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Aditi Sharma
Pre-Seed
United States
Consumer, Media & Entertainment, Other, AI
2025
Ode creates value by solving a coordination failure: people constantly want to do things - grab coffee, catch a movie, try a hobby - but don't, because they have no one to do them with. We match that intent with nearby people who want the same thing at the same time, turning latent demand into real-world plans. Our users are 18–30s without an established local circle, starting with college students and expanding to professionals in new cities. From the local supply side: hyper-local intent ads - when someone posts "coffee run nearby in 20 minutes," they've declared exactly what they want, where, and when, making this the highest-intent ad inventory in social (a café reaching people who just announced they want coffee) - and affiliate partnerships with the venues, classes, and experiences ode already sends groups to, taking a cut of bookings we're already driving. Sequencing matters: none of these turn on until a campus has liquidity, because monetizing a marketplace before it's dense kills it.

Food takes 10 minutes. A ride takes 3. A date takes 30 seconds. But someone to actually do something with? Doesn't exist - until ode. Post what you want to do; we match you with nearby people who want it too. Live on iOS/Android/web: 445 users, 44 meetups, 68% of users come back.