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City Guides

Best Places to Meet New People in Midland, Texas

The Ontaym Team · 18 min read

City Guides

Best Places to Meet New People in Brookings, SD

The Ontaym Team · 21 min read

City Guides

Best Places to Meet New People in Flower Mound, TX

The Ontaym Team · 16 min read

City Guides

Best Places to Meet New People in Frisco, Texas

The Ontaym Team · 21 min read

City Guides

Best Places to Meet New People in Johns Creek, Georgia

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

City Guides

Best Places to Meet New People in Monowi, Nebraska

The Ontaym Team · 15 min read

City Guides

Best Places to Meet New People in Rochester Hills, Michigan

The Ontaym Team · 21 min read

City Guides

Best Places to Meet New People in Sioux Falls

The Ontaym Team · 23 min read

Event Planning

Average Meetup Size by Event Type: What the Evidence Supports

The Ontaym Team · 17 min read

Attendance & RSVPs

The RSVP Tools That Don't Make Guests Sign Up First

The Ontaym Team · 14 min read

Community & Group Organizing

A Code of Conduct Is an Exit Sign

The Ontaym Team · 16 min read

Sponsorship & Funding

A Sponsorship Tier Is a Filter, Not a Menu

The Ontaym Team · 15 min read

Feedback & Measurement

A Survey Is a Favour, Priced in Minutes

The Ontaym Team · 15 min read

Community & Group Organizing

A Title Means Nothing Until It's Attached to a Permission

The Ontaym Team · 15 min read

Attendance & RSVPs

An RSVP Is a Sentence. It Was Never a Signature

The Ontaym Team · 16 min read

Event Production & Logistics

The Agenda Is for the Room. The Run-of-Show Is for Everyone the Room Never Sees

The Ontaym Team · 16 min read

Staffing & Logistics

There's No Ratio for How Many Staff You Need

The Ontaym Team · 15 min read

Capacity & Waitlists

What Airlines Already Know About Telling People No

The Ontaym Team · 15 min read

Registration & Ticketing

What a $0.99 Ticket Does That a Free One Can't

The Ontaym Team · 14 min read

Community & Group Organizing

Your First Meetup Isn't the Test. Your Second One Is

The Ontaym Team · 17 min read

Cross-Platform Event Coordination

A Group Chat Is Not an Event, and Never Was

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Messaging Features vs Event Features

A Message About an Event Is Not the Same as an Invitation

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Messaging Features vs Event Features

An RSVP and a Group Chat Reaction Are Not the Same Thing

The Ontaym Team · 12 min read

Discord Communities & Events

Discord Events vs Dedicated Event Pages

The Ontaym Team · 14 min read

Discord Communities & Events

Discord Events: What Happens After Someone Says Interested?

The Ontaym Team · 14 min read

Discord Communities & Events

Discord Polls vs Actual Event Commitments

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Event Ideas

Event Ideas for Adults, By Category

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Ideas

Event Ideas for Every Occasion

The Ontaym Team · 14 min read

Cross-Platform Event Coordination

Event Notifications vs Group Chat Notifications

The Ontaym Team · 12 min read

Cross-Platform Event Coordination

Event Reminders vs "Don't Forget" Group Texts

The Ontaym Team · 12 min read

Discord Communities & Events

How Discord Communities Can Track Real Attendance

The Ontaym Team · 15 min read

Discord Communities & Events

How Discord Event Information Gets Lost in Active Servers

The Ontaym Team · 14 min read

Discord Communities & Events

How Discord Servers Can Organize Real-World Events

The Ontaym Team · 14 min read

Privacy & Social Boundaries

How Event Invitations Can Protect Everyone's Privacy

The Ontaym Team · 12 min read

Discord Communities & Events

How Gaming Communities Organize Real-World Meetups

The Ontaym Team · 14 min read

Telegram Event Coordination

How Telegram Communities Can Handle Real-World Meetups

The Ontaym Team · 14 min read

Telegram Event Coordination

How Telegram Groups Handle Event Coordination

The Ontaym Team · 15 min read

Messaging Apps and Event Coordination

How a GroupMe Actually Runs a Team's Whole Season

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Migration & Planning Workflows

How to Combine Chat Apps With Dedicated Event Tools

The Ontaym Team · 14 min read

GroupMe, iMessage, Messenger & Signal

How to Coordinate People Who Use Different Messaging Apps

The Ontaym Team · 15 min read

Cross-Platform Event Coordination

How to Create One Source of Truth for a Group Event

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Privacy & Social Boundaries

How to Invite People Without Creating Another Group Chat

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Privacy & Social Boundaries

How to Invite People Without Exposing Their Phone Numbers

The Ontaym Team · 12 min read

Telegram Event Coordination

How to Keep Event Information Organized in a Telegram Group

The Ontaym Team · 14 min read

WhatsApp Event Planning

How to Manage Event Changes When Everyone Has Different WhatsApp Messages

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Telegram Event Coordination

How to Move a Telegram Community From Discussion to Real-World Events

The Ontaym Team · 14 min read

Migration & Planning Workflows

How to Move an Event From WhatsApp to a Dedicated Event Page

The Ontaym Team · 14 min read

WhatsApp Event Planning

How to Organize an Event Without Creating a WhatsApp Group

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Migration & Planning Workflows

How to Plan a Corporate Event Your Team Will Actually Enjoy

The Ontaym Team · 15 min read

WhatsApp Event Planning

How to Plan a Group Activity Without 200 WhatsApp Messages

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Migration & Planning Workflows

How to Plan a Group Event Without the Chaos

The Ontaym Team · 15 min read

Privacy & Social Boundaries

How to Plan a Whole Event Without Sharing Contact Information

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

WhatsApp Event Planning

How to Stop Important Event Details From Getting Buried in WhatsApp

The Ontaym Team · 14 min read

WhatsApp Event Planning

How to Track Who Is Actually Coming From a WhatsApp Conversation

The Ontaym Team · 14 min read

Discord Communities & Events

How to Turn a Discord Community Into an Offline Community

The Ontaym Team · 15 min read

WhatsApp Event Planning

How to Turn a WhatsApp Conversation Into an Organized Event

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Migration & Planning Workflows

How to Use Messaging Apps for Conversation and Ontaym for Coordination

The Ontaym Team · 14 min read

Cross-Platform Event Coordination

One Party, Three Group Chats: WhatsApp, Telegram and Discord

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Cross-Platform Event Coordination

Planning an Event When Nobody Uses the Same App

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Privacy & Social Boundaries

Private Event Links vs Group Chats

The Ontaym Team · 11 min read

Messaging Features vs Event Features

RSVP Etiquette: A Guide for Hosts and Guests

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Messaging Apps and Event Coordination

Signal Groups Are Built to Forget. Your Event Plan Needs to Stay

The Ontaym Team · 12 min read

Telegram Event Coordination

Telegram Group Planning: Chat vs Structured Event Information

The Ontaym Team · 14 min read

Telegram Event Coordination

Telegram Polls vs Dedicated Event Decisions

The Ontaym Team · 14 min read

Messaging Features vs Event Features

The Difference Between a Conversation and an Event Object

The Ontaym Team · 15 min read

Discord Communities & Events

The Gap Between Discord Membership and Real-World Participation

The Ontaym Team · 14 min read

Cross-Platform Event Coordination

The Missing Layer Between Messaging Apps and Event Platforms

The Ontaym Team · 14 min read

Telegram Event Coordination

The Missing Layer Between Telegram Communities and Offline Events

The Ontaym Team · 15 min read

Cross-Platform Event Coordination

The Moment a WeChat Group Gets Too Large to Plan In

The Ontaym Team · 12 min read

Privacy & Social Boundaries

The Privacy Problem With Large WhatsApp Groups

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Cross-Platform Event Coordination

The Problem With Having Event Information Across Multiple Apps

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Privacy & Social Boundaries

The Psychology of Why Group Plans Fall Apart

The Ontaym Team · 15 min read

Cross-Platform Event Coordination

The Real Reason Events Fall Apart Across Messaging Apps

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Cross-Platform Event Coordination

Three WeChat Groups, Three Saturdays That Nearly Fell Apart

The Ontaym Team · 12 min read

Cross-Platform Event Coordination

Turning a WeChat Community Into an Actual Saturday

The Ontaym Team · 12 min read

Messaging Features vs Event Features

What Actually Happens When Someone Changes Their RSVP

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Migration & Planning Workflows

What Doodle Does Brilliantly, and Where It Stops

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Messaging Apps and Event Coordination

What GroupMe Is Built For, and Where Event Planning Tools Take Over

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Event Coordination Fundamentals

What Happens When a Phone Number Becomes Your Event Identity

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Telegram Event Coordination

What Happens When a Telegram Event Has Hundreds of Participants?

The Ontaym Team · 15 min read

WhatsApp Event Planning

What Happens to Event Information When a WhatsApp Group Gets Huge?

The Ontaym Team · 14 min read

Messaging Apps and Event Coordination

What Messenger Groups Actually Do for Community Event Planning

The Ontaym Team · 12 min read

WeChat Event Coordination

What Super Apps Still Haven't Solved: Planning Between Friends

The Ontaym Team · 14 min read

WeChat Event Coordination

What a WeChat Group Is For, and What an Event Page Is For

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

WeChat Event Coordination

What a WeChat Poll Actually Tells You, and What It Doesn't

The Ontaym Team · 12 min read

WhatsApp Event Planning

WhatsApp Event Planning: What Happens When Someone Joins Late?

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Messaging Features vs Event Features

WhatsApp Polls vs Event Polls: What's the Difference?

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Migration & Planning Workflows

When Should a Group Stop Using WhatsApp for Event Planning?

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Messaging Apps and Event Coordination

When Your Group Is Split Across WhatsApp and iMessage

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Privacy & Social Boundaries

Why Adding Someone to a Group Chat Is Awkward

The Ontaym Team · 12 min read

Cross-Platform Event Coordination

Why Any Event With More Than One Channel Drifts Out of Sync

The Ontaym Team · 12 min read

Privacy & Social Boundaries

Why Attending One Event Shouldn't Mean Joining a Community

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Discord Communities & Events

Why Discord Is Excellent for Communities but Complicated for Offline Plans

The Ontaym Team · 15 min read

Messaging Features vs Event Features

Why Emoji Reactions Make Bad Attendance Records

The Ontaym Team · 12 min read

Messaging Features vs Event Features

Why Going Is Different From Answering a Poll

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Cross-Platform Event Coordination

Why Messaging Apps Were Never Designed to Be Event Databases

The Ontaym Team · 15 min read

Privacy & Social Boundaries

Why Not Everyone Wants to Join Another Group Chat

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Product

Why Ontaym Isn't Just Another Calendar App

The Ontaym Team · 12 min read

Messaging Apps and Event Coordination

Why Privacy-Minded Signal Groups Still Struggle to Meet in Person

The Ontaym Team · 12 min read

WeChat Event Coordination

Why Recurring WeChat Groups Wear Themselves Out

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Telegram Event Coordination

Why Telegram Channels and Groups Are Different for Event Communication

The Ontaym Team · 14 min read

Telegram Event Coordination

Why Telegram Polls Don't Tell You Who Will Actually Attend

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

WeChat Group Coordination

Why WeChat Group Chats Become Difficult for Event Coordination

The Ontaym Team · 14 min read

WhatsApp Event Planning

Why WhatsApp Groups Become Messy When Planning Events

The Ontaym Team · 15 min read

WhatsApp Event Planning

Why WhatsApp Is Great for Chatting but Bad for Structured Event Planning

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Cross-Platform Event Coordination

Why Your Conversation Identity Shouldn't Be Your Invitation Identity

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Migration & Planning Workflows

Why Your RSVP Form Stops Being True by Thursday

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Cross-Platform Event Coordination

Why Your WeChat Thread Cannot Hold an Address

The Ontaym Team · 11 min read

Cross-Platform Event Coordination

Why a Link to the Event Beats a Forwarded Message

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Messaging Apps and Event Coordination

Why a Messenger Conversation Never Becomes an Event Record

The Ontaym Team · 12 min read

Cross-Platform Event Coordination

Why a Screenshot Dies the Moment It Leaves the App

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Messaging Apps and Event Coordination

Why iMessage Groups Struggle to Hold a Whole Wedding Weekend

The Ontaym Team · 13 min read

Messaging Apps and Event Coordination

iMessage Group Threads Versus the Actual Event Object

The Ontaym Team · 12 min read

Product

Why Ontaym Isn't Just Another Calendar App

The Ontaym Team · 6 min read