What's inside
College applications with no parental roadmap. Explaining American systems to your parents. A career choice that lands badly at dinner. This is what's inside for those moments.
Eight features, one purpose
Depth that doesn't exist anywhere else
Not just where you're from. Which generation you are, which languages you speak at home versus outside, which holidays you keep, how traditional or westernised the household was.
A quick onboarding quiz that gets you
A short set of questions that places you between your parents' culture and the one you grew up in — and finds the people whose experience matches your own.
Small rooms, shared context
Join by culture, city or life stage. Everyone already understands the setup, so conversations start in the middle instead of at the beginning.
Say the thing
Post what you have never had the right audience for, and read it back a hundred ways from people who lived it too.
Keep the language
Practise the heritage language you are losing, or never fully learned, with people in the community. Native to FirstGen, not a separate app bolted on.
Recipes tied to a story
Not a food app. A place where a dish, a holiday or a ritual arrives with the family it came from attached.
Post in either language
Write in your heritage language and be understood across the community. Built into the experience rather than pasted in from elsewhere.
Find your people nearby
From big-city diaspora hubs to the town where you were the only one.
Kept true by design
Every feature above assumes one thing: the people in the room share the first-gen starting point. That's why verification exists, why circles are small, and why the translation layer treats your heritage language as a first-class citizen instead of an afterthought.
A simple verification confirms that your parents actually immigrated. It takes a moment at sign-up and exists for one reason: so FirstGen stays true to its purpose.
Everyone in the room got here the same way you did.
Where it all leads
Food & tradition
Where you come from
Community supportEvery feature above ships with launch in 2026. The waitlist gets in before anyone else.
Join the waitlist