If you run something that happens again and again — pickleball on Thursdays, a monthly book club, the Saturday morning run — you already know the weekly tax that comes with it: chasing people for a headcount.
Every week it’s the same routine. You post “who’s in for Thursday?” in the group chat. Two people reply right away. The rest scroll past it. You bump the message. Someone answers a thread from three days ago. By the time you’ve pieced together a real count, you’ve had the same conversation five times.
Group chats weren’t built for organizing recurring meetups. GroupThat was.
Built for the groups that meet on repeat
GroupThat isn’t for one-off events. It’s for the standing plans — the group that meets this week, and next week, and the week after. You set it up once, and it runs itself:
- Auto invites go out on your schedule. No more copy-pasting “who’s coming?” into the chat every week.
- One-tap RSVP — members tap I’m In or I’m Out and they’re done.
- A live headcount so you can see exactly who’s coming before you ever ask a follow-up question.
Set your group up once and it keeps running — the same smooth, organized rhythm every single week, whether it’s 4 people or 40.
Why we made it
We were the people sending those weekly “still on for tonight?” texts, doing headcount math in our heads, and forwarding the same logistics to a group where half of them weren’t even coming. It’s a small task that quietly eats your week — and it gets worse the more regularly your group meets.
So we built the tool we wanted: something that treats the meetup, not the chat, as the main event.
What to expect from this blog
We’ll use this space for a few things:
- Product updates — new features, improvements, and the occasional behind-the-scenes.
- Playbooks for organizers — how to run a recurring group that actually stays organized, week after week.
- Ideas worth stealing from the pickleball crews, run clubs, and game nights already using GroupThat.
Get started
GroupThat is available now on iOS and Android. If you’re the one who always ends up herding the group, give it a try — and let us know what you’d like to read about next.
Thanks for being here at the start. There’s a lot more coming.