Hi there,
I'm George.

Welcome to the official website for Avenue3, Austin's friend-making app! I'm really glad you're here.

I'm a native Austinite — or a "unicorn," as we're called these days. I love this beautiful, vibrant, and sometimes chaotic city, and I genuinely want to do something helpful for the people who live here.

Right now, apart from the help of Claude AI, I'm a one-man band — developing, testing, launching, promoting, and paying for Avenue3 all on my own. I've never been employed as a software engineer, and to be frank, I'm relatively bad at the advanced technical side of things. But I love building software, and I believe there's a real problem to be solved.

Here's the honest truth about my own life: I have nine pinned contacts in Messages on my iPhone. Two of them are my parents (love you, Mom and Dad!). Only two are within five years of my age — and both are married with kids. With the exception of my parents and one older friend, I hardly ever talk to any of them voice-to-voice, much less face-to-face.

I think we convince ourselves that all those group chats and Instagram stories count as connection. What we're really doing is siloing ourselves down to a small inner circle — if that. We use our phones to maintain the illusion of friendship, not build it.

So I want to make some friends I can actually get together with. People I can call up on a Friday and say, "Hey, you want to go bowling? Play laser tag? Take a walk around Town Lake?" And who are actually likely to say yes. That's where Avenue3 came from.