Loneliness is a serious public-health problem
I grew up and live in Seattle, where loneliness and meeting people is such problem we have our own Wikipedia page about it, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Freeze" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Freeze</a><p>When meeting people from other cities, it is hard to explain exactly how bad Seattle is. One case in point, the Seattle meet up scene is dead compared to other similar cities. Even the engineering groups (PHP, React Native) that have hundreds of active participates in other cities will have dozens to none in Seattle.<p>Put 10 people from Seattle in a room and suggest an activity, and everyone will nod their heads, say that sounds like a great idea, and then never take the final steps of organizing to do it.<p>This Seattle mentality lead me to found <a href="https://www.thawd.net" rel="nofollow">https://www.thawd.net</a> where we are melting the social freeze. I'm a technologist, so I have to believe that technology can solve problems, and I hope that the system Thawd is building can help reduce loneliness. The tl;dr is that Thawd removes all the friction of social activities, and presents the user with a great big "get me together with other people right now" button. Everything Thawd does happens super short term, 3-72 hours in the future, and our MVP is not eating dinner alone, we form a group of people who'll enjoy spending a couple hours talking with each other.<p>If I don't solve the problem, I sure hope someone else does, because, honestly, Seattle is a lonely place to live.