About Us

Rorshok started in March 2021 as an experiment in international community building. It is a purpose and mission-driven international startup pursuing new ways to help people create real-time and quality connections, with where they live and with each other.

The organization aims to help people and communities build knowledge in a world that has become increasingly filled with excessive information, scrolling, meaningless online interactions, and passive siloed content consumption. 

Social media platforms can be sources of codependency and anxiety, they keep us scrolling for hours and staring at the screen waiting for likes. Our thoughts and lives are constantly interrupted by notifications, but we still hope for more of those micro-validators.  

In Rorshok, we want to make sure that the time you spend online is shorter, more direct, useful, and enriching. We are not against technological advances, they are a part of our lives now. In fact, we think they may provide us with very useful tools of communication and connection, but we need to find a way to use them to help ourselves and mitigate their negative aspects. We work on all of our projects with that in mind.

There are lots of people telling us that staring at our pocket distraction rectangles is bad and that the algorithms of big tech monopolies divide us and pit us against each other. All true. So what can we do about that? We think that technology, when it is not profit driven, can enrich and improve already existing communities and can help start and build new ones. In a strange way, technology can help us out of technology dependence, can improve the information we get, and can even be used to improve our interactions with real people in physical space.

We believe that if a company’s only purpose is to make money; then something is wrong. Many businesses only care about profit, they don’t care if their products or services make the world a better place or if they improve people’s lives. The bigger businesses get, the more this is true.

Rorshok wants to do cool, useful, interesting things, and bring in enough money to allow us to keep doing them. We also want to innovate and do new cool, useful stuff together with people that believe in and share this mission.