Show HN: Pause – weekly curated 1:1 coffee matches for London professionals

tanaysaboo123

Hey HN Built this after a stretch of feeling oddly isolated despite being surrounded by people — the usual thing where everyone's busy, plans keep falling through, and it's easier to stay in than make the effort to meet someone new. Pause matches you with one person a week — coffee, a skill swap, or a quiet cowork session — based on shared interests. No swiping, no group chats that go nowhere. You show up, we handle who and where. It's live in London now, first paid cycle just went out. Feedback very welcome, especially on the matching logic — that's the part I'm least sure I've gotten right yet. Happy to answer anything about how it works or what's next.

AFF87

Interesting, will try it!

oidar

interesting idea, you should update the copy to have non-AI like writing though. It reads very AI generated atm.

Oras

AI generated page, no links to who created it, what they do, and somehow making it to HN front page.

Bric3d

Cool idea, Just a heads up, your google single sign on isn't very descriptive > Grant permission to Platform [in progress] > This will allow Platform [in progress] to see:

mvkel

If there are 10 people on a social network, are you allowed to call it "curated"?

egecant

Great idea! Would definitely sign up if I was living in London. Whats the verification process for sign ups btw?

quinncom

I’m blocked on the phone number registration step: > Enter a valid UK mobile number (e.g. 07700 900123) (I have only a Google Voice number from the US. I spend a lot of time in London, so feel like I should qualify for an account. )

timothydl

I love the idea of getting out of the "office" (in my case work from home) to meet people for real eye contact, discussions without technology, etc. I went through my LinkedIn contacts a year ago and filtered to those in my city. From that list I contacted a couple of people each day in an effort to meet for coffee, lunch, or adult beverages. It was excellent to have good conversations without a phone or laptop in hand.

iKlsR

For some reason on first read I thought this was solely for people who played the london system in chess.