gathr

Hey everyone! We're Gathr, a startup solving a process that everyone has struggled with: getting together.

The Problem

The process sucks. You might not even realize it’s such a huge problem, but think back to the last time you tried to go out to dinner with your friends. Did your conversation look something like this?

Any time we want to get together with our friends, we engage in a ton of back and forth, just trying to coordinate the details of that plan.

As you can see above, getting together right now goes something like this - it’s unnecessarily COMPLICATED. This ultimately makes us NOT want to get together at all! And this is just for one plan... but we make plans all the time.

The apps we use right now just don't cut it. We need to use multiple apps in different categories just to solve small slices of this problem. You have messaging apps that get shoehorned into planning apps because there’s no better alternative. You have reservation apps just for finding and booking a table. There are organizing and time structuring apps like calendars. And then there are apps used just for coordinating transportation and splitting the bill. As you can see, the process is extremely disjointed.

That's where we come in. We’re building a product that removes all these obstacles, and consolidates all the solutions in one place.

Gathr is a social events app that uses smart recommendations to help you make plans with friends, and its objective is to seamlessly answer every question surrounding getting together.

How do we do it? With magic of course! Just kidding -- our company philosophy is to combine bleeding-edge machine learning and data-driven UX … to transform the way people interact with their social lives, and make it feel like magic.

Product

A technology we've created that embodies our philosophy is Flashparse. Check out our animation below to see it in action! 

This is how it works: you type a single sentence describing the plan you want to make... and ... Poof! Gathr does everything else for you.

Let’s say all you know is that you want to get “lunch tomorrow.” That’s how most plans start, anyway - with just a vague idea. With Gathr, that’s all you need. 

Then we will fill in the blanks - time recommendations based on your schedule. We know you’re free at 12:30, and Tarun is too. And it turns out, you both like this place called Cava, so we suggest that you go there. These suggestions help you turn those vague ideas into real, actionable plans.

Now that we've built the foundational technology, the possibilities are endless. Our roadmap is going to completely change the way that people get together. 

Future

The old generation of social apps turns users into passive consumers of content. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and others vie for a piece of your attention to generate ad revenue. In other words, they’re trying to profit off of taking away your time.

Gathr is doing the opposite. It’s a social app built around returning your time, your life, to you. Plans are the heart of our app. We profit off of giving you back your time. 

Revenue

Gathr's location recommendations help our users discover local businesses where they can make plans and get together. Those businesses will pay us each month to list group discount deals in our app. By making plans through gathr, our users save money. We offer some of these deals for free to our audience, but if they want to access all of gathr’s discounts, they will pay a monthly subscription fee. We already have a waiting list of over 100 committed businesses in the NYC area.

People get larger discounts the more friends they invite to a plan, which businesses want to incentivize to increase foot traffic. Everyone wins.

Fundraising

You may be asking yourself, why invest now? Here's our answer.

After Covid, people are lonelier and more isolated than ever. The desire to connect with friends and build communities is stronger than ever, but the problems surrounding getting together are still present. It's still difficult to find a time and place. It's still difficult to keep track of your social life. Every step before people actually get together is still difficult. Now is the perfect time for Gathr to meet the needs of a post-Covid society, and flourish. 

Invest now to help us build the future of social from the ground up.

If you're interested, we'd love to chat. Feel free to email us ([email protected]) or ask a question on WeFunder. Thank you for your support!

*Important financial update*

The Company has agreed to, and drafted paperwork to make the following current full-time employees of the Company Board Members: Hojung (Albert) Kim, Tarun Thummala, Saif Billah, Liam DeCoste, and Bryson Greenwood. The changes will be put into effect in April 2022. The Cap table will be adjusted to reflect this:

• Hojung (Albert) Kim will own 2,587,500 shares of common stock 
• Tarun Thummala will own 2,587,500 shares of common stock 
• Saif Billah will own 2,250,000 shares of common stock 
• Liam DeCoste will own 1,912,500 shares of common stock
• Bryson Greenwood will own 1,912,500 shares of common stock

For a total of 11,250,000 shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding. All 5 Board members will have equal voting power.

*Important legal update*

We (Homecooked, Inc.) received a cease and desist letter from another firm, Gathr Films LLC, on March 7, 2022. They requested that we remove our trademark application for Gathr and change our name. They have threatened legal action if we do not comply with their demands.  Because we would rather spend our time building the product that you all (and our 3,500 users) know and love, instead of fighting a drawn out legal battle, we have decided to change our name. 

We've already reached an agreement with the opposing firm — we have until July 31st to fully transition to a new name, and until the end of the year to be able to say “formerly gathr”.