Detailed walkthrough
Four simple steps
that work right away.
Nobody enjoys a tutorial. We show how NexKyn works in practice — so you can meaningfully contribute to your first network in a few minutes.
In short: how do you find a trusted service through your network?
On NexKyn you search your own circle first. You join a network of family, friends, colleagues or your community, and see which services the members have actually used and recommended. Every recommendation comes from a real person who was vouched for by another member, so you know who stands behind it. Only when no one in your network has a match do you turn to the open internet.
What you’ve always done
You already do this, just without an app.
NexKyn is a continuation of how people have always found a good plumber, hairdresser, or babysitter. We make it repeatable and searchable. The behaviour itself is centuries old.
- ‘Who do you know who does X?’ in the family WhatsApp group at 9 PM.
- A scribbled note on the fridge with a phone number from a colleague.
- A neighbourhood newsletter listing who cuts whose grass.
- The school-gate conversation that ends in ‘I’ll send you his number’.
Join a network
You receive an invitation by email, SMS, or QR code from someone you know. The link takes you to a page introducing the network: who’s inviting you, what kind of network (family, friends, business, community), and an optional personal message.
Click "Accept invitation", sign in with Google or Microsoft, and you’re in. Admins of closed networks approve you first — that usually happens within minutes.
Share what you do and who you know
Add your own service in a 4-step wizard: pick a sector, fill in name + short description, select which networks to share it with, and review. Done. The same service can appear in multiple networks or just one.
Know someone who doesn’t use NexKyn but does excellent work? You can add their service with their phone number. They get an SMS asking whether they want to claim and take it over — nothing happens without their consent.
Search, find, and step out to the open internet only on purpose
Search starts inside your networks. Type "dentist Amsterdam" and NexKyn searches across every network you’re a member of, not the open internet. Side filters let you narrow further by network or sector.
Found nothing in your circle? NexKyn lets you take the deliberate step to DuckDuckGo or Google — under the results, not in their place. You decide whether to leave your trusted circle.
Share your experience
After a visit you write a short experience: three half-star scores (quality, reliability, value for money), a title, and a description. You can optionally leave a private note that only the provider sees — useful for criticism that doesn’t need to be public.
Reviews show up in your network with your name; other networks see them anonymously labelled "Someone in [introducer]’s network". You keep the trust inside your circle, but slowly grow a quality signal for the rest.
For QR-code fans
Invite in person via QR
At a family birthday, a company drinks event, or a neighbourhood gathering? Let your guests scan. One code, one PIN, and they’re in — no email required.
- Works offline: the guest doesn’t need to type anything
- Single-use: each code is per person
- Auto-expires: no stale codes floating around
- Works in iOS Camera and Google Lens
Save, recommend, share
The memory loop, in three taps.
Most great recommendations are lost the moment you need them: a name from a chat months ago, a number on a piece of paper. NexKyn turns each of those moments into a saved entry you (or your sister) can pull up in seconds.
Save
Bookmark anyone you’re happy with. The save is private. Only you see your saved-services list.
Recommend
Vouch for someone with one tap, and others in the same network see that you stand behind them. No review form.
Share
When someone in your network asks ‘do you know someone who does X?’, one tap forwards the saved service to them. They can save it too.
What NexKyn isn’t
Some clarifications.
Easier to explain by what it isn’t.
Not a marketplace.
There are no auctions, no paid rankings, no per-click charges. We don’t sit between you and the work.
Not a review site for strangers.
Reviews come from people in your network. If you don’t share a network with the reviewer, you don’t see their review.
Not a social network.
There is no feed, no likes, no profile photo competition. The product is finding services, not browsing people.
Not a public phone book.
Family networks are private and not searchable from outside. Even on public networks, only what the member chose to publish is visible.
Privacy first
What do others see about you?
Only people who share at least one network with you. You can decide per network whether you appear on your public profile — without leaving the network. Your phone number, email, and address are visible only to you, and you only share them when you explicitly put them on your profile.