Show HN: TwoTickets – meet through events, not swipes

This is exactly what I don't want. I mean, I'm no longer in the market for meeting new people (read: dating), but I can't imagine anything worse than not having a good way to politely exit an awkward encounter.

My experience with dating apps (good and bad) tells me that I don't want to get locked in with a stranger without an out, whether for dating purposes or otherwise.

Edit: I commend the originality of the idea, however.

TwoTickets isn’t meant to be “just another dating app.” I see it more as a matching engine for shared experiences. Most platforms match people on profiles — I wanted to see what happens if you flip it and match on plans.

I think of it as Uber...when you open the app, you're thinking about where you want to go and the rest happens automatically. On TwoTickets, it is - "What you want to do"

That shift changes a lot:

The ice-breaker is the event, not a bio.

Plans are time-bound, so conversations don’t drift into dead-ends.

Safety and trust feel higher when there’s clarity on why you’re connecting.

On the tech side: it’s a Django + Celery + Postgres stack with a fair bit of scheduling and clustering and feed generation logic to ingest events and suggest matches. Happy to dive deeper into that if folks are interested.