Easy first hellos
Start with coffee, a walk, or a short introduction nearby.
Meet people near you
Meet people nearby — local friends, activity partners, and neighbors
Hey There Neighbor is a free way to meet people who live nearby.
Whether you’re looking for local friends, someone to play pickleball or go walking with, other parents nearby, neighbors to trade pet sitting with, or simply more familiar faces around your neighborhood, Hey There Neighbor helps you find people nearby who share your interests.
Instead of matching you with people all over the city, the idea is simple: meet the people who are already around you.
You can browse nearby neighbors and shared interests, join or start local groups and events, or get introduced for a short 10-minute “say hi” chat.
Meet people near you
Free to join
Closer connections start close to home.
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Make friends in your neighborhood
Making friends as an adult often means traveling across town, coordinating schedules weeks in advance, or showing up alone to a big social event.
Hey There Neighbor takes a more local approach.
Find people who live within walking distance and are also interested in meeting more people nearby. Start with a coffee, a walk, a 10-minute introduction, or simply saying hello.
The goal isn’t necessarily to meet your new best friend in one interaction. It’s to turn some of the strangers around you into familiar faces — and give new friendships a chance to grow naturally.
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Find activity partners near you
Sometimes you don’t need another social event. You just want someone nearby who wants to do the same thing.
Neighbors use Hey There Neighbor to connect around interests such as:
- Borrowing/Lending Tools
- Dinner with Neighbors
- Pet Sitting
- Playdates for Kids
- Badminton
- Bars
- Baseball
- Birdwatching
- Board Games
- Camping
- Climbing
- Coworking
- Cycling
- Emergency Preparedness
- Football
- Gaming
- Gardening
- Hiking
- Kayaking/Canoeing
- Mahjong
- Pickleball
- Ping Pong
- Reading
- Running
- Skiing and Snowboarding
- Soccer
- Tennis
- Trivia
- Volleyball
- Volunteering
- Walking
- Yoga
Choose what you’re interested in and see people nearby who selected the same things.
That can make it easier to find a walking buddy, pickleball partner, running partner, coworking buddy, dog-walking friend, or someone to try an activity with — without broadcasting the request to an entire neighborhood group.
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Meet the people already around you
Meet people in the same stage of life
Your neighborhood may already contain people you’d like to know — you just haven’t had a reason to meet. Discover nearby people around experiences such as parenting, playdates, pets, working from home, food, fitness, hobbies, and local activities.
Meet your neighbors in 10 minutes
You can live next to someone for years without ever having a natural reason to introduce yourself. If you and another nearby neighbor are both interested, meet at a convenient place and say hi for ten minutes.
Ten minutes is intentionally short: enough time to put a friendly face to a name, but small enough that meeting a new person doesn’t have to become a whole social commitment. If you get along, keep talking. If not, you still know one more person in your neighborhood.
Find people for neighborly favors
Not every neighborhood connection has to become a friendship. Sometimes community means knowing someone who might swap pet sitting, lend a tool, water a plant, share local information, or help out when needed.
Shared activities
Find someone local who already wants to do the same thing.
Mutual support
Connect around pets, favors, local knowledge, and everyday help.
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Build more community where you live
Hey There Neighbor isn’t only for people actively looking for new friends. It’s also designed to make neighborhoods, apartment buildings, condos, and local communities feel more connected.
People can find others with shared interests, create groups, organize local activities, and meet one another one-on-one without requiring a single community organizer to manually introduce everyone.
For neighborhood organizers, apartment communities, and local groups, it can provide a lightweight way to help residents turn proximity into actual relationships.
A simple place to start
How Hey There Neighbor works
Tell us what you’re interested in
Choose what you want more of locally — friendly faces, local friends, activity partners, parenting connections, neighborly favors, or improving your neighborhood.
Discover people nearby
See neighbors with shared interests, browse local groups and events, and find people you might want to know.
Say hi
Message someone, join a group, attend something nearby, or accept a suggested 10-minute neighbor chat. Hey There Neighbor creates a reason to start talking.
Common questions
What to know before you join
How is this different from a friend-finding app?
Many friendship apps help you meet someone somewhere in your city. Hey There Neighbor is specifically built around proximity. The point is to meet people close enough that a friendship or activity doesn’t always require coordinating schedules and traveling across town.
How is it different from Nextdoor or a neighborhood group chat?
Neighborhood feeds and group chats are useful for sharing information with lots of people at once. Hey There Neighbor focuses on helping the right individual people find one another. If you’d like a tennis partner, another parent with similarly aged kids, someone to grab coffee with, or a neighbor interested in gardening, people who share that interest can discover one another without broadcasting every idea to hundreds of people.
Where can I use Hey There Neighbor?
Hey There Neighbor is currently most active in San Francisco, with neighbors and community organizers also starting local communities elsewhere. People can sign up to see who is nearby and help grow their local community.
Is Hey There Neighbor free?
Yes. Hey There Neighbor is free to join.
Looking for people nearby?
There are probably interesting people living a few minutes away whom you’ve simply never had a reason to meet. That’s what Hey There Neighbor is here to change.
Find neighbors near you