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Friends in their late twenties piled onto an old couch in a park at night, watching an outdoor movie in 3D glasses with red popcorn buckets

The community platform your members help run

Give your group chat a front door: the chat, the calendar, a video room and real ticketing, all at your own web address. Any member can host the next night, and every ticket they sell earns you a cut.

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$1 a month for your first 3 months

We do this to help get your community off the ground so it can pay for itself. Then $79 a month, or $59 a month billed yearly. We never take a cut of your memberships.

One community platform instead of five apps

Name your group, keep it free or set a monthly price, and send one link to the group chat. No Zoom link to paste, no separate ticket site, no spreadsheet of who is coming: it is all one place from day one.

What you get

  • Your own address: yourgroup.groopy.io
  • A group chat and a feed for posts
  • A calendar with RSVPs and reminder emails
  • A video room for online nights, with recordings kept in a library
  • Paid memberships and event ticketing, paid straight into your own Stripe
  • Members who host nights, with a cut of every ticket for you
Austin · In person

The Outdoor Movie Club

Backyard screenings, shared popcorn and a say in what plays next.

3,422 members

What a group is

Your people, all in one place. A group has its own page at its own address, a chat that keeps going between nights, a feed for posts and photos, and a calendar of what is coming up. Keep it free, or charge a monthly membership that is paid straight to you.

Connect your own custom domain on a paid plan.

What an event is

A workshop, a webinar, a group call, a work party, or just a night out. It goes on your group's calendar, in person or in Groopy's own video room, and members buy a ticket without leaving the page. It is never one listing among thousands of unrelated ones: everybody who sees it already joined for this.

Community hostedTue, 7:00 PM · East Austin

Life drawing at the Cedar

Two hours. Bring your own paper.

HOSTMaya
18 going
RSVPGoing
Member hostedSun, 11:00 AM · Online

Pasta from scratch

Cook along with a member, live on video.

HOSTMaya
12 going
Get ticketTicket added
Community hostedWed, 9:00 AM · East Austin

Coffee & a catch-up

Your usual coffee. A few new faces.

HOSTJeff
9 going
RSVPGoing
Community hostedSat, 8:00 PM · East Austin

Movie night under the stars

Bring a blanket. We’ll bring the popcorn.

HOSTMaya
24 going
RSVPGoing
Your calendarExample week
Tue
7 pm
Life drawing at the CedarCommunity hosted · Free RSVP
Wed
9 am
Coffee & a catch-upCommunity hangout · In person
Sat
8 pm
Movie night under the starsThe Outdoor Movie Club · In person
Sun
11 am
Pasta from scratchMember hosted · Online · $12 ticket

In a room. On a call. Or both.

Online

Four kitchens. One class.
LiveThe Sunday Sauce Society$12 class
Host
Maya@mayamakes
Jeff@sawdustjeff
Priya@priyaplans
Jonah@projectorpal

IRL + online

One chef. Everyone cooks along.
Illustrative paid pasta class: a landscape phone on a low tripod streams the chef from the kitchen island. The wall screen shows the same four camera feeds as the online room, with everyone lifting and separating freshly cut pasta.

Pasta from scratch. Join at the table or from home.

  • In person

    A venue, a map, a guest list.

  • Online

    Your own video room. No extra app.

  • IRL + online

    Bring both sides into the same event.

Exact addresses stay with the people who are going, and the event page carries a map. Reminders arrive in each member’s own time zone.

Your members run the nights

Any member can ask to host. You say yes, they put on a night in person or in Groopy's own video room, and the room fills because the people are already yours. Turn your keenest members into hosts and the calendar starts filling without you.

Friends carrying folding chairs and a plate of food in through a front door while one of them chalks the night up on a sign
Teach what you know, charge for the night, or just get everybody in one room. All three count.

How a night runs

  • A member asks to host. You approve who runs what.
  • Every host builds a rating from the nights they have run.
  • Paying members get a discount on every ticket, which is a reason to join.
  • Hosts check people in off the door list, so you know who turned up.

The host names the price, Groopy sells real tickets, and the host keeps 95 percent. You keep the other 5, or whatever cut you set.

What other community platforms leave out

Everywhere else the night ends and the group goes quiet until the next one. Here your members keep talking, the next date is already up, and the recording stays in the library.

The Tipsy Builders Club12 online
@mayamakesAnyone around Thursday? Thinking we run the build night again.
@projectorpalIn. I can bring the projector.❤️4🔥2🙌3
@sawdustjeffSame. I owe everyone a jig from last time.
@priyaplansI’m free around 7 PM. @sawdustjeff we’re commandeering your workbench again lol.
@mayamakes
Thu, 7 PM · East Austin

Build N' Booze @ Jeffs 🍻

HOSTMaya
15 going
@projectorpalSee you all there
@sawdustjeffFound the photo from the last one 😂
@sawdustjeff
Candid phone photo of friends laughing as their googly-eyed cardboard robot, wearing a tiny party hat, flops over on the workbench.He lasted about three seconds.
😂4❤️2🤖3
@priyaplansThe tiny hat was a structural mistake.
@mayamakesStill calling it a successful stress test 😂
@projectorpalBringing snacks. And more tape.
The chat lives in the group, beside the calendar and the nights themselves. Nobody has to keep a WhatsApp thread alive or send a Telegram invite to the people who already joined.

Two ways it pays you: your members pay by the month, and you keep a cut of every ticket your hosts sell. Every host you add puts more nights on the calendar, so the group keeps growing without you running all of it.

What people ask

What makes Groopy different from other community platforms?
Most online community platforms give you a forum and leave the events to somebody else, so your people end up spread across a chat app, a ticket site and a video call. Groopy is one place: the chat, the calendar, the video room, the ticketing and the recordings, all at your own address. And any member can host, so there is something on every week without you running all of it.
What does it cost to start?
$1 a month for your first 3 months. We do this to help get your community off the ground so it can pay for itself. After that it is $79 a month, or $59 a month billed yearly, and you can cancel any time before then.
Does Groopy take a cut of what my members pay?
No. Groopy takes nothing from your memberships or your tickets; the plan is the only thing you pay us. The only cut on a ticket is yours, from the nights your hosts run. Stripe charges its usual card fee, as it does anywhere.
Can my members run nights for me?
Yes. Any member can ask to host, you approve who runs what, and every ticket they sell pays you your cut.
Who owns the members and the money?
You do. Payments land in your own Stripe account, and your member list is yours to export whenever you like.

Who makes Groopy

We are a small team of friends who care a lot about people actually getting together. We built Groopy so anyone can start their own group, host their own get-togethers and keep the whole community in one place, without needing a following or a pile of other apps to do it.

Courses. Replays. Your Library.

Give your community more to come back to. Include courses with membership, or offer them for a one-time fee.

Library

15 videos

The Tipsy Builders Club

  • Jeff presenting a handmade oak shelf in his home workshop.Course6 videos

    Your first floating shelf

    Measure, build and hang something you made yourself.

    18 started
    6 lessonsFREE
  • Maya teaching how to build an oak chair with a green backrest.Course8 videos

    A chair from scratch

    From the first cut to your favorite seat in the house.

    11 started
    8 lessons$25 to unlock
  • Friends with drinks laughing over their homemade birdhouse at a build night.Replay1 videos

    Build N' Booze @ Jeffs 🍻

    The birdhouse, the banter and the bits you missed.

    52 min 34 secWatch
Example community Library. Courses, call replays and resources, together.

Start the group that is still talking next week.

$1 a month for your first 3 months.