Meet YourTime: The App Where Meetups Actually Happen

Everyone has a version of the story. The Marketplace buyer who swore they'd come at 2. The gym partner who was "on their way." The language-exchange match who confirmed twice and then evaporated. Plans with strangers — and honestly, plenty of plans with friends — run on a promise that costs nothing to break.

YourTime is an iOS app built on one idea: a plan means more when both people put a little something behind it.

How one meetup flows

1. Schedule it. You pick the place, the time, and a deposit amount — starting at $10 — and send the invite. The other person sees every rule and every number before they accept.
2. Both deposits are held, not paid. Each of you places a card authorization hold, like a hotel does at check-in. Nothing is charged to anyone to schedule — here's the full mechanics.
3. Show up, and it confirms itself. Around the start time, the app checks each phone's distance to the spot. Be there together — about 30 seconds side by side — and the meetup confirms automatically on both phones.
4. Both showed: both holds released. In full, every time. Meetups that happen are always free.
5. One didn't: their deposit pays the other. The no-show's deposit becomes a fee, and most of it goes to the person who kept their word.

What it deliberately isn't

It isn't a way to make money off your friends. The happy path — everyone shows — costs zero, always. The app only ever earns from the person who wasted someone's time, which means our incentive is meetups that happen, not fees that don't.

It isn't a prepayment. Nobody sends anybody money up front, ever — that pattern has real problems, especially between strangers. Holds sit with the card networks, not in anyone's pocket.

It isn't a tracker. The app records only your distance to the agreed spot during the meetup window — never your coordinates or route — and the other person only ever sees your status at the spot (arrived, or left), never where you are. Presence data is deleted after the dispute window. Details in the FAQ.

And it isn't judge-by-vibes. Confirmation comes from both phones being at the same place at the same time. When the evidence is genuinely unclear, nothing is charged automatically — a human reviews before any deposit moves, and ambiguity always leans toward the outcome where no money moves at all.

Who it's for

Marketplace pickups are the obvious one — no-shows are the tax every seller pays — but the same mechanic works anywhere flaking costs someone real time: workout partners holding each other to the 6am plan, language exchanges, study sessions, club meetups, first meetings of any kind.