Copenhagen, Denmark
Separation is one of the most isolating transitions a person can go through. Dating apps don't help — they're built to maximize engagement, not connection. Generic support groups are noisy. Therapy is expensive and siloed.
Hygg is none of those things. It's an intentional community for people who are ready — really ready — to build something new.
Dating apps optimize for swipe. Support groups optimize for venting. Hygg optimizes for one thing: quality of connection that leads to real-world encounters.
The science is clear (Bowlby, Siegel, WHO, APA): secure attachment and emotional regulation come before healthy relationships. We built the platform around that order — not the other way around.
"We don't want you to stay on Hygg forever. We want you to find what you're looking for and move forward — with better relationships, a stronger sense of self, and real people beside you."
A structured questionnaire analyzes your emotional state, where you are in the separation process, and your real availability — not just your calendar. We filter out people who aren't ready. That's a feature, not a bug.
Instead of swiping on photos, you play matching games: Life Rhythm, Values & Parenting, Culture & Taste. These reveal compatibility far better than a highlight reel ever could. No pay-to-win. No algorithmic manipulation.
Hygg organizes in-person events with an explicit goal: real connection, not content consumption. Think dinners, group outings, co-parenting support meetups. We track the outcome — did people actually connect? — not just attendance.
Daily micro-content from evidence-based psychology (not motivational quotes). AI-personalized to where you are in your process. Normalizing, not cheerleading. Delivered in small doses that fit a parent's life.
Three matching games. Zero photos.
How do you actually live? When do you wake up, how do you structure your week, what does your ideal evening look like? Compatibility in daily life is the hardest to fake — and the most important.
How do you co-parent? What's non-negotiable and what's flexible? How do you handle conflict? This isn't a test — it's a mirror. You see yourself more clearly, and so do the people you're matched with.
Music, food, how you spend a Sunday. The stuff that doesn't matter until it does. Shared taste is a predictor of long-term compatibility that no algorithm can fake from a profile picture.
Every feature on Hygg points toward one outcome: real-world encounters. Not "DMs that go nowhere." Not "events with 50 people and no real conversations." Events with a purpose, sized appropriately, designed for connection.
Copenhagen's social infrastructure is ideal for this — hygge culture, compact city, high trust. We work with local partners to design events that actually work for separated parents: timing around custody schedules, locations that feel safe, group sizes that make conversation possible.
6–10 people. Matched by Ritmo profile. Facilitated conversation, not speed dating.
Custody-window friendly. Coffee walks, park gatherings, activity-based.
Practical peer support. Facilitated by someone who's been there.
Hygg is for people who are past the crisis and into the rebuild. Who want connection — real connection — without the algorithmic manipulation and empty swipe culture of existing platforms. Who understand that healthy relationships start with knowing yourself.
Built in Copenhagen. For everyone navigating what's next.