Private first contact

Message without sharing your phone number

Sometimes you want to be reachable, but you do not want your real number sitting in a dating app, marketplace chat, group post, event badge, or public notice. Contactable gives you a small buffer: a temporary link or three-word token where someone can message you first.

Create a private contact token

Why people avoid giving out a number too early

A phone number is not just a way to call you. It can connect to messaging apps, old listings, social accounts, delivery records, caller ID databases, and people you did not mean to stay connected with. Once it is shared, taking it back is difficult.

Contactable is for the stage before that. You can let someone send a message, judge whether the conversation feels normal, and then decide what to do next.

How Contactable handles that first step

You create a token, share the public link, QR code, or three words, and keep the owner link private. The other person can open the public token and send a first message. You can accept, decline, reply, or destroy the chat.

The useful part is the separation: the other person can contact you, but they do not automatically get your phone number, email address, WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, or permanent profile.

Dating

Use a token before moving a conversation to your phone. If the first message feels wrong, destroy the chat and move on.

Selling

Put a temporary link in a listing or message thread instead of posting your personal number for every buyer to keep.

One-off contact

Events, deliveries, lost property, local notices, freelance enquiries, and short jobs often need contact, not a permanent relationship.

A simple way to say it

"I do not give out my number straight away. Go to Contactable and enter these three words: green river calm."