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Blender

Hit blend. Find your next adventure.

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Stop arguing about what to do tonight. Blender takes your group's budget, location, and vibe, then serves up curated local experiences you never knew existed. Everyone votes. Everyone goes. Everyone has fun.

Hit Blend

Friday night. Five friends. Zero ideas.

We all know the feeling. The group chat is blowing up, but nobody can commit to a plan. The same five suggestions get recycled, and the night dies before it starts.

Idea Paralysis

Your mental list of fun things to do is exactly five items long: movies, bowling, dinner, video games, "I don't know, what do you want to do?"

Hidden Gems Stay Hidden

The best local spots and activities are locked away in personal networks. Unless someone tells you about the gas station petting zoo with a zonkey, you will never find it.

Group Indecision Kills Plans

Non-committal friends mumble through suggestions until everyone gives up and just scrolls their phone on the couch instead.

Bored friends on phones

Set your parameters. Hit blend. Go do something amazing.

Blender replaces the endless "what should we do?" loop with a curated, votable experience that gets your group off the couch and out the door.

Friends planning together on phone
1

Set Your Inputs

Tell Blender how many people, your total budget, how far you are willing to travel, and how much time you have. Takes about 10 seconds.

2

Hit Blend

Blender pulls from a locally curated database of activities, events, hidden gems, and group ideas that match your parameters exactly.

3

Vote as a Group

Everyone sees the suggestion on their phone and votes yay or nay. No more non-committal mumbling. You cannot see the next idea until everyone votes.

4

Go Do It

When a suggestion gets unanimous yays, Blender gives you all the details: location, cost breakdown, and tips from other groups who loved it.

Friends at outdoor event Night market food stalls Food and dining experience

Everything your friend group needs

Four core features designed to turn boredom into stories worth telling.

Outdoor hiking adventure

Smart Parameter Matching

Input your group size, budget, travel distance, and available time. Blender filters its entire database to only show what actually works for your crew tonight.

Group of friends voting together

Group Voting System

Everyone votes yay or nay before the next suggestion appears. No more passive scrolling or non-committal shrugs. The app forces a decision, and that is the whole point.

Local community festival

Community-Curated Database

Half the ideas come from our local editorial team. The other half come from users who submit, upvote, and review real experiences. The best gems rise to the top.

Restaurant dining experience

Business Deals Engine

Local businesses create special group offers that surface when your parameters match: "Bring 4 friends, everyone gets free chips and queso." Real deals, not generic coupons.

Crowd at nighttime event

A massive market waiting for a better answer

The local experiences market is enormous. Millions of young adults spend billions on entertainment every month, yet the tools to discover what to do are still terrible.

$100B+
U.S. local experiences and activities market
72M
Millennials and Gen Z adults spending on entertainment monthly
$200
Average monthly spend per person on entertainment and dining
Young adults (16 to 30) looking for weekend plans
Friend groups tired of the same five activities
Couples seeking date night inspiration
Families hunting for affordable weekend fun

Ready to stop being bored?

Join the waitlist and be the first to blend when we launch in your city.

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The blueprint to bring Blender to life

A detailed look at how Blender makes money, reaches users, and grows from a single city to a national platform.

Revenue Model

Promoted activity placements from local businesses pay to appear in relevant blends. Restaurants, venues, and event organizers create custom group offers (e.g., "4 people, free drinks with entrees"). Secondary revenue through affiliate links for at-home activity suggestions and in-app advertising.

Go-to-Market Strategy

Launch in a single metro area (Salt Lake City) with one intern curating 500+ activities. Seed the app through college campus ambassadors and Instagram. Prove engagement metrics locally, then replicate the playbook city by city. No need for a national network effect to deliver value on day one.

Competitive Advantage

Unlike event listing sites that aggregate concerts and shows, Blender curates verified, locally tested experiences from gas station petting zoos to free holiday light displays. The group voting mechanic solves social friction, not just discovery. Hyper-local depth beats broad, shallow national coverage.

Year One Milestones

  • Launch in Salt Lake City metro with 500+ curated activities and 5,000 active users
  • Onboard 50 local businesses running promoted placements and group deals
  • Achieve 30% monthly retention rate and expand to a second metro area

Key Risks

  • Social planning apps have historically struggled to gain traction, with many failing to reach critical mass
  • Maintaining a high-quality, locally curated activity database requires ongoing effort and does not scale automatically
  • User-generated content quality may vary, and moderation at scale could become a challenge

Estimated Startup Cost

From idea to MVP, including app development, initial database curation, and local marketing.

$30,000 to $75,000