Lulo

Our Story

Lulo began as a personal fix to a personal problem. It started way back in 2018. I downloaded TikTok for the first time. But then I noticed I was losing hours everyday consuming mindless content. After awhile I decided enough was enough and uninstalled TikTok. However I quickly just replaced my scrolling habits with Instagram. Before long I had the same scrolling problem, just with Instagram now.

The problem is not with me, but with the social media platforms themselves. They are designed to entrap you and make you spend as much time as possible on the apps. They want you to become addicted. Well in that, they succeeded. I was addicted. But I could not get rid of Instagram nor Facebook due to FOMO. I tried. But I lost touch with social activities going on around me. I decided there needed to be a way that I can participate socially but be in full control of my consumption. I developed what would become Lulo just as a personal tool to remove the main Instagram feed and reels so that I could still talk to friends and see their stories, but without a way to mindlessly scroll.

Fast forward 6 months, the realisation struck that a lot of people have the same problem. So I reached out to my friend and very talented programmer Akhilesh Chandorkar, to help make this dream of helping others take back control, become a reality. 

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And now here we are. Working hard to bring Lulo to you!