River is the IRL community OS—a new way to meet like-minded people near you. We’ve powered hundreds of meetups for Tim Ferriss, The All-In Podcast & Bryan Johnson by turning followers into local hosts. Join, host, or launch events with River.
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+1 for stuff that makes it easier to bring people together IRL! The big question: if I’m hosting events or running a community, what are the big reasons to use River over something like Luma or Partiful?
@aaron_cohn Was hoping someone would ask! Luma and Partiful are both beautiful event tools that I've used and loved many times. The problem is they just don't scale to global community events or allow for a smaller local community to save time with recurring events, auto invites, collecting photos from events, and empowering the community to host more events.
On Luma, they assume the host is initiating the event and that the host knows how to throw an event and get people to come. On River, big brands can create an event campaign (a fake save-the-date-event in every city around the world and let their community step up to host. This is how Tim Ferriss had 154 cities meeting up on the same day to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his pod. Now Tim fans can propose an event in their city and automatically invite local community members — all while Tim collects the data and controls the quality. Luma is great for VC & networking events where the host is a pro and has their own reach.
On River, when you host an event inside a community such as Tim Ferriss, you get more people to come to your events. And the people who register become your follower on River, so you can invite them directly to your own personal events in the future. River is best for communities who want a centralized place for events but decentralized effort.
On Partiful, they do not have a CRM, so you have to text the invite to your people. They don't have paid events, and certainly can't let other people host in your community. Partiful is great for house parties and birthday parties!
We're still new, but we're shipping fast and aim to have Luma's snappiness, Partiful's fun vibes — all with powerful features for automation and scale.
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Been using River for over a year to be a part of my favorite communities and meet like-minded people. It's been AMAZING, have met tons of great people and even hosted some events myself. It's a great user experience - whether that's as a host or user or Admin.
@aeromaniax wow amazing! Thank you so much Constantine! Hit us up if you ever want help hosting or finding cool people in your city to get together IRL with!
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Now this must be serendipity because today I have been looking for meetups to go to!!
Love the look of River (great name) & I like the notion of Founder Fridays - I find myself so busy w/ CRANQ that it means often I get to the weekend & I don't want to be social/don't always have events to go to - Now this is up my street!!
WOWWW! This is super cool — congrats on the launch! Really love the idea of giving online communities an easy way to spill into real life. The app feels clean and super intuitive too, which makes a huge difference when you’re trying to convince people to actually show up to something 😅
Also kinda obsessed with how you’re using it for Founder Fridays and All-In meetups!! Excited to see where it goes from here!
@madalenascarneiro thank you Madalena! So glad to have you as an advisor and for developing our brand at River!
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Congrats on the launch! This looks like a great way to build community and encourage more meet-ups IRL. Having the All-In Podcast and This Week In Startups on the platform is a great start.
The ability to collect photos from your guests on the event page is a nice way to engage event attendees, and I like that the platform allows you to create waitlists to gauge interest for starting a community. Excited to see how this develops. Joined 😊.
There are things that people LOVE about hosting and there are things people HATE.
River is taking care of the latter.
Personally Rae (married cofounders) and I have been involved in planning large events and running local communities for 2 decades. There are loads of basic things that get you 90% of the way to a growing or even thriving community. River’s plan is to automate this cruft so that everyone can be a host.
+1 for stuff that makes it easier to bring people together IRL! The big question: if I’m hosting events or running a community, what are the big reasons to use River over something like Luma or Partiful?
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@aaron_cohn Was hoping someone would ask! Luma and Partiful are both beautiful event tools that I've used and loved many times. The problem is they just don't scale to global community events or allow for a smaller local community to save time with recurring events, auto invites, collecting photos from events, and empowering the community to host more events.
On Luma, they assume the host is initiating the event and that the host knows how to throw an event and get people to come. On River, big brands can create an event campaign (a fake save-the-date-event in every city around the world and let their community step up to host. This is how Tim Ferriss had 154 cities meeting up on the same day to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his pod. Now Tim fans can propose an event in their city and automatically invite local community members — all while Tim collects the data and controls the quality. Luma is great for VC & networking events where the host is a pro and has their own reach.
On River, when you host an event inside a community such as Tim Ferriss, you get more people to come to your events. And the people who register become your follower on River, so you can invite them directly to your own personal events in the future. River is best for communities who want a centralized place for events but decentralized effort.
On Partiful, they do not have a CRM, so you have to text the invite to your people. They don't have paid events, and certainly can't let other people host in your community. Partiful is great for house parties and birthday parties!
We're still new, but we're shipping fast and aim to have Luma's snappiness, Partiful's fun vibes — all with powerful features for automation and scale.
Been using River for over a year to be a part of my favorite communities and meet like-minded people. It's been AMAZING, have met tons of great people and even hosted some events myself. It's a great user experience - whether that's as a host or user or Admin.
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@andrew_henke Love it Andrew! You're such a great host, community builder, and story teller. So appreciate you supporting the launch today!
I like this. Instantly joined your app and joined the All-In podcast community. Great interface, very easy to use.
Congrats & good luck on your launch!
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@aeromaniax wow amazing! Thank you so much Constantine! Hit us up if you ever want help hosting or finding cool people in your city to get together IRL with!
Now this must be serendipity because today I have been looking for meetups to go to!!
Love the look of River (great name) & I like the notion of Founder Fridays - I find myself so busy w/ CRANQ that it means often I get to the weekend & I don't want to be social/don't always have events to go to - Now this is up my street!!
Best of luck w/ the launch!!
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@cranqnow I live for serendipity! Really appreciate your taking the time to check out River!
@raechellambert Anytime Raechel, me too - It's the best!
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WOWWW! This is super cool — congrats on the launch!
Really love the idea of giving online communities an easy way to spill into real life. The app feels clean and super intuitive too, which makes a huge difference when you’re trying to convince people to actually show up to something 😅
Also kinda obsessed with how you’re using it for Founder Fridays and All-In meetups!! Excited to see where it goes from here!
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@madalenascarneiro Thank you so much for all your support Madalena! Will never thank you enough for designing the River brand for us!
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@madalenascarneiro thank you Madalena! So glad to have you as an advisor and for developing our brand at River!
Congrats on the launch! This looks like a great way to build community and encourage more meet-ups IRL. Having the All-In Podcast and This Week In Startups on the platform is a great start.
The ability to collect photos from your guests on the event page is a nice way to engage event attendees, and I like that the platform allows you to create waitlists to gauge interest for starting a community. Excited to see how this develops. Joined 😊.
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@smjburton Thank you so much! I really appreciate your joining and following along!
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There are things that people LOVE about hosting and there are things people HATE.
River is taking care of the latter.
Personally Rae (married cofounders) and I have been involved in planning large events and running local communities for 2 decades. There are loads of basic things that get you 90% of the way to a growing or even thriving community. River’s plan is to automate this cruft so that everyone can be a host.