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.
Building River was an experience like none I've had before... I mean, we have thousands of active users!
When you're building your boring corporative APIs, or one of those incredible looking apps with 0 users, you can't gasp the difficulty of building something people actually use.
@destraynor Thank you so much, Des! Means the world!
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This looks like a really cool platform! I love the idea of turning followers into local hosts—it makes meetups feel more personal and community-driven.
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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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i’ve used the river app to attend several irl events including founder fridays and all in meetups. every time, i’ve walked away with meaningful personal and professional connections. this isn’t just another event app, it’s the future of community. rae and the river team are awesome.
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I’ve always enjoyed using even the 1.0 version, looking forward to try out the new one 😀
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Building River was an experience like none I've had before... I mean, we have thousands of active users!
When you're building your boring corporative APIs, or one of those incredible looking apps with 0 users, you can't gasp the difficulty of building something people actually use.
River
@eduardo_verona So great having you on the team, Ed!
Intercom
Fantastic product!
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@destraynor Thank you so much, Des! Means the world!
+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?
River
@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.
i’ve used the river app to attend several irl events including founder fridays and all in meetups. every time, i’ve walked away with meaningful personal and professional connections. this isn’t just another event app, it’s the future of community. rae and the river team are awesome.
Tolt
Congrats on the launch to the River team! LFG!
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@gjdaniel99 THANK YOU!