IRL Open™

Introducing IRL Open

Coordinating a recurring, informal, in-person hangout is unreasonably hard. Not the first one — the fourth. The first pickup game comes together on adrenaline and a group chat. By week four, someone has to make yet another poll, chase the same people for the same answers, and re-decide a thing that felt settled. That repeated friction is what quietly kills a good habit.

IRL Open exists to remove that friction. It’s the scheduling half of Win IRL: IRL Open schedules the game, and its sister app IRL Arena scores it.

Two things the old poll gets wrong

We started from the two specific ways a tool like When2Meet or Doodle fails a group that plays together on repeat:

  1. The coordination tax repeats. A poll is a per-event artifact. You rebuild it every single week, and everyone re-enters availability that hasn’t changed.
  2. Fixed blocks hide better answers. When the organizer pre-selects the candidate slots, those guesses are the options. A time that works for more people, just outside the blocks, never gets found.

What we do instead

  • Paint continuous availability. Drag across a grid to shade in whenever you’re free — any range, at 15-minute granularity. No pre-set blocks to squeeze into.
  • Let a solver find the window. Instead of voting among guesses, you get ranked suggestions for the times that actually work for the most people, with a clear count of who can make each.
  • Set it once. For groups that meet on repeat, your standing availability can pre-fill future proposals so you stop re-answering the same question every week.

And the whole thing keeps the zero-friction bar that makes these tools work at all: no account needed to respond. Open the link, paint, done.

Try it

Start a proposal at app.irlopen.com/new, share the link with your group, and go out and play. We’d love to hear what breaks and what helps — support@irlopen.com.