The operating system for recurring community
Run your whole community in one place.
Every week you plan a gathering, run it, see who came, and bring them back. Gather Nearby is the one place that does all four — so first-timers become regulars, and regulars become a community you own.
Free to start · 5% on paid bookings · Your audience and its data stay yours.
One weekly loop. One place to run it.
Most community tools stop at “post an event.” The work that actually builds a community happens in the loop around the gathering — and that's what lives here.
- 1
Plan
Publish a gathering, or a series that repeats on its own.
- 2
Run
Check people in at the door and see exactly who showed.
- 3
Follow up
Post a recap and message the people who came.
- 4
Bring back
A series they subscribe to once, and an Audience you keep.
Before the gathering
Put it on the calendar. Let neighbors find it.
Publish a single gathering or a recurring series in a few minutes. Your listing shows up in local search alongside everyone else running community nearby, so you reach people beyond your existing list. RSVPs, paid tickets, and reminder emails are handled for you.
- One-time or recurring
- Native paid tickets — 5% plus Stripe, free events free
- Automatic reminder emails
- Discovery in local search
Day of
Check people in. Know exactly who showed.
Open the session roster at the door and mark each person present, late, absent, or excused. No clipboard, no spreadsheet. Everyone who checks in lands in your Audience automatically — that's how “who came” turns into something you can act on next week.
- Door check-in with timestamps
- Present · late · absent · excused
- Attendance flows straight into your Audience
- Repeat-rate visible in analytics
After the gathering
Keep the conversation going.
Every gathering gets its own space to post a recap, answer follow-up questions, and keep the group talking between sessions. When you want to reach someone directly, message the people who came from one inbox.
- Recap & follow-up threads per gathering
- One inbox to message the people who came
- Reviews that build trust
Your Audience
Everyone who shows up, in one place.
Members, attendees, followers, people you've invited, people on the waitlist — one searchable roster, with the last gathering each person came to. It's not a marketing list; it's the people in your community. You can see them, filter them, and reach the ones who opted to stay connected.
- Members, attendees & followers unified
- Search by name, email, or gathering
- Last-gathering history per person
- Yours to keep, not ours
Keep them coming back
Turn a good gathering into a standing one.
The most reliable way to bring people back is to give them something that repeats. Turn any gathering into a weekly series — attendees subscribe once and are in for every session. Occurrences roll out automatically, so the calendar keeps filling without you rebuilding it each week.
- Weekly recurring series
- Subscribe once, come every time
- Occurrences auto-generate ahead
- Co-hosts to share the load
You own it
Your community, on ground you own.
Gather Nearby is bootstrapped and independent — never flipped to investors. Your audience is yours: export the people who opted to stay connected to CSV whenever you want, with no exclusivity and no lock-in. If you ever leave, you leave with your regulars.
- 5% on paid bookings
- $0 monthly
- No exclusivity
- CSV audience export
- Your regulars stay yours
When you're ready to charge dues.
Everything above is free. When your community is ready for paid membership, Pro adds recurring dues billing on top — multiple tiers, paid out through your own Stripe account, at $39/mofounding-pilot pricing we set up with you. It's a layer you turn on, not the reason to be here.
See how Pro worksGet your community running.
Create your organization, publish your first gathering, and start turning the people who show up into the people who stay.