{"id":93017,"title":"RealRoots 👯‍♀️ the IRL friendship app for women","tagline":"Real friends, made in real life. ","body":"**TL;DR - Answer a few questions, and we’ll match you with new friends IRL for in-person experiences. Friendship guaranteed.**\n\nTHE PROBLEM:\n\nMaking friends as an adult is hard. Women lose half of their friends every 7 years, and yet there is no easy way to rebuild those circles. This fundamental problem has led to ⅔ of Americans regularly feeling lonely to no fault of their own.\n\nTHE SOLUTION:\n\nWe know that friendships form when three ingredients align: 1) compatibility, 2) repeat encounters, and 3) authentic conversations. That’s why we designed RealRoots to reliably deliver all three, allowing us to guarantee friendships.\n\n* **Friendship compatibility:** We ask women a questions about her life stage and values, matching with with compatible new friends in her area\n* **Repeat Encounters:** When a woman joins RealRoots, she commits to meeting her friend matches for multiple shared experiences, allowing enough repetition for connection to develop.\n* **Authentic Conversations**: RealRoots experiences are led by a trained facilitator, who guides deep conversations and icebreakers so that a woman gets to know her matches intentionally.\n* A woman joins for a quarter, a year, or longer.\n\n \n\nWHY WE’RE BUILDING THIS:\n\nWe’re building the product we desperately wished existed. After moving 10 times between us, we’ve repeatedly felt the struggle of rebuilding a community from scratch, and the isolation that follows. We created RealRoots because we want to solve this problem, for ourselves and for every woman seeking genuine connection.\n\nOUR ASK:\n\n**Meet friend matches (women only):** Have any female loved ones who are looking for female community? Spread the word about RealRoots. And if you’re a woman, we’d love to help you [meet your new local friend group](https://www.therealroots.com/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=93017\u0026key=user_uploads/263511/8b7a20c9-56f7-4105-96c4-29a16d751ace)\n\n","slug":"OCH-realroots-the-irl-friendship-app-for-women","created_at":"2025-08-15T20:19:28.651Z","updated_at":"2026-06-20T21:27:35.458Z","total_vote_count":151,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OCH-realroots-the-irl-friendship-app-for-women","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=93017\u0026key=user_uploads/263511/8b7a20c9-56f7-4105-96c4-29a16d751ace","company":{"id":30805,"name":"RealRoots","slug":"realroots","url":"http://www.realroots.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e4b72e88bef4437e7d672c23bb7e1f952c837fca.png","batch":"Summer 2025","industry":"Consumer","tags":[],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30805"}}