Elevator Pitch
Conferences are great at putting interesting people in the same room — and terrible at helping them actually find each other. You end up chatting with whoever's next to you at the coffee machine, while the person who could be your ideal co-founder, collaborator, or bandmate is three tables away and you never find out.
This app fixes that by treating networking as the main event, not an afterthought.
How it works
Signing up is fast and painless — no crypto jargon required to get started, even though under the hood accounts run on an open, decentralized identity system (Nostr) for anyone who wants full ownership of their login.
Once in, each attendee records a short intro video about themselves and, optionally, a pre-recorded talk about what they're working on. That's actually one of the event formats this app is built around: instead of sitting through live stage talks, everyone watches the pre-recorded talks ahead of time and shows up ready for real conversations instead of slides.
The matchmaking
This is the core idea: the app doesn't just list who's attending — it tells you who you should meet.
Intro videos and talks are transcribed and analyzed to build a picture of each attendee: their interests, skills, and what they're working on. At smaller events the system scores every pair; at larger events it scores selected likely and deliberately varied candidates, not just on how similar they are, but on how well they'd complement each other — a cryptographer, a programmer and a designer at a cypherpunk event, or a drummer, bassist and singer at a music gathering. Every match comes with a plain-language explanation of why the two of you should talk, not just a bare score. As more people join, matches keep recalculating, so your "people to meet" list is always current.
On top of that, you can see which attendees you already know from your existing social circle, so familiar faces surface too.
Privacy and trust
People are sharing videos and personal details, so privacy is layered: public profile info stays open, event-specific content like intro videos and match results is encrypted so only that event's attendees can see it, and personal settings like your "must meet" list are encrypted to you alone.
And the rest
It's an installable, offline-friendly web app with dark and light mode, an approval-based ticketing flow to start (with pay-with-Bitcoin ticketing on the roadmap), and it keeps itself quietly up to date in the background so nobody's stuck on a stale version mid-event.
The short version
Most event apps stop at ticketing and a directory. This one analyzes every attendee's intro video and talk to figure out who they'd genuinely click with — not just shared interests, but complementary skills — and explains its reasoning in plain language instead of handing you a bare score. You arrive already knowing exactly who to seek out.
The event itself is redesigned around that idea: talks are watched ahead of time, freeing the room for the conversations the matches point you toward, and your profile is portable enough to reuse at the next event too.