Swiss start-up launches a tool for anonymous first contacts

ZWOOKY allows anonymity. It’s an X-digit code to contact someone via the internet without knowing their data or having to disclose one's own. The ZWOOKY code replaces the e-mail address and therefore becomes the user's personal ID. The code can be used for any natural or legal entity.

The code can also be used to label objects. Lost photo equipment, suitcases, jewellery, telephones and other objects can be returned to their owners in this way without finders having to know the owner's contact data, or having to provide their own data. If one finds a lost object, one contacts the owner via ZWOOKY. 

It works the same way for people. Strangers who get to know each other e.g. on holidays, at a bar, on the plane or accidentally can contact each other via ZWOOKY without immediately having to exchange e-mail addresses or telephone numbers. By making initial contact using ZWOOKY, strangers can become friends, partners, customers or just acquaintances. The users themselves decide whether and if yes, which data they want to exchange after their initial contact.

Since the users contact each other solely via the code, there is no need to make one's personal contact data accessible to others. Users remain completely anonymous as long as they want to. At every contact, the user receives an e-mail to the account with which they logged in. 

ZWOOKY emphasizes that it is not a social platform and does not want to replace such platforms. ZWOOKY allows users to initiate their first virtual contact. Then they can virtually or directly remain in contact as they wish. 

The code itself is free and includes four free messages. Additional messages are subject to a fee.