how beacon works
1. light your beacon when you're free
It's 7pm on a Friday. You're home, you'd be up for doing something. Tap the button. Your friends can see you're around.
2. see who else lit theirs
You can't see who's available until you've said you are too. No lurking. No waiting for someone else to go first. Everyone shows their hand at the same time.
3. you're both free. the rest is easy.
No negotiation, no "let me know what works for you." Just two people who happen to be available at the same time.
why beaconing beats planning
nobody has to go first
There's always someone in every friend group who does most of the initiating — and eventually gets tired of it. Beacon sidesteps the whole dynamic. You can't see who else is free until you've said you are. Everyone's equally on the hook.
it resets every day
No lingering plans, no "we should hang soon" that haunts a thread for weeks. Each day is its own thing. You're either free today or you're not.
one decision, not ten
Making plans is exhausting partly because it's never one decision — it's who, what, where, when, who can make it, whether to reschedule. Beacon collapses all of that to a single question: am I free right now?
just your people
No feed. No algorithm choosing who sees you. No strangers. The friends you actually want to see — and nothing else.