goodwaves.news · Launching 2026

The world's first
positive-only
news network.

No doom. No outrage. Only waves of good news shared by real people — powered by joy, driven by community.

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68%of adults stressed by news
73%actively avoid the news
$231Bsocial media market
4.9Bsocial media users

The news is making us sick.

Every scroll, every headline, every notification — the news ecosystem is engineered to maximise outrage, fear and anxiety. This isn't a bug. It's the business model. We built the antidote.

68%
News causes stressof adults say the news makes them feel stressed and anxious regularly.
73%
News avoidance risingreport deliberately avoiding the news — a behaviour accelerating globally.
90%
Stories are negativeof news stories carry negative framing. Bad news sells. Good news doesn't. Yet.

A social network
built entirely on joy.

GoodWaves is a platform where only positive news is allowed. Every post passes our AI-powered positivity filter. No negativity. No outrage. Period.

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Positive Only

Every post passes our AI-powered positivity filter — a fine-tuned transformer trained on 5M+ labelled posts. Understands irony, sarcasm and emotional subtext.

Gamified Joy

Earn Wave Energy, collect badges, climb 7 Tide Levels from Ripple to Sunshine Legend. Spreading good news has never been this rewarding — or this addictive.

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Local & Global

Filter by neighbourhood, city, country or the whole world. Good news from everywhere — starting in your street and rippling out to the planet.

Three steps to spreading good vibes.

From discovering local good news to sharing it globally — GoodWaves makes positivity effortless, rewarding, and genuinely addictive.

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Discover

Browse your local feed, explore the wave map, or search by category — Nature, Kindness, Animals, Science and more. Good news flows to you automatically.

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Share a Wave

Post a good story in 3 simple steps. Our positivity filter reviews every post in under 200ms. Only joy gets through — then earn Wave Energy for every share.

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Earn & Rise

Every action earns Wave Energy ⚡. Collect badges, climb 7 Tide Levels from Ripple to Sunshine Legend ✨. Share to Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp — and earn more.

15 fully interactive screens.
Built and live.

Every screen from the GoodWaves MVP prototype — fully wired, every flow connected. Launching Q2 2026 on iOS and Android.

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María L. 🏄 · Murcia
Baker Pilar gets standing ovation after 3 years of secret kindness
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Carlos R. · Nearby
Murcia runs all 340 buses on solar — first in Spain
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Blue whale off Costa Brava — first in 40 years
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Jorge R. 🌊 · Swell
City plants 50,000 trees along new green corridor
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Local hospital creates free therapy garden for families
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Miguel S. · Swell
University spin-out cures rare disease with gene therapy
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World Feed
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Amara K. · Wave Guardian
African lion population rebounds 20% — biggest gain in decades
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Yuki T. · Sunshine Legend ✨
Scientists confirm cheap fusion power is now viable
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Priya M. · Tsunami Maker
Ocean plastic now powering 1 million homes globally
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← Back  ·  Kindness · Murcia
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Baker Pilar gets standing ovation after 3 years of secret kindness
Every morning at 4am for three years, Pilar Martínez quietly placed two bags of fresh bread outside her bakery. No sign, no explanation — just bread for whoever needed it. Yesterday, 200 neighbours arrived before she opened, holding sunflowers. When she unlocked the door she burst into tears.
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Murcia becomes Spain's first city to run all 340 buses entirely on solar energy
As of this morning, every one of Murcia's 340 city buses runs from electricity generated by 12,000 solar panels across three city depots. The €28m project saves 8,000 tonnes of CO₂ annually. Bus fares cut by 20% — a direct benefit to 180,000 daily passengers.
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Step 1 · Write
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Step 1 of 3 · Write your story
What's the good news? *
Share something that made you smile. A small moment or big story — all joy counts here...
⚡ Posting earns +50 WE — bonus when waved!
📷 Add photo  ·  🔗 Add link
✓ Positivity filter — only good news gets through
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People near Murcia see it first — then the world.
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Tide Levels7 levels
Your WE: 2,840 · Level 4 · 1,160 to next
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or €39.99/yr · Save 33%
2× Wave Energy on all actions
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Beautiful.
Addictively good.

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Wave Feed

Location-based positive news with Near Me / City / Country / World scope filters. Auto-expands when local content runs low — always full, always fresh.

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Wave Map

Live map showing good news pins near you. Tap any pin to read the full story. Watch positivity spread across your city in real time.

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Share Cards

One-tap branded cards for Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X and WhatsApp. Each share earns Wave Energy — every share is a GoodWaves ad with zero CAC.

Wave Energy

Gamified reward system — earn WE for every positive action. 7 Tide Levels to climb. Leaderboards, badges and social status create the same loops as Duolingo and Strava.

The more good you share, the more you grow.

Every action earns Wave Energy. Built to be genuinely addictive — streak bonuses, weekly challenges, and social leaderboards create powerful return loops.

Post a story+50 WE ⚡
Wave (like) a post+5 WE ⚡
Share to social media+50 WE / platform ⚡
Invite a friend who joins+250 WE ⚡
14-day daily streak+500 WE ⚡
💧Ripple
0–200 WE
🌀Current
201–600 WE
🌊Swell
601–1,400 WE
🏄Tide Rider
1,401–4,000 WE
🌊Tsunami Maker
4,001–10,000 WE
🌍Wave Guardian
10,001–25,000 WE
Sunshine Legend
25,000+ WE

The world is
ready for good news.

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Social Media Trust Collapse

Public trust in social media is at an all-time low. Users are leaving toxic platforms in record numbers. They need somewhere positive to go — and nothing like GoodWaves exists yet.

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Regulatory Tailwinds

Governments worldwide are passing online safety laws that penalise negative content. Platforms built around positivity are ahead of the regulatory curve — and the EU AI Act too.

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Mental Health Moment

Post-pandemic mental health awareness is at a peak. Users are actively seeking products that improve their wellbeing. GoodWaves is the first social platform explicitly built to do that.

Gamification Is Mainstream

Duolingo proved gamification drives daily engagement in an unexpected category. We apply the same proven psychological principles to positive news — creating genuine habit loops.

Conservative 3-year model.

Metric2026 — Launch2027 — Scale2028 — Global
Monthly Active Users3M15M30M
Plus Subscribers90K (3%)600K (4%)1.5M (5%)
GoodWaves Plus Revenue€3.6M€25.2M€66M
Business Spotlights€400K€2M€5M
API / White-label€1.5M€4M
Total Revenue€4M€28.7M€75M
Year 1 · 2026
€4M
ARR at launch
Year 2 · 2027
€28.7M
7× growth
Year 3 · 2028
€75M
2.6× growth

Built by people who believe good news changes the world.

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CEO & Co-Founder
Katarzyna Beata Milek
Denmark-based Cand.jur from Poland with multi-level experience in immigration rights and public affairs. Brings deep legal expertise, international stakeholder strategy and a strong cross-border network to GoodWaves.
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CTO & Co-Founder
Orvar Geir Fridriksson
Multi-level computer vision scientist, AI Agentic Researcher and Analyst. Serial entrepreneur across 10+ companies spanning the USA, Iceland, Germany, Italy and Spain. Over a decade of software innovation in deep tech and AI.

We are raising
€1.5M

To build the product, launch across Europe, and prove that the world will choose joy over outrage — when they're given the option.

🛠 Product & Engineering50%
📣 Growth & Marketing25%
⚖️ Operations & Compliance15%
🤝 Partnerships & Biz Dev10%

The wave is
building.

Be part of the first community that chose good news — and helped the rest of the world do the same.