Matching on Finding Best Friends isn't about swiping through profiles and hoping for the best — it's built around the interests, hobbies and activities you actually care about. Here's how the process works, from your first profile to your first meetup.
Starting With Your Interests
Everything begins with what you tell us about yourself: the hobbies you already have, the ones you'd like to try, and the kind of people you get on with best. This becomes the foundation for every community and connection we suggest, rather than a generic list of nearby profiles.
Matching You to Communities First
Rather than matching you directly to one person, we start by matching you to communities: groups of people already brought together by a shared interest. Joining a community built around something you love means every introduction starts from common ground.
Surfacing the Right People Within a Group
Inside each community, matching narrows further to the members whose interests and activity overlap most closely with yours, whether that's the regulars at the same meetup or the members most active in a particular topic, so you're pointed toward the people you're most likely to click with.
Weighing Consistency Over One-Off Activity
Someone who shows up to the same weekly group session tells us more than someone who joined once and disappeared. Consistent participation is weighted more heavily than a single interaction, because it's the strongest sign of a genuine, ongoing interest.
Leaving Room for Serendipity
Matching isn't only about the interests you've listed, it also leaves space for the people you meet naturally within a community, at a meetup, or in a group discussion. Some of the best friendships start from a conversation the matching process didn't predict at all.
Moving From Match to Meetup
The goal of matching was never to keep you scrolling, it's to get you to a real conversation, and eventually a real meetup, as quickly and comfortably as possible. Once you've found a community and members you get on with, moving things to a local meetup is the natural next step.
Matching works best when it starts from something real: a genuine interest, not just a photo. By building communities around shared passions first and then narrowing down to the people within them, Finding Best Friends gets you to a lasting friendship faster than a generic feed ever could.