Mayz
Mayz is a hosting platform that makes it effortless to host or join gatherings at home, using food as a catalyst for meaningful conversation. The platform handles invitations, RSVPs, dietary notes, reminders, and calendar integration, while hosts set the date, seat count, and price. Every guest brings one trusted +1, ensuring the table always contains new people but never a stranger to everyone.
- Events
- Social Networking
- Software Only
Funding
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Algorithms optimized for reach have broken human connection, leaving people isolated despite being digitally connected. Younger and older generations report the highest loneliness levels, yet rarely share a table together. Traditional matching apps fail because matches don't build belonging—only real-world gatherings do.
Solution
Mayz is a hosting platform that makes it effortless to host or join gatherings at home, with food as a catalyst for conversation. Hosts set the date, number of seats, price, and what guests bring, while Mayz handles invitations, RSVPs, dietary notes, reminders, and calendar integration. Every guest brings one trusted +1, ensuring the table always contains new people but never a stranger to everyone. The platform includes conversation starter prompts and hosting guidance based on single-conversation dinner formats like Jefferson dinners. Hosts can price their tables to cover costs or earn income, and guests see the price before requesting a seat.
Target Audience
Primary users are individuals seeking meaningful in-person connection, including empty nesters, stay-at-home parents, professionals, travelers, and neighbors across generations, particularly Gen Z and Baby Boomers.
Features
- Guest confirmation system with one-degree-of-separation networking: each guest brings a trusted +1, ensuring no stranger is unknown to everyone
- Automated event logistics: invites, RSVPs, dietary collection, reminders, auto-fill from waitlists, and calendar integration
- Host-set pricing for each table, with payments collected at seat confirmation and released after the event
- Conversation starter question and hosting guide prompts sent before the event, drawing on Jefferson dinner formats and The Art of Gathering principles
- Structured table rules: one conversation, phones away, no politics or religion, and discretion for what's said at the table