TRYST
Private chemistry. Intelligent discretion. — Discretion is the product.
TRYST is a discretion-first connection platform for attached adults, solo adults open to couples, and couples: one-off and ongoing connections, threesomes and couple-to-couple, for all genders and orientations.
Current specification — v1.3 baseline
Start at docs/spec/00_README.md.
| Document | For |
|---|
| 01 Product | Leadership, product, investors, counsel |
| 02 Shared Contracts | Backend and frontend — data model, API, enums, schemas, FR/NFR catalogue |
| 03 Backend | Backend, ML, security, SRE, T&S engineering |
| 04 Frontend | iOS, Android, web, design |
| 05 Terms of Service — draft 0.9.5 | Counsel (not for publication) |
| 06 Decisions, errata, change log | Product owner, tech leads |
| 07 Source B — founder brief (verbatim) | Everyone — the founder's specification word for word, with traceability |
| 08 Source A — traceability | Everyone — where each section of the consolidated Spec + ToS lives in the spec and code |
| 09 Operating System (internal) | Everyone — agent workforce and governance, command centres, self-managing layer, BitriPay door, connectors, ops/partner APIs, B2B licensing |
| Combined PDF | Reading and sharing |
Consistency check (runs in CI): python3 scripts/check_spec.py
Repository layout
Three parts, each built, tested and deployed on its own. They meet only through shared/.
| Path | What | Deploys as | CI |
|---|
frontend/ | Next.js web app (member site; the staff console is the same code built with OPS_CONSOLE=1). Talks to the backend only over HTTP (/v1/* proxied to IDENTITY_URL / SAFETY_URL) | Container on the Google Cloud VM (frontend/Dockerfile); not Vercel (D-66) | frontend.yml |
backend/ | Go services: identity-svc (the member API) and safety-svc (Trust & Safety), one image, two entrypoints; PostgreSQL | Containers on the Google Cloud VM (backend/Dockerfile) | backend.yml |
shared/ | The contract between them: OpenAPI and Protobuf contracts, controlled vocabularies, test vectors both sides must pass, brand assets | Nothing to deploy | shared.yml |
site/ | The public website and journal: one post per feature, selling each honestly, with editorial rules enforced by tests. Static, no cookies, no member data, indexable | Vercel | site.yml |
agents/, crypto-core/, mobile/ | Later phases, not deployed at launch: Python agent services (P2), Rust media crypto for the native apps, native app requirements | — | backend.yml |
deploy/ | Google Cloud set-up (gcp/: Terraform, setup.sh, the VM's Compose file and units), the Hostinger uptime check, Prometheus rules | — | integration.yml, |
integration.yml runs the browser end-to-end tests against both parts together and scans the images. Run everything locally with make check; go-live: docs/runbooks/go-live.md.
Sources and history
docs/source/ — founder source documents (consolidated Spec + ToS, 4 Oct 2026; Developer Specification, 17 Sep 2026)shared/brand/ — logo (exactly as supplied) and colour tokensdocs/archive/ — superseded drafts (PRD v0.1 and the v1.0-vs-v0.1 reconciliation)
