NoSolo helps solo travelers make dinner plans so they can enjoy their solo adventures while also having fun with others—on their own terms. We’ve been testing our service in Boston, Atlanta, Valencia (Spain), Lisbon, and Buenos Aires. Each city uses different marketing channels, accepts different pricing models, and offers unique partnerships.
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Hello, fellow founders-
I'm Christine, the CEO & Founder of NoSolo (nosolo.co), a company based in Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA. With many years of professional and personal experience in travel, I understand the ups and downs of solo adventures. I decided to create NoSolo—a service that helps connect solo travelers through shared dinners.
Even with the liberation of solo travel, there are moments, especially at dinnertime, when solo travelers unfamiliar with a city want company, especially at dinner.
Imagine a service that helps solo travelers make dinner plans so they can enjoy their solo adventures while also having fun with others—on their own terms. We’ve been testing our service in Boston, Atlanta, Valencia (Spain), Lisbon, and Buenos Aires. Each city uses different marketing channels, accepts different pricing models, and offers unique partnerships.
👉 Curious about the dinners? Explore our website at nosolo.co and sign up for updates.
Our target audience—traditionally solo travelers who are here today and gone tomorrow—is expanding to include expats, digital nomads, and older Millennials and Gen X diners. While we don’t see many retirees yet, their numbers are growing.
Marketing has been our biggest challenge both in terms of cost but also defining audience. We want repeat users. Widening the pool to include nomads, expats, really anyone over 18, could help but will mean more complex messaging campaigns.
Example Use Cases:
• A traveler is visiting Valencia for a week to explore the possibility of moving there. They don’t know anyone and want to meet others to learn about life in the city.
• They Google “dinner with people in Valencia” and find NoSolo. Or they go to meetup.com and search "dinners in valencia”. Or they find NoSolo from Facebook Valencia travel/expat groups.
• NoSolo offers pre-planned events they can join. They sign up for a dinner. When we reach a critical mass of traveler members in a city, users will also be able to enter account profiles to capture age, gender, language, and select dates they’d like to have dinner. The service will then match them with fellow members in the area and reserve a table at a local restaurant.
We’re also working on whether integrations with online restaurant reservation systems in various countries makes sense to streamline planning and automate the process.
We welcome suggestions and feedback!