Late support opens once the campaign closes.
You'll be able to support as a late founding member at slightly higher prices once the live campaign closes. Live numbers below.
The live campaign closed on 10 June. Late support remains open through 31 July 2026 to capture supporters who heard about the project after launch. Late-support prices are 10–20% higher than live-campaign prices — that's standard practice and keeps the live campaign feeling like the deal it was. Delivery dates are unchanged: digital rewards activate within a few weeks, physical rewards ship from Q3 2026.
Hookup apps today suck. Let's build an alternative.
The dominant platforms optimize for profit, not connection. Grindr hammers us with ads to sell expensive premium subscriptions. Sniffies just sold itself out to a greedy dating app monopoly. Both put profit before the community.
It doesn't have to be this way. Meetmarket is designed for and by you, fueling hot encounters and a network of interesting new friends. Together, we are creating something based on trust, rather than lonely hookups for corporate greed.
Our prototype went viral last April. Over 60,000 people signed up to our minimal website. This campaign funds the next year of development and a full app in the stores — with a clear plan for member governance and reinvestment into the IRL spaces that make queer culture worth fighting for.
Are you hungry for an alternative?
Are you willing to help it become real?
Hot hookups, intriguing new friends.
No ads. Fees reinvest in app development and community initiatives, voted on by you.
Grid. Nearby profiles. Nearest first, no premium boost, no algorithmic ranking.
Map. People, events, and IRL venues shown geographically.
Profiles. Photo, display name, age, bio, tags. Multiple albums at the paid tier. Show as much or as little as you want.
Encrypted DMs. End-to-end encrypted. Your conversations stay between you. Not scanned, not monetised, not used to train an AI boyfriend.
Artist sticker packs. Launching with HOMORPHOLOGICAL FREEDOM by Carlos Sáez.
The scene tab. Queer culture beyond the grid — channels, threads, and what's on tonight.
Channels. Persistent group chats by city, interest, and kink. Moderators, history, regulars. Lurk before you join in.
Threads. Posts that stay up. Read them weeks later, reply when you're ready.
IRL events. Parties, openings, and meetups. Some funded by your subscription.
Get in by introduction. Verified members vouch for new ones. Every account traces back to a real person.
Accept the invite. Scan, see who's bringing you in, and join their corner of the scene.
The chain. First-degree, second-degree, scene-wide. You can see the chain that brought you in.
Moderation in the open. Moderators are visible. Logs are public. Bans come with explanations.
Privacy by design. Identity lives on your device. We collect the minimum needed to run the app. The promises are enforced by how the app is built, not by a policy page.
Hot hookups, intriguing new friends.
- No ads. Fees reinvest in app development and community initiatives, voted on by you.
- End-to-end encrypted messages. Your conversations stay private, and your desires unmonetized.
- Maps not algorithms. No corporation decides who deserves to be seen. You do, transparently.
- Personal profiles, unhinged chatrooms. In-app features, from customizable profile pages to anonymous groups, recall the best of the early internet.
- Community verification. Meetmarket grows on personal endorsements, building trust and an interconnected scene along the way.
Maps, not algorithms.
IRL events, unhinged chatrooms.
Community verification.
An international network of hotties you actually want to meet.
Meet freaks who already know what good sex is. A grid that's ready for action.
Join a self-selecting and engaged network for cultural exchange and fun.
Online chatrooms, plus meetups and parties, bring together open-minded groups looking to explore.
Meetmarket is designed with its community in mind. Here are five ways it’s superior, because faggots like us deserve better.
No Ads
Meetmarket is a self-supporting community based on the buy-in of its members at an affordable monthly rate, starting at 12 euros. While other apps clog you with ads unless you pay, we provide an un-enshittified community space you actually want to be a part of.
Trust
Our community is verified horizontally to keep out the bots, catfishers, and timewasters. Building out from a core network of friends in Berlin, Meetmarket is a self-selecting, international network that you can trust.
IRL is the point
Hookup apps are good at hollowing scenes out. While meeting in the app is the start, connecting IRL, in places we collectively keep alive, is the point. Through in-app channels, groups, event listings plus IRL interest-based meetups and parties, Meetmarket is designed to build a scene, not kill one.
The Scene Fund
A share of subscription revenue funds the bars, parties, bookshops, and art spaces that make a scene what it is. The Scene Fund is how we put money back into the community spaces that hold queer life together. Founding members will help decide where the Scene Fund goes. Allocations are public. Reporting is public. We aim to direct 15–20% of revenue into the scene over five years, starting with Berlin and extending city by city as membership grows.
No selling out
Founding members have the opportunity to input on a range of sexy matters, from the app’s name and branding to new software updates. Meetmarket is also structured to prevent changes not in the community’s interest, such as a sale to an extractive buyer. These guarantees are detailed in the FAQ below, ensuring our long-term commitment to you.
Calum Bowden aka @donjackoghue.
I started Meetmarket because I wanted a hookup app that me, my friends, and my community would actually enjoy using. Why are they all so shit, tacky and cringe? We deserve an app that doesn't only see us as products to be sold to advertisers or straight billionaires.
With no help or funding, I launched the Meetmarket prototype at the end of March expecting 300 people to test it. I was gagged when 15k of you showed up in 24 hours. Six weeks later over 60k people have signed up. Now I know how hungry for an alternative you are. This crowdfund is how I'm going to build the app we deserve.
I've been obsessed with digital platforms for 20 years. In high school I ran an anonymous gossip site inspired by Gossip Girl that was popular enough to earn me a cease and desist from the town police.
Since then, I've been asking who decides what gets built, for who, and why. My undergrad thesis in Anthropology was on Google. I'm now doing a PhD on how technology organises society.
I'm also a designer and builder. At Strelka Institute, I developed alternatives to ad-funded platform economics. At Black Swan DAO, I spent three years building voting tools and running governance simulations that put people inside real decision-making instead of just reading about it. I've led participatory design workshops at New Inc, HEK Basel, CTM, and Gray Area, helping communities prototype their own institutions. And I co-founded Trust.support e.V., a Berlin 'network of utopian conspirators' with over a thousand members that runs Quests, a year-long fellowship for people building alternative technologies and institutions.
Still available.
Late-support prices are 10–20% higher than live-campaign prices. Card charged immediately at checkout. 14-day refund window.
- Updates by email
- Discord access
- Everything in Supporter
- Lifetime ad-free
- Founding member badge
- Early access to new features
- Everything above
- Reserved @handle of your choice
- Priority access to new features
- Everything above
- Lifetime premium access
- Berlin launch party invite
- Name in app credits
- Everything above
- Dinner with the founder in Berlin
- Monthly product call for 1 year
- Signed thank-you
- Everything above
- 1-on-1 strategy session with founder
- Acknowledged as Founding Patron in press
- Custom thank-you experience
Where we've been, where we're going.
Founding member tiers go live. The chat opens at the same time.
After this, founding member rates are gone.
Incorporation, hiring, and the build.
Native on iOS and Android. Grid, map, profiles, encrypted messages, groups. Founding members get their lifetime access. Scene Fund seeded.
Introductions, channels, threads, events. The first Scene Fund parties and events happen.
Meetmarket is fully live. Public reporting. The Scene Fund moving city by city.
Questions
Late support open through 31 July.
After that, founding-member tiers close for good.