Gather is a map-based app for finding and hosting neighborhood gatherings around shared interests. It's built for people to connect over things like life-drawing classes and dance sessions, not casual hookups. The founder positions it as an operating system for community building, where people can find others they vibe with locally.
So Gather is really simple. It's just, you can look on a map, you can see different gatherings that people are hosting in your neighborhood. The goal is to make it easier for you to find people who you vibe with in your neighborhood, and then regularly meet up so you can deepen your connections with them. I want it to be an operating system for us to kind of build community. It's not just like an events app. It's not a hookup app. I actually explicitly have communicated that we don't want to be a hookup app because there's a lot of those out there. And expectations around hooking up can sometimes for me, get in the way of connection. So we recently had a lot of people try and create more intimate gatherings, and I had to sort of really clearly communicate that like, this isn't Grindr. Like, you can go to Grindr if you want to use those, but the types of things that people are arranging on Gather are like, do life drawing class or a dance or a cuddle puddle.
