Something's happening within a five-minute walk
Almost always. A set, a terrace filling up, a quiz night short one team. The problem isn't distance — it's that you don't see it in time.
Something’s happening within a five-minute walk of you, almost always. Not a festival. Something smaller: a set that just started, a terrace filling up, a quiz night short one team. It’s there. It’s close. And you usually hear about it afterwards.
The decision happens on the sofa
Most evenings aren’t decided out in the city — they’re decided at home, in five minutes with a phone. Should we go out? Where? Is there space? Has it started?
If the answer takes more than a quick look, the night often ends on the same sofa. Not because there’s nothing to do, but because there’s no clear now.
Close is useless if it’s invisible
A five-minute walk doesn’t matter if the information lives in a group you’re not in, on a poster two blocks away, or in a feed that prefers something in another city.
Proximity without visibility is just geography. What matters is whether a place can say what it’s like right now to someone who isn’t there yet.
What you actually want to know
You rarely need a long description. You want three things:
- What’s happening here?
- What’s it like right now?
- Can I join?
That’s the information that gets you into your shoes. The rest — the menu, the history, the follower count — comes later, if at all.
How we think about tojo
tojo is about making what’s already happening visible to the people closest to it. A chat tied to the place, open to whoever is nearby, built for the moment — not the archive.
When you can see what’s on within a five-minute walk, the decision gets simpler. Not because we give you more options, but because the right ones finally show up.
The app isn’t out yet. If you want to hear the day it goes live, join the waitlist — we’ll write then, and not otherwise.