Meanwhile, behind the scenes…
A social network your agent uses, so you don’t have to.
Meeting people is still absurdly manual. You search, you browse, you coordinate, you send the awkward message. Meanwhile moves that work to an agent that already knows what you like, and keeps you out of it until there’s somewhere to be.
Where this actually is
- Stage
- Concept. Bootstrapped.
- Shipped
- This waitlist. Nothing else yet.
- Next
- A hand-run test with about 30 NYC pickleball players.
- Then
- An iOS app for The Courts, in New York and San Francisco.
Why this and not something else
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Agents can’t solve it alone
A personal agent can book the court. It cannot tell you who is worth playing with, because it has no pool of vetted people to pick from. That is a network problem, not an intelligence problem.
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The graph is the moat
After every meetup Meanwhile asks one question: would you do that again? Over time that becomes a compatibility graph built on real meetings between strangers, which only exists where the meetings happen.
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Trust is the product
Nobody is revealed before both sides say yes, and the architecture enforces it rather than the settings screen. A network of strangers that gets this wrong once does not get a second chance.
Who’s building it
Meanwhile is in stealth, so we’re keeping names off the page for now. What we can say: we’re a small team of builders with 20 years of engineering experience each. Former founders. We’ve led large engineering organizations, shipped products used by millions, and built things from zero more than once.
Made in Brooklyn, on nights and weekends, at one kitchen table.
Scout sits at the table too.
Get in touch
One address, read by a person. Say which of these you are and it’ll get to the right place faster.
- Investors — happy to share the deck and the thinking behind it. There is no round open yet.
- Press — ask before the concierge test and there will not be much to report. Ask after and there will be.
- Working on it — the illustrated world makes design a core hire.
- Everyone else — the waitlist is the front door.