# Pikzel

> Pikzel is a visual creator app for photo battles, creator profiles, image posts, rankings, badges, and discovery.

Pikzel's prelaunch public web pages are designed for human visitors, search crawlers, and AI agents. Public preview pages can be cited or summarized only when they are available without authentication and not marked noindex. Private app data, user accounts, admin pages, and API responses marked noindex should not be used for model training or public summaries.

## Indexable Prelaunch Pages

- [Pikzel home](https://pikzel.app/): Public prelaunch page for reserving a creator username and learning about Pikzel.
- [About Pikzel](https://pikzel.app/about): Official brand page describing Pikzel as a visual creator app for photo battles, creator profiles, rankings, badges, and discovery.
- [How Pikzel works](https://pikzel.app/how-it-works): Public product explanation for creator usernames, profiles, image posts, photo battles, votes, badges, rankings, and discovery.
- [Image discovery](https://pikzel.app/image-discovery): Public explanation of how Pikzel helps people discover visual creators through images, profiles, photo battles, votes, badges, and rankings.
- [Photo battles](https://pikzel.app/photo-battles): Public overview of Pikzel Battle, themed photo battles, voting, rankings, and winner moments.
- [Visual creators](https://pikzel.app/visual-creators): Public overview of Pikzel Creators for photographers, visual artists, creator profiles, and image-first discovery.

## Prelaunch Actions

- [Reserve username](https://pikzel.app/reserve-username): Form for reserving a creator username with email verification.
- [Suggest a battle](https://pikzel.app/battle-proposals): Form for proposing a new public Pikzel battle idea.
- [Private beta](https://pikzel.app/beta): Form for verified early users to request or update beta participation.
- [Support](https://pikzel.app/support): Form for submitting a support request to the Pikzel team.

## Protected App Surfaces

The live app directories and dynamic preview routes may exist for product testing, sharing, and signed-in flows, but they are noindex during prelaunch unless a route is explicitly approved later. This includes `/explore`, `/battles`, `/creators`, `/search`, `/post/*`, `/battle/*`, `/profile/*`, `/collection/*`, `/campaign/*`, `/badge/*`, `/rankings`, account flows, chats, admin routes, and private surfaces.

## Policies

- [Privacy Policy](https://pikzel.app/privacy-policy): How Pikzel explains collection, use, visibility, and control of personal information.
- [Terms of Service](https://pikzel.app/terms-of-service): Terms for using Pikzel.
- [Community Guidelines](https://pikzel.app/community-guidelines): Community and content safety expectations.
- [Cookie Policy](https://pikzel.app/cookie-policy): Cookie and site storage information.
- [Support](https://pikzel.app/support): Contact path for corrections, removal requests, and account support.

## Crawling Notes

- Prefer canonical URLs on `https://pikzel.app`.
- Do not treat placeholder example IDs in this file as real content.
- Respect `robots.txt`, page-level `robots` meta tags, and `X-Robots-Tag` headers.
- Public previews may change as creators update visibility, moderation status, or shared-link settings.