Reproduced from the public record · the originals are long out of copyright
A few souls who wrote into the void — and heard a voice answer back.
A woman noticed a man asleep on a Philadelphia train, tongue out, and posted a notice on a whim. They found each other — and were together six years.
— As told to NPR ↗A man kicked himself for not asking out a stranger at a bus stop. A week later, the stranger’s boss recognised the hat in the notice and forwarded it. The two are now married.
— HuffPost ↗Two people fell for each other in 1984, married other people, and went their separate ways — then reconnected twenty-three years later, and eloped.
— CNN ↗Tap the stage to go On Air and record a short voice notice — up to a minute. Say where you were, what passed between you, and what you wish you’d said. Add your first name, then keep it or share it. No form, no login — your voice does the talking, and the reply waits safely in the app.
Sometimes, beautifully. People have reunited from a notice about a sleepy stranger on a train, a hat spotted at a bus stop, even a love rekindled twenty-three years later. It’s never a promise — but a specific, heartfelt notice a friend might recognise and pass along gives the almost a real second chance.
Yes — recording and sharing yours here is completely free, with no account and nothing to sign up for. Found, the app, is simply where a reply can safely reach you, because the person you crossed paths with may already be nearby.
Of course — this is built Sydney-first. Name the real detail: the T1 to Bondi Junction, the Manly ferry, a café in Surry Hills, the queue at Central. The more specific the place, the more likely they — or someone who knows them — recognise the moment. Melbourne, Brisbane and the rest of the world are welcome too.
Notices are how it begins. Found is where the voice answers — the person you crossed paths with may already be nearby.
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