Fictional neighborhoods. Real conversations.

A little world.Made together.

Build a fictional neighborhood. Meet through voice, shape shared places, and make plans with the people next door.

Explore Dwell

Somewhere to belong.
Something to build.

A café, a record shop, an empty space with possibilities. Your neighborhood begins with the places you make your own.

Dwell's fictional café scene: a leafy brick corner with a green awning and tables outside.
The café, one of Dwell’s starter places.

Find your kind of neighborhood.

Browse shared streets, join one that feels right, or create your own. You can belong to more than one neighborhood.

Give a place a purpose.

Claim a place to look after. Share ideas for its next chapter and help shape the street around it.

The places are fictional.
The ideas you bring are yours.

Life on your street

Good places begin with a conversation.

Come for a chat. Stay to see what you can make together.

Talk it through.

Listen in, join the neighborhood voice conversation, or add a thought in the room’s text chat.

Put it to a vote.

Turn an idea for a shared place into a proposal. Eligible neighbors vote on what happens next.

Make a plan.

Place caretakers can host activities. Mark your interest, set an optional reminder, and meet in the neighborhood voice room.

Keep in touch.

Send text, photos or voice messages, and catch up through one-to-one voice and video calls.

A small gesture.
A warm welcome.

Use Porch Coins to send virtual gifts in conversations and neighborhood rooms. A little way to welcome someone or celebrate a shared moment.

Porch Coins and gifts are virtual items with no cash value.

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