Mehfil
Starts
4:45 PMin 12 min
Who is in
- Aditi
- Farhan
- Meera
- Kabir, later
DemonstrationBuilt for this page, not a screenshot. Everyone here is invented. Try the buttons, and drag the notice.
Mehfila gathering, convened at short notice
Shall we go? Chai, cards, dinner, whatever it is
Every group has this message, and it scrolls away before anyone answers it. Mehfil turns it into one time, two answers, and a live list of who is actually turning up.
What goes up on the board
Chai is a mehfil. So is cards, so is dinner in ten minutes, so is five minutes outside. The occasion changes and the notice does not.
Chai
The eleven o'clock. The four o'clock. The one that was going to be ten minutes and turns into an hour. It is the most common mehfil, not the only one.
The sutta break
Five minutes outside. The one nobody bothers typing out, because by the time they have, everyone has already gone down and come back.
Cards
Teen patti on a Friday. One notice, and the table fills itself.
Lunch
Dinner is ready in ten. Flatmates, not a calendar invite.
An outing
Somebody has an auto. Somebody else knows a place.
One notice at a time
Every other tool hands you options. Three times to compare, a poll to run, a thread to read back. That is the part that fails, so Mehfil will not do it.
A group gets exactly one current session. Not by convention, and not because the screen only shows one: the constraint is specified in the database rather than the interface, so a second cannot be accepted while the first is standing. When its time arrives, the board is free again.
Call one yourself
This is the whole creation flow, working. Pick a time, say what it is for, put it up. Then try to put up a second one.
Quick pick
or what it is for
Chai
4:45 PM
in 15 min
Nothing on the board
Pick a time and put one up. This board is yours and it is empty, which is the only state Mehfil ever shows you besides one notice.
The whole invite is a code
No email invitations, no directory, no searching for people you already see every day. The group exists before Mehfil does. It only needs a door. Paste the code into the chat you are already in.
Three things, then never again
Start a group
Name it. Mehfil hands you a code. Anyone holding that code is in, and you can regenerate it the day it ends up somewhere it should not be.
Call a mehfil
Fifteen minutes from now, or an exact time tonight. Anyone in the group can call one, not just whoever started it.
Watch it fill
In, or later. Everybody sees each answer land as it happens, so nobody has to ask who is coming.
Pin your email to the board
Mehfil is being built slowly and is not finished. No launch date, no countdown, and no newsletter.
The waitlist is not live yet, so this sends nothing and stores nothing. Said here rather than after you type.
Where this actually stands, September 2026. The design system is built and the database schema is specified, with the first migration written and not yet applied to anything. No screens exist. The notice at the top of this page is a working demonstration made for this page, and the four people on it are invented. There are no users to count, no funding to mention, and no date to give you. The waitlist itself is not live yet, so the field above validates but sends nothing anywhere.