Hey HN, we've just launched Vibe IRL, an app designed to bridge the gap between online connections and real-world interactions. In an era where digital interactions often replace face-to-face encounters, Vibe IRL aims to transform how people meet and interact in their local environments.Key Features:Mood-Based Matching: Users can find others based on current mood, promoting more meaningful and relevant meetups. Instant Local Meetups: Designed to encourage spontaneous real-life interactions, making socializing effortless and immediate. We created Vibe IRL as a free platform to help make genuine connections in local communities. We're excited about the potential to not only enhance how people socialize but to also provide a tool that combats the increasing sense of isolation in the digital age.The app is free to download and we're keen to hear feedback from the community to make it even better. Check it out here https://vibeirl.app and let us know what you think!

Built a small web app to solve a pain point I've had in meeting people for coffee in NYC. It's fairly crude, but if people like it, I think there are some interesting ways to improve it.

A dead-simple web app to find the best time for your next meetup with friends. No logins, no bloat. Schedule with a link.---When trying to schedule events with my friends, we often have a long text thread of sporadic dates and the group has to mentally combine all the messages to produce a date that works for all.There are plenty of apps out there to coordinate scheduling, but I found many of them were bloated with features that didn't matter to us, required user sign ups and app downloads. This friction is enough for us to prefer rudimentary long text threads. I wanted something that I could post in the thread once, my friends can add their availability on their own time (and can edit), and we can continue on our conversation.WAYF (When are you free?) is a fun side project that solves this issue. Bare-bones scheduling for what days you are free. No user accounts, no downloads, just paste a link and anyone can schedule. It's completely free.I hope you like it and find it useful, I would love feedback.

Hi all, Andrew here. I hate smalltalk[1] but love deep conversations and want more of them, for myself and for others. This is why I made pairup.social. It's a conversation-finding and friend-finding app based on the things you'd most like to talk about. Sure, you have your friends, colleagues and family you can talk to, but it can be hard to go deep on your unique interests. Finding and reaching out to people on the internet is possible, but in practice I find I don’t really do it that much. It’s a bit awkward. If I found them on a single-topic discussion group, I don’t know much else about them, including other interests or even if they’re open to meeting people at all. None of this is impossible to overcome, but there's enough friction to mostly stop me from doing it. The goal of this app is to make this easy enough that it actually happens.How it works:1. Install the iOS or Android app. Sign-in can be deferred until after you’ve tried it out.2. Add a bunch of links to capture what you are interested in at the moment. These can be links to accounts you follow, communities you've joined, books, movies or podcasts you love, causes you support – anything really. Your links/interests simultaneously describe you to others and enable the app to match you to people with overlapping and compatible interests. Your combination of links can be incredibly specific and nuanced but also very easy to build and maintain (try it!)3. Complete your minimal profile: one picture, a name, optional bio, and locations you spend time in (if you want to emphasize local matches). Your interests are already a great way to describe you, so this kept very simple.4. Fuzzy matching occurs. People with overlapping interests (either the same links or other links about the same or similar things) are suggested to you. You can see their interests and decide if you’d like the option to chat with them. Typical mutual-opt-in mechanics result in “pairups” and you can both take it from there and start chatting whenever you’re ready. No pressure, you already have things to talk about.I'd love it if you gave it a try and let me know what you think![1] I did enjoy coding in Smalltalk in a past, past life https://techcrunch.com/2006/03/11/dabbledb-online-app-buildi... https://www.mercurynews.com/2010/06/10/twitter-buys-software...

Hey everyone!I built a little side project called OpenQuest over the last three weeks, and I'm looking for some feedback to see if it's worth taking further.The idea is simple: it's a place to create a chat room where you can connect with people (a maximum of 8) who have the same goal as you, for a short time (7 days for now).Think of it as a way to stay motivated, hold each other accountable, or simply work together with new people on something specific.Some examples can be: - Following a programming course - Reading a book - Getting back to the gym - Cleaning up your home - Shopping for a mechanical keyboard For example, here's a room I created to get things going: https://openquest.app/rooms/6Why did I build this?Mostly as a response to what the internet feels like these days. Social media is to me an overwhelmingly negative time waster, where it feels like we're uniting more around things we hate than common interests. And search engines are so SEO-optimized that it's now almost impossible to find new and genuine things. Crowdsourcing research, even for something simple like shopping for a new graphics card, seems like it could be more enjoyable with a small group of people going through the same thing.And if anyone is interested: the tech stack is Elixir + Phoenix + LiveView.I’d love to hear what you think, whether it’s positive, negative, or somewhere in between. Any feedback is helpful, please don’t hold back.Thanks for taking a look!