Showup.
Show up, hang out.
The social platform for real life. Find people near you doing something this week, or start your own group and run it your way.
This is what it looks like
Ordinary evenings, with people who turned up.
Things people put on here
- Volleyball
- Board games
- Bouldering
- Picnics
- Language tables
- Basketball
- Stargazing
- Swimming
- Film nights
- Long walks
- Cooking
- Sitting in a park
No season. No membership. No forms.
Nothingto showup to.
- 01
You moved. You graduated. Your people left. The group chat went quiet.
- 02
Meetup feels like homework. Teams want a whole season. Clubs want a sign-up form.
- 03
You just want Tuesday, 6pm, and somewhere to be.
Why it exists
Go onlineto get offline.
Social media was supposed to make us more social.
It did the opposite. The feeds got longer and the evenings got quieter, and the closest thing to a friend on a Tuesday became a notification. Those apps got very good at keeping you in the room. None of them got any good at getting you out of it.
Showup runs it the other way. Open it, see where people will be on Thursday, then put your phone in your pocket and go. There is no feed, nothing to keep up with, nobody to impress. The evening is the point, and the evening happens outside.
How it works
Two steps.And a maybe.
Find something to do
Real meetups near you, each one posted by a person who will be there. You see the time, the place, what it is and who is coming.
Within cycling distance.
Just turn up
No fee, no sign-up, no season. Just be there at the time it says.
Come when you can.
Join, if you like it
Had a good time? Join the group and you’ll know who’s around next week. If not, there’s nothing to cancel.
Entirely optional.
Yours to run
Make ityour own.
If you would do it with people, it belongs here.
A Tuesday volleyball game. A board game table. A picnic in July. A group that cooks together, a group that watches films, a group that walks to nowhere in particular. You write it, you set the rules, you run it. Nothing on here has an opinion about what your thing is supposed to look like.
- Start a group
- A name, a picture, a few words about who it is for. That is the whole setup, and it takes about a minute.
- Or just post one thing
- No group needed. Pick a day, a time and a place, and it is on the map. Plenty of good evenings only happen once.
- Decide who can find it
- Listed for the whole town, or reachable only by the link you send. Change your mind whenever you like.
- Decide who can come
- Open to anyone, members of your group, or just your friends. You pick it per event, not once and for good.
- Say how many fit
- Eight seats at a table, thirty on a pitch, or no limit at all. When it fills, the next people queue instead of being turned away.
- Say who gets in
- Let anyone walk in, or approve each person yourself. Some groups want a door and some do not, and both are fine.
Afterwards, everyone who came can add their pictures. They stay on the event, so the group has something to look back on.
Where it is now
One city first.Then the rest.
This is early, and that is the plan.
Aachen goes first, properly, before anywhere else. It is small and full of students, so most of it is a short ride from the rest of it. The work right now is getting real groups onto the map here, with the student organizations and the people at the university who already run things.
None of it is wired to Aachen. Every group carries its own coordinates and a host anywhere else gets their own town, so the next city is a question of people rather than of code. After that, slowly, the rest of them.
- Now
- Aachen
- Next
- One more city
- The goal
- Everywhere
For venues & organizers
Put yourevent onthe map.
Free to publish. Free to run.
A bar with a quiet Wednesday, a studio with a taster class, a student group with a tournament. Post it on Showup and it reaches people in Aachen who are already looking for something to do this week.
- Get found
- Your event shows up in Discover, on the map, and in this week’s listings, right where people are looking for something to do.
- Know who’s coming
- RSVPs and a seat limit, so you know how many people are coming before you open the doors.
- See what worked
- Check-ins show you who actually turned up, week to week. Handy when you’re planning what to do next.