Meeting people isn't the same as making friends.
I knew that from my own life. I'd gone to Meetups, joined groups, taken classes, tried apps — and met plenty of women I genuinely liked. What I couldn't understand was why it was still so hard for those promising encounters to turn into actual friendships.
So I started asking other women.
More than 50 conversations later,
I knew it wasn't just me.
I'm a UX designer by training. A big part of my work has been talking with people, understanding what they're really experiencing, and looking for the patterns underneath it.
Since starting GoodFriends, I've interviewed more than 50 women about friendship.
Again and again, I heard versions of the same thing:
They wanted more friendship in their lives. They were making an effort. They met women they liked.
The hard part was what came next.
Finding people nearby whose lives actually fit together. Seeing someone again. Making the next plan. Spending enough time together to find out whether a real friendship might grow.
That's why I built GoodFriends.
GoodFriends is designed around something simple: friendship needs more than an introduction.
It needs compatible people, shared time, another reason to get together, and enough chances to move beyond the first conversation.
So GoodFriends combines thoughtful matching with repeated opportunities to connect — online and in real life — and helps make that next step easier.
Maybe you want more women to do things with. Maybe you'd love a few closer friendships. Maybe you want both.
There's room for all of that.
