Hot Spots — Connecting the Real World

The app

A social network built around real places.

Your feed is the people and places you actually turn up to. Your messages reach friends and the venues themselves. Your profile is built from where you have been, not what you posted.

A home feed of check-ins and posts tied to real places

A living feed

Check-ins, posts, and stories from the people and places you follow.

Message anyone

Chat with friends and message the venues you love, right in the app.

Your profile

Profiles are built on real places, not posts. See the spots someone returns to every week.

Roadmap

Live in 133 cities. More every week.

Hot Spots is out now on iPhone and Android, and open in 133 cities across 69 countries — every one with hundreds of places already mapped, so there is something to walk into on the day you arrive.

DubaiTorontoLondonParisRiyadhSingaporeSydneyMumbaiMiamiMadrid+ 42 more live

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Communities

Real people. Real places. Real connections.

Every place you go has its own community page inside the app. Your café has one. So does your gym, your office, your mosque, and the restaurant you keep going back to.

1 Find the places you already go Search for your café, your gym, your office, your mosque. They're already in the app.
2 Join the community page One tap makes you a member. You can join as many places as you like.
3 See who's there See which of your friends are members. See other members you haven't met yet. And see who is checked in right now.

Start with one place. Pick the one you go to most, search it in Hot Spots, and join. That's the whole thing.

Free on iPhone and Android · live in 133 cities

What makes it different

Check in, tag a friend, show up together.

The heart of Hot Spots — the feature no other social app has. Turn a visit into a shared moment: check in, bring a friend along, and share one live countdown until you both check out.

Tagging a friend and setting a checkout time

1

Tag a friend

Bring someone along, set how long you'll be there, and confirm.

2

Check in

You've joined the venue's community — and you can see who else is here right now.

3

They join you

Your friend joins with a single tap, and you're both on it — no group chat required.

4

Share it live

You both share one live countdown until checkout — so friends can find you while you're there.

Meetups

Make a plan, and actually make it happen.

Group chats are where plans go to die. A meetup in Hot Spots is anchored to a real venue, with a real time and a real guest list — so "we should do this sometime" turns into everyone showing up on Saturday.

Creating a meetup at a venue with a date, time and invited friends

1

Create it in seconds

Pick a place, a time, and who's coming. Keep it invite-only for friends — or open it to the community so anyone nearby can find it and ask to join.

A meetup guest list showing who is going, with a group chat

2

See who's coming

RSVPs update live, everyone can see the guest list, and a group chat comes built in so the people going can sort out the details.

A list of upcoming meetups showing hosting, going and invited

3

Every plan in one place

Hosting, going, invited — every meetup you're part of, in date order, so nothing gets lost in a chat thread.

About

A small team with a simple mission.

Hot Spots is built in Dubai. We're on a simple mission: use technology to build real-life connections — starting with the places you already go every day.