Spots
The place is the thing that lasts.
Events end. Group chats rot. The court is still there next Tuesday — and so are the people who play on it.
Why a place, and not an event
Events expire. Places don't.
Almost every tool for getting people together starts with an occasion: pick a date, name it, invite people, watch it die. That shape is right for a wedding and wrong for a Tuesday.
The event shape
Created, used once, gone.
- 📅 Starts with a date
- ✍️ Somebody has to make it
- 📨 Somebody has to invite you
- 🪦 Expires the morning after
- 🔁 Do it all again next week
The spot shape
Already there. Still there next Tuesday.
- 📍 Starts with a place
- 🌍 Shared — nobody owns it
- 🔔 You follow it; no invitation exists
- ♾️ Outlives every session on it
- 👋 Turn up whenever it suits
What a spot carries
A place, and everything the regulars know about it.
The gate code. Which end of the beach is any good. That the 6pm court is always taken. All the stuff a group knows and a new person doesn't — attached to the place instead of buried in a chat from March.
Following a spot
The invitation, inverted.
Nobody has to remember to include you — which means nobody can forget to. You pick the activities and the days you care about, and hear about nothing else.
🌊 The harbour
→ Ping me whenever it blows, whoever's going.
🏟️ The sports hall
→ The Tuesday yoga crowd never reaches me.
Shared, not owned
Spots are global. Anyone can create one, everyone uses the same one — so the beach does not exist five times in five private groups.
Public enough to be useful
Anyone can see a spot is busy without an account. Only signed-in people see who is going. Being findable should not mean being surveilled.
Shareable
A spot is a link. Drop it into whatever chat your people already use — they can look before they commit to anything, including us.
Somewhere you keep going back to?
That's a spot. Put it in, follow it, and see who turns up.
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