Kinlia vs Beaconaut

Find your people. Build community. Go to events that matter. Kinlia helps you discover meaningful, connection-driven events in New York City, Los Angeles, and the Bay Area. From dance and wellness to art, music, and conscious gatherings — Kinlia brings together people who care about showing up, participating, and building real community. No spectators here. Just people who want to connect. On Kinlia, you’ll find a curated mix of creative, conscious, dance, nerdy, wellness-focused, and community-centered events — including: • Movement & dance: Ecstatic dance, conscious raves, community-centered EDM, 5Rhythms, contact improv, acro yoga, embodiment practices • Healing & mindfulness: Sound healing, meditation, breathwork, ceremony, integration circles • Nature & community: Nature walks, hikes, outdoor gatherings • Creativity & self-expression: Art salons, music jams, poetry nights, storytelling, crafting, flow arts • Talks & workshops: Spirituality, activism, tech, self-growth, communication, culture, politics • Festivals, retreats & immersive experiences: Conscious parties, themed gatherings, immersive art, transformational festivals, wellness retreats We partner with community builders and event organizers to make it easy to find events where you belong — and to deepen connections with the people you meet there. Are you an event organizer building community? List your events at www.kinlia.com or directly through the Kinlia mobile app. We’d love to support you through Kinlia’s built-in ticketing system, which offers: • Immediate payouts • Free email and SMS messages to ticket holders • Simple event management • Marketing support to help you grow your audience Whether you’re looking for friendship, collaboration, creative inspiration, shared experiences, or authentic networking, Kinlia helps you meet people who feel aligned with you. Kinlia welcomes everyone. All genders, sexualities, relationship styles, belief systems, and life stages are welcome. Our values are authenticity, kindness, creativity, play, community, and personal growth — and we invite you to live those values with us. Kinlia is a product of Kindra Connect, Inc. We’re using technology to deepen human connection and help communities thrive.

Beaconaut is for the friends you'd see far more often if seeing them took no planning. Somewhere between a text you never send and an evening nobody gets around to organising, there is a much smaller thing: letting your people know you're around. THE INVITATION Send up a beacon and your circle sees where you are — I'm here, come find me. There is no note to write and nothing to arrange; the place and the moment are the whole message. Answering costs one tap. So does saying you can't. Saying nothing costs nothing at all, and nobody is ever told you stayed quiet. That lightness is the point. An invitation this cheap to send gets sent on an ordinary Tuesday, which is exactly when you needed it. YOUR PEOPLE, OUT THERE Atlas is the globe on your home screen: everyone you share a circle with gathered around it, the threads between you lit where you have been talking lately. It will not help you find anybody, and it is not trying to. It is there so that on an evening when nobody is free, you can still see that your people exist, somewhere, getting on with their lives. Company rather than navigation. CLOSER, ONLY IF IT'S OFFERED The app gets more precise only as people choose it. Atlas is a feeling. The compass is an approximation — roughly which way someone is, roughly how far, never a route, and enough to feel them nearby without being enough to arrive at them. A beacon is the one exact thing, and it exists only because somebody decided they wanted to be found. Nothing sharpens on its own. THE CIRCLE Circles stay small, and they are invite-only. That limit isn't a tier you can pay to raise; keeping a circle small is what makes it a circle. One shared thread, a shared gallery, and the people already in your life. No feed. No followers. No public profile, no like counts, nothing to perform for. IT ENDS ON ITS OWN A beacon is temporary by design. It closes itself, with nothing to cancel and nobody notified that it lapsed. What stays is the warm part — who came, who sent love — and that is what makes the next one easy to send.