W E L C O M E   T O   J O Y C U T
If you can afford extra,
live like it.

A new norm for people who live well.

The second home. The long weekends. The decisions that used to feel like luxuries and now just feel like Tuesday.

That's not an accident. It's the result of a lot of work, a lot of choices, a lot of years.

What if that life could quietly do a little more?

T H E   W O R L D   A S   I T   I S
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how far a great day in one zip code typically travels into another.

Not because people don't care.

Just because no one built the rail.

JoyCut builds the rail.

On one side

People spend freely on things that are purely extra — second homes, ski weeks, boats, great dinners, upgrades they don't think twice about.

On the other — often the same city

People can't make rent, are living in shelters, and managing bills they may never catch up on. The gap isn't cruelty. Joy days and hard days just live in separate worlds.

T H E   I D E A

Every time you do something extra — the long weekend at the house, the dinner that didn't need a menu, the upgrade you didn't think twice about —

you open JoyCut and send a small cut to someone on the other side of that day.

No lifestyle change. No guilt. One tap that makes your best days a little bigger than you.

T H I S   I S   A B O U T

Creating a new expectation inside circles that have extra.

Breaking the habit of not thinking about others.
Most comfortable people don't think outside their own bubble. Their joy days and other people's emergencies live in separate mental folders. JoyCut makes that harder to do.
Linking your own joy to someone else's reality — over and over.
Not once. Every great day becomes a small, deliberate moment of awareness and action. That repetition is what creates a habit, and a habit is what creates a norm.
Making this just what decent people do.
Creating a quiet expectation inside "extra" circles. When you have a joy day, you share a cut. Over time, not sharing starts to feel off — out of step with who you are.
T H E   A P P

Simple to set up. Even simpler to use. JoyCut fits into the life you already have.

01
Set your rule once
"Every time I ski, I give $25." "Every weekend at the house, I send $100." Your amount, your call.
02
Tap when you do extra
Ski, sail, travel, eat out. Open JoyCut, tap Send. Your preset amount moves. Your only job: notice this is extra.
03
We move the money
JoyCut routes your cut to organizations matched to your values — housing, food, re-entry, health, your city.
04
See what it actually does
Not a vague sense of giving. A real mirror: nights of shelter, grocery cards, hours of legal help. Outcomes, not optics.
H O W   I T   W O R K S

See it in action.

Every joy day, one tap. Here's what that looks like — and what it does.

T H E   T A P
Fri, Mar 7
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your joy today
Weekend at the house
your cut
$150
or type a different amount
housing
local · your city
mutual aid

One tap.

Your default amount moves automatically to organizations aligned with your values. No research, no friction, no second-guessing.

  • Set it once — static amount, your call
  • Routed to your causes: housing, food, re-entry, health
  • Clean updates showing where it went — no spam
  • Switch to self-directed mode anytime to choose specific orgs

Your only job: notice this is extra.

Y O U R   Y E A R

Your dashboard doesn't just say "you gave."

It shows exactly what your joy days did.

$4,200
moved this year
31
joy days shared
11
families kept housed
48
grocery cards funded
Where it went
housing
62%
food
21%
re-entry
17%
What it did
11 families kept housed for one month
48 grocery cards funded
22 hours of legal help, paid
Real outcomes. Yours.

"We didn't know how to make rent. Someone's joy day covered it."

— Housing partner, your city

2025
$4,200
total this year
31
joy days shared
Where it went
housing
62%
food
21%
re-entry
17%
What it did
11 families kept housed for one month
48 grocery cards funded
22 hrs of legal help, paid
"We didn't know how to make rent. Someone's joy day covered it."
— Housing partner, your city

You keep living exactly the way you live. But when someone asks what you do with the good days — you have a real answer.

This isn't charity. It's just what people who've made it do with it.

every joy day, a cut for someone who can't
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