Like Couchsurfing™, but better
Non‑profit. Community‑focused. Well built.
We are building a new platform that takes all the best features from existing platforms while tackling their main issues. Free for everyone to use forever. Modern, useful, and evolving with the community's needs.
Are you a leader in your community? Have experience in non-profit startups or marketing? Want to offer your technical expertise in development? Love working on graphics or UI/UX design? We’d love to have you on board our team.
If you've got ideas, just want to stay updated, or would like to join the volunteer team in any capacity — please sign up!
We're sure that you, like all of us, have had great experiences that couldn't have happened without Couchsurfing™. But we all know it's got its issues. For the next generation in couch-surfing apps, we need to fix those issues.
If there's any problems you've found with Couchsurfing™ or any other platforms, we'd love to hear about it so we can try to fix them.
Issue:
Couchsurfing™ is explicitly for-profit, prioritizing returns for investors over users and communities.
The community has been ignored, too many users have been pushed onto the platform, trust between members has been eroded.
Issue:
Detrimental users threaten users' safety, especially for women. Freeloaders abound.
You can't trust people based on references.
Local communities have been shrinking to just small groups of super-hosts.
Issue:
There are far too many bugs and problems with the Couchsurfing™ platform. It wasn't good enough as a free service, and it's definitely not good enough now that it's paid.
Our plan:
This platform will be run as a non-profit, taking no outside investment. The priorities will be the users and community.
We will build communities into the foundations of the product, and improve trust through a new verification method.
Our plan:
Users will be accountable for how they treat other members, filtering out creeps and freeloaders.
Overhauled references to reflect more accurately on users.
Healthier communities by spreading out hosting opportunities and no message limits.
Our plan:
Our platform is developer-led. We will build this right, make it scalable, and listen to the community to fix bugs. We want to make something to be proud of.
Our growing team is a mix of couch-surfing software specialists and community organizers who are committed to building this platform for you. Read more about the team.