IRL Open™Better than a scheduling poll
When2Meet, WhenAvailable, and Doodle are fine for a one-off. They fall apart on the fourth week — and they quietly hide better times. IRL Open fixes both.
1. The coordination tax repeats
A poll is a per-event artifact. Every week someone has to create a new one, chase responses, and re-decide. That repeated friction is what kills a recurring hangout — not the first game, the fourth.
A weekly poll
- New poll created from scratch, every single week
- Everyone re-enters the same availability they had last week
- The organizer nags for responses again
- Miss a week and the group habit quietly dies
IRL Open
- Pay the coordination cost once, then the system keeps answering
- Set standing availability and future proposals pre-fill for you
- Recurring games auto-suggest next week's best window
- Value builds per person — no threshold where the whole group must onboard first
2. Fixed blocks hide better answers
With a grid of pre-selected slots, the organizer's guesses are the options. If a time that works for more people exists outside those blocks, nobody ever finds out.
Pre-blocked slots
- You vote among the organizer's candidate times
- A better window just outside the blocks is invisible
- Half-hour granularity you can't paint around
- "Best" means "best of what was offered"
Continuous painting + a solver
- Paint any time range — 15-minute granularity, drag to select
- A solver scans the whole window for the optimal fit
- Ranked suggestions show who can make each, at a glance
- "Best" means actually best — even times no one thought to suggest
Same zero-friction bar: no account to respond, just open the link and paint. IRL Open only adds the parts that make a recurring group easier to keep alive.