looking for an easy way to make sure you actually see your friends?
hi! i'm hangpal, a new AI hangout planner.
i keep track of who you haven't seen in a while, magically put together plans you & your friends will both like, and even write the invite text.
you just hit send. and then go hang out 🐒!
maybe you have this question
why can't i just ask any AI?
ask both of them the same thing. one of them already knows your vibe.
who could i see this weekend, and what could we do?
happy to help! to suggest someone, could you tell me a bit about your friends? who are you closest to, when did you last see them, and what do you like doing together?
also, what does your weekend look like?
hangpalwho could i see this weekend, and what could we do?
let's see, which one sounds like your weekend?
- sat · 10amhike to Rattlesnake Ledgewith Jess AlvarezRattlesnake Lake Recreation Area · North Bendmoderate four-mile trail, big lake-and-mountain views
- sat · 2pmdo a bouldering workout at Poplarwith Maya ChenBouldering Project, Poplar · South Seattletwo floors of climbing & gym, with a cafe and bar
- sun · 4pmplay board games and pinballwith Theo ParkRaygun Lounge · Capitol Hilltabletop games, pizza, beer, plus pinball
i'd pick Jess for saturday: you two had a great Rattlesnake Ledge day before, and the forecast is dry and mild. Maya's climbing session fits her outdoor-trip training, while Theo's birthday is monday, so a games-and-pinball outing sunday would be lovely timing. what sounds best to you?
- it knows the people you care about. who you saw, when, and what they're into, automatically, from your calendar.
- it notices first. it tells you who you haven't seen in a while, usually before you've realized.
- it ends with a plan. that means: a real place, a real time, and even the text to send.
use whatever AI you like for everything else.
for seeing your friends, you're looking for the hangpal chimp.
early feedback from our users.
HangPal gives you a really clear view into which relationships you’ve been investing time in, and which are drifting. I love that it gives ideas of fun stuff to do locally with your friends. It makes keeping up with friends fun and easy!
what does it do?
watch it work.
pick something you’d want to do. these are real conversations with hangpal, replayed.
things to know.
what does hangpal keep track of?
who you’ve seen, who’s drifting, who’s overdue.
ramen with maya 3 weeks ago
pickleball at green lake 1 month
game night at theo’s 2 months
what you actually did, not what you meant to.
the nights you’re actually free.
58° showers sat
indoors or out, and whether it’s worth the walk.
a night market in the ID
free pickleball, 6th ave
openings, pop-ups, the thing this weekend only.
✦ the board game cafe in ballard
✦ sunset paddleboard on lake union
everything you said you’d get around to.
all of the things that matter. checked proactively for you. in seconds.
what it actually does.
it utilizes your calendar history
most of what hangpal knows about you it has analyzed on its own. connect your calendar and it digs through years of history, finds the times you actually saw people, and builds your friend roster out of what already happened: who you see, how often, what the two of you tend to do.
it does this daily, so your social record stays current without you maintaining anything.
it maps everyone by how long it's been
it's hard to keep track of the last time you saw each of your friends. the people you care about are sorted by the last time you saw them rather than alphabetically.
it writes the invite
the actual text, in your voice, with the place and the night already in it. it lands in an editable box. you change whatever you want and send it yourself.
it helps you turn half-baked ideas into real plans
go ahead & save the half-formed ones: a restaurant, a show, that hike someone mentioned. hangpal holds them and offers them up when the night and the person actually line up.
it sends a weekly email with personalized hangout ideas
simple & optional, once a week: see who's drifting, what's on locally, who has a birthday coming up, and more. one email, and never a feed to infinitely scroll.
things people ask.
a general AI can plan a hangout, if you hand it everything first. that’s the problem.
- it doesn’t know your people. you’d re-explain who your friends are, when you last saw them, and what they’re into, every single time.
- it waits to be asked. hangpal is the one that notices you haven’t seen your best friend since february, and says so first.
- it can’t see your week. hangpal reads your calendar and picks a night that’s actually free, instead of your usual calendar tetris challenge.
no, and that one’s deliberate.
- hangpal writes the draft. a real text, in your voice, with the plan already in it.
- you decide what happens next. send it, rewrite it, or throw it out.
- it goes from your phone. your friend hears from you, not from an app they’ve never used.
the group chat is usually where plans stall. everyone says “we should do something”, nobody names a night, the thread scrolls away, and four months pass.
- it names an actual night. not “soon”, a date that’s open on your calendar.
- it finds the actual thing. something specific you’d both turn up to, not “drinks?”.
- it remembers who’s overdue. the friend you keep meaning to text, last seen in may.
- it hands you the text. already written, ready to paste into the chat you already have.
if your group chat already turns into real plans, that’s genuinely great. hangpal is for the rest of us.
it’s close to the opposite.
- no feed. there’s nothing in here to scroll.
- no profile. nothing to maintain, nothing to perform, no one to keep up with.
- nobody else can see it. not your friends, not anyone. what you write here is yours.
it’s a private assistant that quietly reminds you to be a better friend.
no, and it would be a bad sign if it were.
- no streaks, no daily check-in. there is nothing in here to keep alive, besides your actual friendships.
- about ten minutes a week. most people plan a thing or two on a sunday and close it.
- we’d rather you close the app after you’ve made plans with your friends. if you’re spending an hour a day in here, we built it wrong.
you should be at brunch 🐵.
then it was built for you. and it’ll help you tackle four big things all at once:
- who you haven’t seen. hangpal keeps the running tally so you don’t have to hold it in your head.
- what they’d actually enjoy. it remembers what each friend is into, down to the small stuff.
- when you’re both free. it reads your calendar and proposes a night that works.
- what’s going on this week. it looks up what’s happening near you and picks something specific.
sometimes planning the hangout takes longer than the hangout itself. hangpal helps do the planning so you can just show up and have fun.
yes, it works on both iOS and Android, and there’s nothing to download.
- no app store. hangpal is a progressive web app, so it runs straight from your browser.
- add it to your Home Screen. after that it opens and behaves exactly like a native app.
- takes about five seconds. and no, there’s no update to install, ever.
only what you tell it.
- your friends’ names. plus any notes you choose to add about them.
- how often you want to see each one. your call, per person, changeable any time.
- your calendar, only if you connect it. it’s optional, and hangpal works without it.
your data is never sold to anyone. you can delete all of it by emailing hello@hangpal.app.
...because hangpal is cool like that 🙊