When. Where.
And who brings
what.
Six people, four calendars, one group chat that never converges. Tap the times that work for you and the group's answer ranks itself. Venues are scored so the longest drive in the group counts for more than the average. Then the plan locks, everyone is told once, and the jobs that come with it get an owner.
The average is
the wrong
objective.
Pick the venue with the shortest average drive and the group can still land somewhere one person has to cross the whole city for — averaging hides the outlier by construction. MeetupIQ weights the worst case instead: the longest drive in the group is 70% of a venue's score, the average is 30%.
Ranked by the longest drive
Every candidate venue scores the longest drive in the group at 70% and the average at 30%; lowest score wins. Nobody gets quietly volunteered for the long haul.
Vote the times, not the thread
Someone proposes the candidate times; everyone taps the ones that work for them. Slots rank by how many picked them, earliest start breaking ties — without a single "does Thursday work?" message.
Invite-only, per-event pins
A group is readable only by its own members, and your pin lives on one event: only that event's invitees can read it, only you can write yours, and nothing is kept across events.
Locks in, then tells everyone
Locking the winner writes the plan and pushes and emails it to everyone with a calendar invite attached — exactly once, no duplicate blast. The decision is the output.
The plan comes with a to-do list
A task carries a title, a due date, a note and a checklist, and goes to one person, several, or nobody — left open for anyone to claim. A separate what to bring list lets people claim an item one at a time, so two people never turn up with the ice.
The group votes on where, too
The ranking is a suggestion. The group ticks any subset of venues, anyone adds a Google Place or a custom venue, and consensus nudges the organiser.
Decide by
Set a deadline and an hourly job closes the poll, locks the top slot and fires the once-only confirmation, whether or not anyone remembers.
One tap for the stragglers
A nudge goes only to the people missing an RSVP, a pin or a vote, by push and email, with a five-minute cooldown. A task can be nudged the same way.
Directions after the lock
Once the plan locks, every member gets a driving ETA and directions to the venue from their own pin.
Sample data Drawn procedurally in your browser — no screenshots, no stock imagery. The gala, the group and the venue scores are made up to show the layout.
Who's coming?
Toggle who's in. The ranking recomputes on the group that is still in — drop the people on one side of the map and watch the longest trip, and the gap to the next-best venue, move.
Fairness map · commute from each attendee
The group Sample data
Commute here is straight-line distance at city speed on an invented map — a toy that ranks on the longest trip alone; the product blends it 70/30 with the average. In the product it is Google Distance Matrix driving time from every attendee's pin to every candidate venue, so it follows the road network rather than a straight line.
Drag anyone.
Five people, five directions. The grey dot is the plain average of where everyone stands; the coloured one is the fair meeting point, chosen to shorten the worst distance rather than the mean. Drag someone to the edge and watch the two come apart.
Sample data Five invented positions on a blank grid. The readouts are straight-line distances in grid squares, not travel time — the point is the gap between the fair point and the average, which is the same gap the product's 70/30 score is built to close.
Optimize the
worst case.
MeetupIQ is a small optimizer with a strong opinion about the objective function: the longest drive in the group outweighs the average, and every pin stays scoped to the one event it was dropped on.