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Make 3 close friends within a 5-minute walk.

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Smoothly join or host IRL (in real life) hang-outs with neighbors.

2 Here people chilling out together, listening as one jams on a guitar
Chilling Out
A living room with a couch and a TV with a game playing. On the couch are 3 Here people, one with a foam finger.
Watching
5 Here people, 4 players in their costumes and 1 Dungeon master, sit at a table in a room decorated with D&D themed stuff like a big map, shield and crossed axes
Gaming
3 Here people with chef symbols in their centers surround a potluck table. 1 Here person stands behind a grill, waving a spatula.
Eating
2 Here people working on a project together. A neighborhood clubhouse complete with a nice flower patch. 1 Here person has a trowel up and construction gear on and is working on a wall. One Here person has gardening gear on and a spade in hand and is digging in the flower patch.
Doing the Thing

You are not limited to these hang-out types. In fact, the only limits are your imagination...
well, and that bothersome real-life stuff that doesn't always cooperate.

How?

Through de-frictioning neighborly meets and hangouts, Joelio helps you build those IRL connections waiting just outside your door, every day.

A drawing of Joelio's join screen, with a map of a neighborhood and several here people indicating hangouts to join at different homes.

Look! See? RSVP.

Joelio makes finding your next neighborly hangout as easy as looking at a neighborhood map and clicking once.

Set your hangout defaults (who, what, how long, kids ok, games!, etc.) one time. Then, click and go from there on out.

Want a custom experience? Just change up your choices, check out the map, and find your best IRL connect for right then and there.

Hangouts include etiquette, from notification to leave, and BYO instructions. So, you are never left hanging.
Joelio's prototype screen for quickly and easily setting up a wine and cheese hangout.

Who What When Where... Wine

Joelio makes finding your next neighborly hangout as easy as looking at a neighborhood map and clicking once.

Set your hangout defaults (who, what, how long, kids ok, games!, etc.) one time. Then, click and go from there on out.

Want a custom experience? Just change up your choices, check out the neighborhood, and find your best IRL connect, right then and there.

Hangouts include etiquette, from notification to leave, and BYO instructions. So, you are never left hanging.
A drawing of Joelio's adventure screen, with a map of a neighborhood and a Here person walking down a street. A menu indicates the phone holder can choose to invite or join the adventure mode person.

Go (safely) Wild with Adventure Mode!

I'm coming out, so you better get this party started!

In the days of yesteryear, you would walk out of your house and be well on your way to adventure. Now, we live in highly insulated climate controlled boxes and have everything delivered. Even answering or knocking on a neighborly door is most often a regimented affair.

Click adventure. Go on a walk. Bring random into your life (with Joelio smoothing out some of its bumps.)Joelio tells the people you want told that you're out and makes it easy to hop into a hang-out. They can join you on an adventure. Or invite you over. Got a guitar? I have a song.

A drawing of for Here people gathered around a water cooler. Each has a maker related interest indicated and is wearing a mask to indicate pseudonymity.

Easily & Safely Discover Your People

In Joelio, you can let your whole identity hang out, all the time or wear randomized masks on verified identities, as suits you best. So suited, you can find people in several ways:

  • At any time you can make use of robust interest, verification and other filters to find your people and best IRL hangouts on-demand.
  • It's the network! When you add someone as a friend, you can send a short list of 2-5 interests. If they know someone else with the same, the system helps introductions, masked or in-person, happen.
  • We also randomly group you around a virtual water cooler, once a month, with four new people, each of you masked. Chat & make friends or yeet on out. Take the best connects IRL.
1 Here person in an anonymous mask to indicate pseudonymity.

Who will you be?

In Joelio, you are in full control of your identity.

Strong pseudonymity means you are masked everywhere in Joelio that you want to be, and you don't have to wear the same mask twice. Unmask as much as you want to, when you want to.

You can take peer verifications (like proof that you are a real person, that you love purple socks and more) with you between your masked pseudo-identities and share those - or not - exactly as you want to.

You will know the people you interact with have at least the verifications they share with you, too.

A drawing of Joelio's map screen, with one Here person indicating distress and two here people indicating different types of help they can provide quickly.

Safety in Community

Emergent event got you sweating? Quickly reach out to those around you!

Joelio includes a basic emergency communications network with your neighbors to help you get good Samaritan help that can get to you fast.

Place pseudonymous or full reveal requests for help and quickly share your location and any details you can with those specific people or verified types you have picked, from friends to medical pros to the whole neighborhood.

And we never creep on you...

Here person in suspicious spy gear peeping out from a door. Around this is a big NO circle with a line diagonally through it.

In fact, we can't. From login to hang out, we never see your data.
You are in full control of your neighborly digital self and its real life connections.

[Privacy/security details coming soon.]

Plus, we provide some cool tools for neighborly harmony!

Here person in suspicious spy gear peeping out from a door. Around this is a big NO circle with a line diagonally through it.

In fact, we can't. From login to hang out, we never see your data.
You are in full control of your neighborly digital self and its real life connections.

[Privacy/security details coming soon.]
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