About
Hi — I'm Nick. A few years ago, I moved to Boston and quickly realized something that felt too obvious to ignore: making friends as an adult is surprisingly hard.
I'd go to work, come home, repeat. Weekends would pass without plans. I watched myself and others move to new places full of hope, only to find myself months later still eating dinner alone. The tools I was given — dating apps, social media, work events — weren't built for the kind of connection I actually needed.
I was living the loneliness epidemic every day, even with people all around me.
How it started
So I ran an experiment. I started organizing small dinner parties for strangers — matching people by shared interests, picking the restaurant, handling the details. No awkward networking. No forced small talk. Just good food with people who might actually become friends.
It worked. People started asking how they could join. Friends of friends wanted in. Pretty soon it outgrew my spreadsheet and group texts.
Turns out meeting people is easy when someone else handles all the details. Who knew! In any case, that was a key insight for me.
How it's going
Now I'm building onthe.town so others can do the same thing in their own cities. People who get energy from watching strangers become friends can finally do it without the logistical nightmare.
Our platform handles the matching, the venues, the payments, the communication. We even handle the bookings. All our organizers do is bring the vision and the community. There's a growing network of organizers out there proving that people want to connect — and are willing to pay to support such efforts.
Every city has people who crave social interaction. Every city has someone who can make it happen. We're giving them the tools.
