Human Connection Project
A better way to find your people.
Dating apps are broken, and too focused on dating as the only relationship worth optimizing for. Meetup isn't great either, since few of us have just one interest we want to meet people around. And "just put yourself out there and the universe will provide" doesn't seem to be working: roughly 1 in 2 Americans report measurable loneliness.
We think there's something in between, and we're building it.
The Problem With All Three Approaches
Dating apps like OKCupid proved something real: a little bit of filtering goes a long way. Knowing that someone shares your values or your sense of humor before you meet them? That's genuinely useful. But swipe culture took that insight and ran it off a cliff. Endless scrolling through strangers, reducing people to a photo and a bio: that isn't good for us. And it only works for dating. What about the friend you'd go hiking with every weekend, or the creative collaborator you didn't know you needed?
Meetup groups and communities don't help you filter on anything but the one feature of the community, the shared interest. But a single interest rarely clearly collects the people we'd click with. And even in a great community, the math is brutal: unless we decide to become a regular, it'll take years to meet a wide variety of people who show up irregularly.
Leaving it to chance works sometimes. But it's slow, it's random, and it quietly asks you to be everywhere, all the time, just in case you miss someone. Most of us can't do that, and shouldn't have to. Compatibility matching is a tedious thing, and computers are really great at the tedious things.
A Simulation
Select your settings on a meetup group to see how long it'll take you to find 2 great connections, assuming there are some in the community you're going to.
Most communities have this exact problem. A Discord or meetup group might have 200+ members, but only 20 show up regularly. If you don't click with those 20, you might never discover the compatible people in the wider community who just don't come to the same events you do.
Instead of hoping you'll randomly bump into the right people, wouldn't it be nice if you could find the compatible folks and agree to come to a specific meetup together? Years of random chance, replaced by a single introduction.
What We're Trying Instead
HCP is a set of compatibility tools that event organizers can add to their existing communities. You take a short quiz, and our tools find the people you're most likely to click with across the entire community, not just whoever showed up the same night you did.
You don't need to show up to everything. We find the right people for you, whether you're looking for a partner, a hiking buddy, or just people who get you.
Want to get involved? Take some of our quizzes so we can connect you with the right people when you come to one of our events, or when we launch online matching. Have questions? Check the FAQ.
Are you an event organizer? If you run meetups, dinners, game nights, or any recurring community events, we'd love to work with you. Get in touch (TODO).