Stories, but with a point
Share what’s happening right now. Friends tap “omw” straight from your story and the plan writes itself.
Stop asking.Start showing up.
Your people are already out. See where, say omw, pull up.
What you can do
Every “wya?”, answered.
“wya this weekend?”
Start something in a few taps
Name it, drop a pin and a time, add your people. Done before the group chat has caught up. Afterwards, every highlight of the night lands in your gallery, not buried in the chat or stuck on someone’s phone.
“wya free though?”
Let everyone have a say
Date poll, shared playlist, who-brings-what. Decide together without leaving the plan.
“wya, you coming?”
No more “who’s actually coming?”
One tap says you’re in. Everyone sees who’s coming — live.
“wya right now?”
Plan less. Live more.
Post a story from wherever you are. Friends see it on the map, tap omw, and the night comes to you.
“One must still have chaos within oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”— Nietzsche
Out tonight
Somebody’s always already out
Open the app and the room is already filling. Public events from verified venues, ranked by what’s near you and who’s going — the same feed your friends are looking at.
NOW!
Neon Nights
128 going
Today · 23:00
Open Air Techno
74 going
Tomorrow · 20:30
Karaoke Kickback
41 going
Friday · 23:30Midnight Warehouse Rave
210 going
Illustrative of the in-app feed. Real events come from verified venues near you.
See what’s on near you tonight.
Also in the app
The small things that make it work
A map of your people
See where friends are posting from tonight, so meeting up is a tap away instead of a group-chat saga.
Circles for the right crowd
Group your close friends and share plans, stories and attendance with exactly the people who should see them.
Live, not laggy
Real-time notifications when someone’s coming, a poll is settled, or a new event lands nearby.
Yours by default
Control who sees your attendance and profile. wya is built for your people, not for the feed.
Up and running in a minute
Sign in with your number, add a name and photo, find friends from your contacts — and you’re in.
Why we’re building it
Being there beats seeing it
Social apps got very good at showing you the night you didn’t go to. The photos arrive the morning after, from a room twenty minutes from your flat, full of people you know.
We think the interesting problem isn’t capturing the night. It’s the two hours before it — when the group chat is asking “wya”, three people are “maybe”, and the plan quietly dies. That window is where evenings are won or lost, and nothing is built for it.
So that’s what wya is for. See where your people already are, say you’re coming in one tap, and let the plan assemble itself.
Presence over posts.
Nothing here rewards posting. It rewards turning up — the only metric that survives contact with a real Friday night.
Circles, not audiences.
You share with the people who’d actually come, not with a follower count. No algorithm decides who deserves your evening.
The app should end.
Success is you closing wya and being somewhere. We are not trying to win the evening — we’re trying to start it.
Who’s building it
It started with two friends and a cold drink
wya was not designed in a workshop. It came out of the thing we do most: sitting outside somewhere with a cold drink, phones on the table, trying to work out where everyone else had got to.
One of us is German, the other French. We were friends long before we were co-founders, which is the whole reason the app is built around a handful of people who’d actually turn up rather than an audience. Between travelling, chasing decent weather and a group chat that never quite converged, the same thing kept happening — the hard part of a good night was never the night. It was the hour before it.
Nobody had built anything for that hour. So we did, and we’re still building it, two people deep, from Konstanz.
Lars Schlageter
Design, Front-end & Growth · Germany
Designs it, builds the app and the website, and does the talking so people and venues hear about it. Hard to reach on a windy day — he will be out windsurfing.
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Clément Hamada
Backend & Architecture · France
Builds the backend and the architecture the whole thing stands on — the reason it holds up on a Friday night, which is the only night that counts.
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Ready when you are
So — wya this weekend?
Get the app. Then get out there.
For venues & organisers
Be the answer to “wya?”
When the group chat asks where everyone’s at, your event should be the reply. Bars, clubs, promoters and student unions publish from a verified location and land in front of people nearby who are out and deciding right now.
- Publish public events from a verified, real-world location
- Get discovered by users browsing what’s on near them
- See attendance climb live as people tap “I’m coming”
- Track your reach with opens and conversion analytics
