Built around the question: what are we doing tonight? Designed to be invisible the moment you put your phone down.
A casual broadcast: “I am doing this thing, at this place, at this time. Join me.” Ephemeral. Structured. A plan, not a personal ad.
Pings live inside scoped audiences — wider than friends, narrower than the world.
Large community shell. A city pickleball scene, a 300-person church, a campus running club. Pings broadcast to a relevant tribe.
A small group of people you already know. Coordinate with friends without competing with the open Ping pool.
You cannot friend someone you have not actually been in the same room with. Checking in at a Ping venue — by QR or geolocation — is what unlocks the friend-add. The social graph mirrors the physical one.
After a Ping ends, one private question: who was worth meeting again? Hosts confirm who actually came. Answers are never shown to anyone — no public posts, no algorithmic resurfacing.
Each pattern below was a deliberate omission, not an oversight.