Most friendships die of scheduling
We are building the shortest path between wanting to see people and actually doing it.
The gap we set out to close
Meaningful connection rarely happens at big organised gatherings. It happens on a walk, over a coffee, at a bouldering wall on a Tuesday. Those are exactly the things nobody builds software for, because they are too small to organise and too spontaneous to plan.
So most people fall back on group chats where every plan needs a champion, and on the quiet assumption that making friends as an adult is just hard now. It is not hard. It is badly supported.
The journey
ConnectCZ was founded by Amit Goldy, a technologist with over a decade of experience and a long-standing interest in using software to bring people together rather than keep them scrolling.
After moving to Vancouver, Canada, he ran into the problem directly. The existing apps were built around large organised gatherings, with real effort and cost falling on whoever hosted. There was nothing for a small, casual, same-day ask. That left a lot of people out — particularly the roughly half of us who would rather join three people for a walk than forty strangers in a room.
The second problem was what happened afterwards. Even when these apps helped people meet, they did nothing to help the connection survive. You swapped numbers, texted once, and that was that. Keeping a new friendship alive was left entirely to whoever was willing to be the persistent one.
What we built
ConnectCZ is built around a single idea: the invitation. A short note saying what you feel like doing and when. Anyone nearby can say yes. There is no audience, no ticketing, no reach to optimise, and nothing to be good at.
And because the people you meet stay reachable — you follow them, they see your next invitation — a good afternoon has somewhere to go. That is the part we care most about. Meeting someone is easy. The second time is what makes a friend.
Where we are
We are early, and deliberately so. ConnectCZ grows neighbourhood by neighbourhood, because a social app is only as good as how many people near you are on it. If you are one of the first in your area, your invitations matter more than most.