New here? PerfectMon 19:00
Old town walk & a beer
Half of us moved here this year
SKJPML3 of 6Join
Just moved to Braga?
Something to do, and like‑minded people to do it with.
The easiest way to meet people in a new city.
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The idea
An activity is a much easier excuse than “want to hang out?”
There’s a reason it’s easier to meet people at a padel court than at a bar. You have something to do, an hour it lasts, and a natural reason to say “same time next week?” Stem is built entirely around that hour.
No small talk cold start
Something to actually do
Every meetup is an activity with a start time and an end time. If you don’t click, it’s over in an hour and nobody’s offended.
Small on purpose
Four people, not forty
Big meetups are where you talk to nobody. Plans cap at six, so you leave knowing everyone’s name.
The point
Same faces, week after week
People you’ve done something with twice stop being strangers. That’s when the app has done its job.
The problem
“Who's in?” is not a scheduling tool.
Three regulars, one missing player, forty messages and a plan that dies on Thursday. Group chats are chaotic and permanent, and nobody ever actually commits — because saying yes in a chat costs nothing.
Padel Sábado 🎾
12 members
- Who's in for Saturday?
- I can do 7, not 6
- Is Marcos coming?
- 👍
- we need 1 more!!
- so… are we playing?
9 unread. Still nobody confirmed.
On Stem3 of 4 spots taken
Padel · beginners welcome
Saturday 10:00 · Complexo de Palmeira
1 spot left
One tap to claim a spot. The plan locks itself the moment it fills.
Braga · this week
Somewhere to be, most evenings.
31 plans open right now · 9 newcomer-friendly
New here? PerfectMon 19:00
Old town walk & a beer
Slow lap of the centre. Half of us moved here this year.
SKJPML3 of 6
Dog walk · chillTue 18:00
Parque da Ponte loop
Dogs optional. Bring one or borrow the attention of mine.
TC1 of 5
Padel · beginnersWed 20:00
Total beginners doubles
Nobody here can serve. Rackets to rent at the desk.
ALRS2 of 4
Coffee & runThu 07:30
5k, then breakfast
Conversational pace. The coffee is the actual point.
MR4 of 6
City eventSat 09:00
Bom Jesus sunrise hike
Reviewed by us · 60 going · newcomers welcomed at the start
Organised by Braga Trails
Nothing you fancy?
Post your own in ten seconds. Someone nearby is looking for exactly it.
Post a planFirst week
Start with one thing this week.
- 01
Tell us what you’d actually do
Walks and coffee count as much as padel. Beginner is a real answer.
- 02
Join one thing this week
We surface the newcomer-friendly plans first while you’re new.
- 03
Go again with someone you liked
One tap to repeat a plan with the same people. That’s how a routine starts.
“I moved here in February knowing one person. I went to a Tuesday dog walk because it felt low stakes. Six months later that’s my Tuesday.”
The things people worry about first.
- “I’m not sporty at all.”
- Then don’t be. The most joined plans in Braga are a city walk and a coffee run. Effort optional, showing up isn’t.
- “My Portuguese is bad.”
- Hosts mark the languages spoken on the plan. Plenty run in English, and a walk is a decent place to practise.
- “Is this a dating app?”
- No. No swiping, no one-on-one matching, no profiles to browse. You join a plan with three other people and go do a thing.
- “Meeting strangers, though.”
- Hosts approve who joins. Public meeting points, visible history, and women-only plans whenever a host wants one.
Why the waitlist
Invitations, in clusters.
A partner app with 200 users scattered across Portugal is a dead app. Sixty runners in Braga is a working one. So we invite by neighbourhood and by activity rather than first-come-first-served — and every invite carries three more, because people bring the partners they already train with.
- You are invited alongside people in your part of Braga, doing what you do.
- Which activities we switch on first comes straight out of this form.
- Run a club, a studio or a padel group? Say so — you come in first, with your people.
Request an invite
Tell us what you do and where you do it.
Two of these fields decide the launch: the activities we enable first, and the part of Braga we invite first. Nothing else is asked.
Find your people. One activity at a time.
Free while we’re growing. Braga now — Porto, Guimarães and Lisbon next.
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