The best events aren't online. They're stapled to a pole.
Poster turns the event flyers you walk past — concerts, night markets, gallery shows — into real plans. Snap a photo and it's an event with the date and the place, ready for your calendar, kept on a wall of your own, ready to send to a friend. From lamppost to calendar in ten seconds. Everyone nearby can see it too.
Capture one poster before the doors open and Founding Member stays on your profile for good. The doors open when the beta ends.
Free · iPhone now, Android to come · invite-only while it's small
How it works
1
Spot one in the wild
Telephone poles, café windows, venue doors. Every poster out there is an event only the people who walk past it know about, until you snap it.
2
Snap it
One photo. Your phone crops the poster and reads the title, time, venue and price off it, and that's the whole job: nothing to retype. A second read on our side checks the details against the photo afterwards, so what you kept stays right.
3
It's a plan
Say you're going, and it can go straight into your phone's calendar. It stays on a wall of your own with every other poster you've snapped, and it goes to a friend as a card. It's also up for everyone nearby, with your name on it: snap a poster before anyone else and that stays true for good.
One somebody snapped in Truckee
Free Fall Family Movie Nights
Every Tuesday at 6:00 PM
FiftyFifty Brewing Co.
Free
What's inside
Calendar sync
Save an event and it shows up in your phone's calendar. That's the whole feature. It rules.
A wall of your own
Every poster you've snapped, kept: the show, the night, the corner it was on. Not a photo you'll never scroll back to, but a plan you can open and the poster itself.
Share cards
Send any event as a clean card over Messages, WhatsApp, or straight into an Instagram story. The friend on the other end needs nothing but a phone.
Your name on it, and what's on near you
Snap a poster before anyone else and your name stays on that event for good. Everything people around you have snapped is what's on nearby, soonest first and close to home. Where Poster is new it starts thin and fills in a poster at a time, and the people snapping first are the ones whose names end up on most of it.
The quiet part
Read on the spot, checked after. Your phone reads the poster the moment you capture it, and after you publish, the details get a second look against the photo on our side, so what you kept stays right without anyone retyping anything. When you publish a poster, what leaves your phone is the photo, the details read off it, and the spot it was captured, which places the event and matches a poster somebody else already found. That spot is kept readable by you and nobody else; the feed shows only the event's own location. No ads, no tracking, nothing paid to the top, and you can browse without an account. The posters are the interface; we stay out of the way. The rest is in the privacy policy, in plain words.
Request an invite
It's early. You'll hit rough edges, and we want to hear about every one of them. The beta is running in San Francisco, Reno, Truckee and Chicago, a neighborhood at a time. Tell us where you walk, even if it isn't on that list: Poster does its job the day you get it, with nobody else around, and the first person snapping in a town is the one whose name ends up on most of it. Poster is made by @brian, one person who bounces between San Francisco and Truckee, reads every request and sends every invite by hand.
Thanks, you're on the list. If we can invite you, the next email from us is the invite; we don't write otherwise.
