Most apps either drop you into a giant networking event or make you swipe on profiles. Let's app is different: you match on the activity, not faces. Post what you actually want to do (golf, coffee, pickleball, a movie tonight) and people nearby ask to join. You approve who comes, hosts are ID verified, and locations stay approximate until you say yes. Plus a private mode to plan with your own friends in subgroups, so you can ditch the busy group chat. This is the app for forming connections IRL.
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I built Let's app out of a pretty personal frustration. I wanted to be social but had no real outlet for it. I work from home, I'm well out of college, and I'm not part of any clubs, so my only move was striking up conversations with strangers and hoping we had something in common.
And even for the great friendships I did build over the years, being in a new city, the hard part never went away: actually getting together. It was endless back-and-forth texting across a bunch of different people to see who was free on any given night or weekend, and it usually ended with me just staying in because nobody was available.
I waited years for someone to build the thing that fixed this. Eventually I gave up waiting and built it myself.
Let's app is dead simple: post what you actually want to do (golf, coffee, a movie tonight) and people nearby can ask to join. You approve who gets in. You match on the activity, not profiles. Hosts are ID verified and locations stay approximate until you approve someone.
The part I'm most excited about is you can also use it privately with your own friends so it's useful right away, even without local adoption in your immediate area yet. Make subgroups or invite people directly instead of herding everyone into one giant group chat nobody reads.
So, it fixes both problems, meeting new people AND actually getting your existing friends to show up.
It's live on the App Store & Play Store!
Loneliness is a real and honestly scary problem, and I don't think one app fixes it. But the gap between "I want to do something" and "I have people to do it with" feels fixable. That's what I'm going after.
Would love your honest feedback. Did you download? What did you love/hate/hope to see? What would make you more likely to share this with your friends?
Many thanks in advance!
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How does the matching actually work if I'm posting an activity do people just see my profile or is it more like a feed they scroll through
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@nurantrnakcuhu It will be a feed of events, rather than profiles.. Anyone in, or searching in, the location of your posted event (up to 50 mi) will see your event and can request to join. They will see your profile once they tap the event so they know who the host is. You'll get a ping saying someone wants in and will likewise see their profile + a message if they wrote one, and be able to accept/decline their request.
For private events, it works the same, but only the people or group you select from your close friends list will see it on their feed and can request to join.
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how does the matching actually work once you post an activity, is it location-based radius or more like interest-based first
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@elife1154371 it's location based and interest sorted. You can also search across the entire post to find things you're into
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Tried posting a coffee meetup last night and got two nearby people interested within an hour, which surprised me. The activity-first approach just feels way less awkward than swiping on faces.
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@elmasfdth that's awesome to hear! I don't know in what world we decided that matching with the face is the ideal way to make a friend 🤷♂️ Here's to a better way!
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Finally tried it yesterday and posted a pickleball game. Got two solid replies within an hour and the ID verification thing actually made me feel way safer about meeting strangers. Approving who comes is a nice touch.
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Activity-first matching actually makes it way easier to skip the awkward small talk and just show up to play pickleball or grab coffee. Approving who joins is a nice touch too.
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@cemile39555 exactly! Small tall becomes a good conversations when you always have a common interest.
How does the matching actually work if I'm posting an activity do people just see my profile or is it more like a feed they scroll through
@nurantrnakcuhu It will be a feed of events, rather than profiles.. Anyone in, or searching in, the location of your posted event (up to 50 mi) will see your event and can request to join. They will see your profile once they tap the event so they know who the host is. You'll get a ping saying someone wants in and will likewise see their profile + a message if they wrote one, and be able to accept/decline their request.
For private events, it works the same, but only the people or group you select from your close friends list will see it on their feed and can request to join.
how does the matching actually work once you post an activity, is it location-based radius or more like interest-based first
@elife1154371 it's location based and interest sorted. You can also search across the entire post to find things you're into
Tried posting a coffee meetup last night and got two nearby people interested within an hour, which surprised me. The activity-first approach just feels way less awkward than swiping on faces.
@elmasfdth that's awesome to hear! I don't know in what world we decided that matching with the face is the ideal way to make a friend 🤷♂️ Here's to a better way!
Finally tried it yesterday and posted a pickleball game. Got two solid replies within an hour and the ID verification thing actually made me feel way safer about meeting strangers. Approving who comes is a nice touch.
Activity-first matching actually makes it way easier to skip the awkward small talk and just show up to play pickleball or grab coffee. Approving who joins is a nice touch too.
@cemile39555 exactly! Small tall becomes a good conversations when you always have a common interest.