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We built Pods Offline because
we couldn't find anyone
to do the thing with.
There's a specific loneliness that happens when life shifts and your old circles scatter. You have interests. You have time. But finding people who want to do the exact thing you love, in the real world, turns out to be surprisingly hard.
Most platforms push you toward more content, more followers, more noise. We wanted the opposite. One good run partner. One tight book group. One supper club that actually meets.
So we started with a question: what would it look like if an app's whole purpose was to delete itself from your Sunday morning? Not to be the place you spend the morning, but the place that gets you in the same park as four other people who also wanted to walk at 7am.
The version of Pods you can download today is that question, made into software.
You aren't a bio. You aren't a demographic. You are the things you choose to do on a Sunday. We match on that.
A one-off event is a memory. A weekly ritual is a life. Everything we ship is biased toward the second one.
The moment you're at the cafe, the run, the supper, we've done our job. Everything else is feature creep we don't want.
The founders moved to a new city, started a Sunday running group with a few internet friends. It became something bigger than the kitchen-table chat could hold. We started keeping the rules in a Google Doc.
We tried Meetup, Eventbrite, Partiful, WhatsApp, Discord, several Notion templates, and an Airtable nobody opened twice. We built Pods because none of them treated recurring IRL plans as the thing.
Live across India, the UK and the US. Photo verification, recurring scheduling, paid pods through Stripe, Self Mode for solo rituals. The team is still small enough that the founders read every safety report.
A small team across Bangalore and London. Some of us were product people who burned out on social apps that quietly made everyone lonelier. The rest were the people running run clubs and supper clubs out of WhatsApp.
"An app whose whole purpose is to delete itself from your Sunday morning."
