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 🙊