you coming? the app built for hanging out, not chatting. save your executive function for IRL.

You meet a cool person at a thing, swap instagrams, and then watch each other's stories for six years without ever actually meeting up 🫣. That specific loneliness is why I built you coming.

Hey everyone, I'm Nicole 👋 a solo founder, nomad for the winter, and software engineer based in London. I've moved around a fair bit over the years: Berlin, NYC, San Francisco, London. Winters in Thailand. Every move meant building up a new friend group and community from scratch.

I found meeting people easy. Turning those people into actual friends, kinda brutal and exhausting. As a busy person who goes to a lot of events, the logistics burned through my executive function: so many group chats, an obscene amount of notifications, too much work to parse through and find the actual hangouts, so I muted them instead.

The truth is WhatsApp and the rest are designed around chatting. Hanging out is an afterthought. And on platforms like Meetup you have no control over who shows up or whether you'll vibe with them. I needed a way to turn the people I met here and there into friends, and keep track of my existing ones, without getting lost in the group chat.

It's about giving serendipity more chances to happen: meeting in real life, without messaging 10 group chats or feeling like you're gate-crashing. For travelers, you can announce where you are and friends there get an alert. Friends far away can offer to connect you to their friends in that city, with a personalized message.

We're designed around IRL first, chat later. No algorithm, so you actually see your friends, and no ragebait. Give it a try if you feel my pain, and if there are features you'd love to see, I'm all ears. I want to build this with the community.

📲 Try it out at youcomingapp.com and please share your feedback!

So cool. I loved the hang out feature, is very useful.

Good idea, but i've done something similar before and it is very difficult to scale!
I hope you have luck with yours!

Great work. Very useful.

Love the design.

Interestingly, I saw Snapchat launched their Snapchat Plans today. It might be worth looking at that and seeing how it looks, what you can take from it etc. This is a highly competitive space right now especially with the likes of Nomadstable and Tripbff (even if they're specifically travel focused).

Few pieces of feedback for you on the app front, hope some, or all of it can help you.
I'd consider a guest mode and/or offering a social single sign on. This will help massively to reduce any sign up friction and drop off.

I'm sure I don't have to remind you that being in the social networking category for apps, you're up against it, but you can make changes and influence your App Store Optimisation. I would start with looking at changing how your name appears on the store. Users are unlikely to find you directly or you show up naturally based on the current.

Good luck!

No more endless whatsapp groups that end in no plans and 7 sentence reasons why someone can't go that day.

I’ve thought that this app was needed for years. I’m so happy it finally exists!

Love it! Good luck, Nicole!

I really like the concept of this. Best of luck in the development :-)

Super useful and great UX!