Six Strangers Meet At A Restaurant For The First Time…

An app for foodies to mingle exists

There’s an app called Timeleft that matches you with five strangers in your city, to share a dinner together.

When you sign up for the app it asks you some personality styled questions. It tries to get a sense for who you are looking for. As an example I told the app I’m in a relationship, I’m in my 30’s and it tried to get a feel for what sort of dinner person I’d be.

Reddit has led me to believe it matches you with whomever is more or less close enough in your area, however that’s all speculation.

I have not tried this out, however I’m really considering it. 

Until the fuck boys come, we have an interesting socializing agent on our hands.

Meeting people as you get older outside of work is tough

I’m still learning how to not be an antisocial recluse.

I head out into the world and meet people. There’s a lot of practice that goes into successful socializing. Some people are pretty good at it, but mostly because they don’t let the uncomfortable moments phase them.

That being said, when everyone you chill with is busy (think procreation), what do you do to find new people? Timeleft found an interesting way to solve that problem. They created a little fishbowl environment where a bunch of strangers can spend a few hours together.

In an extremely low risk way, that at the very least, gets you a nice meal.

Timeleft solves a clear problem.

While Timeleft can be used for dating, it’s built for everyone

The goal of the app is to meet new people that you can spend more time with.

While I believe this app will get invaded by a bunch of dudes trying to find vaginas to fuck, I think it will have a solid run during it’s ascent. As it acquires new clientele, it will likely be foodies, and people who are the real demographic they want. I imagine it’s actually a pretty fun time for the most part.

Reddit made it sound like it’s a group first date, it’s either going to be amazing or terrible, and I am here for all of it.

The Timelft folk clearly saw the gajillion articles about lonely people sucking at meeting people and found a public and safe way to bring strangers together.

They even managed to create economic filters that will help you like the people you meet more

Despite what many wish for, classism is real and people tend to feel more comfortable with people who make a similar amount.

You can let Timeleft know if you want to eat on a budget, spend some cash, or if you really want to ball out. This is an interesting filter because the potential for chilling after the fact, is likely going to be related to people sharing common interests, with similar enough lifestyles. I never thought about it before, but you can vet a lot of things in that domain based on how much people are willing to spend on dinner. 

Maybe that’s nonsense, but I think there’s some logic behind it. 

The app seems to be designed in a way to let you gamble a bit on meeting people. 

If the night goes good, they even recommend bars y’all can hit after. 

When I try it out, I’ll keep you posted.

Live Long and Prosper Everyone