nado

Others ask, "Who's in?" You say: nado.

nado finds students at your school who want to do the same thing as you,in your next free hour, and opens the plan for you. No host. No profiles. No empty events.

na·do · /ˈnɑː.doʊ/ · 나도 means "me too" in Korean.

Live app · Interactive prototype

For judges, in 30 seconds

• Problem: you want to do something now, and nobody's free. Asking strangers feels awkward, so nobody asks. → Why nado
• What it does: you pick up to 3 interests and share your class schedule. Every minute, nado finds other students who want the same thing and are free in the next four hours, then invites everyone at once. → How it works
• Not Meetup: nobody hosts, nobody browses, and a plan only exists once enough people already fit it. → How it's different
• Claude: reads your Albert screenshot, understands any interest you type, picks a campus meeting spot, writes the invite, and asks the first question. Code, not Claude, decides who meets whom. → How we use Claude
• Try it: sign in with any @nyu.edu address. It's a demo, so any 6-digit code works. → Try the demo

1. Why nado
2. How it's different
3. How it works (for students)
4. Under the hood (matching, plan life cycle, rules)
5. How we use Claude
6. Where Claude could go wrong
7. Data model (what's in the database)
8. Try the demo (what's real, what's simulated)
9. Run it locally
10. Project structure
11. Known limits

Words we use

Word	Meaning
Plan	An invitation nado opens for you: an activity, a time in the next four hours, and a meeting spot.
Nado!	Your "me too." Tapping it puts the plan in your Groups tab.
Confirm	The second tap, before the deadline. When everyone confirms (or enough people have by the deadline), the plan becomes a room.
Room	The confirmed meetup: where to meet, who's coming (by nickname), quick replies, and the find-each-other game.
Sample students	800 generated NYU students, so there's someone to match with during the demo. See what's simulated.

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Why nado

We're four Korean exchange students, and we kept living the same moment:

"I want to do something right now, but there's no one to do it with."

• 🏀 One of us had a free hour and badly wanted to play basketball. Nobody was free.
• 🎭 One of us went to a musical alone, because none of us cared about musicals.
• 🇰🇷 Slowly, we only hung out with other Koreans, because it was easy.

So why not just ask strangers? In practice, nobody does:

• Nowhere to ask. Thousands of students are around you, but there's no place to ask the ones who'd say yes.
• The profile trap. With strangers, you look at the profile first: face, looks, nationality. That's how bubbles form.
• The host burden. Whoever speaks first becomes the organizer: the place, the waiting, the small talk.

The insight: few people ask, but far more would say "me too" if someone did. They just never see the question.

Back home, this moment has a one-word answer. A friend says "I'm craving boba," and you say "나도!" (nado): "me too!" No planning, no hosting, no asking first. Abroad, there was nobody around to say it. So we built the thing that asks for you, and lets you just say nado.

Right now, not someday

"Getting kind of hungry... anyone up for pizza?"

That thought lasts about ten minutes. So spontaneity is the core of nado, not a feature:

• The next four hours only. No calendars, no "next Saturday?"
• Built around the end of class. A plan can start the minute your class lets out: "Right after MATH-UA 121."
• Always fresh. Matching runs every minute, on the minute.
• One hour, two taps. Nado!, then Confirm. You're giving up your next free hour, not your weekend. That makes "me too" easy, even to strangers.

How it's different

	✨ nado	Meetup · Pie	Timeleft · 222	Fizz · Sidechat
What it is	Plans for your next free hour	Event listings	Dinners and outings with matched strangers	Anonymous campus feeds
Starts from	What you want to do	An event someone hosts	A personality quiz	Posts
Who sets it up?	No one. nado opens the plan; you can't even create one.	An organizer (Pie also pays local hosts)	The service picks the group and the venue	Whoever posts
Do you browse?	No. A plan that fits your next free hour, or nothing.	Yes, a list of events	No. You book a date (Timeleft) or wait for an invite (222)	Yes, a feed
When	Within the next 4 hours	Scheduled ahead	Set dates the service runs	Anytime (online)
Where	Your campus, minutes from class	Around the city (Meetup also online)	Restaurants and venues in the city	Online
Too few people?	Never opens. A plan exists only once enough people fit it.	Up to the organizer	The event can be cancelled	Not an events app

Based on each service's public descriptions, October 2026.

Others start with a host, a quiz, or a post. We start with what you want to do and when you're free. You choose boba and meet the people behind the nicknames when you get there.

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