Kai Risdahl

How much is this going to run me if I desperately need a friend?

Yeah, so 222, I can tell you in U.S.

dollars, it's $22.22, so that's kind of cute, per month.

Kind of cute, yeah.

A little too on the nose, actually, but you know, whatever.

Time left, I can tell you it's 25 Canadian, so that would be something smaller, USD, but then you can get a three-month or a six-month package, and then that lowers the price even more.

But then, of course, none of that includes the cost of the dinners.

Right, right, right.

So that's just the buy-in, as it were.

Exactly.

Right.

You have a great line in this piece talking about reducing a human problem, finding a friend, right, to an interface and a price point.

And boy, does that take the romance and then, well, not romance, wrong word, but that takes the sort of human element out of a lot of what's happening here if you're finding a friend.

Absolutely.

And it's interesting because I think that these platforms, part of the appeal and part of why people want to pay for them is because they do have that illusion of authenticity and kind of spontaneity where you're not seeing, like with something like Hinge or Tinder, you're actually seeing that mechanical process and you're part of the process where with Time Left or 2-2-2, you get to kind of buy into the illusion of, oh, this is just happening naturally, but in fact, it's a sort of technological process working behind the scenes.

Yeah, you alluded to it a minute ago, but you're done with these things, right?

You'd go back if you had to, but for now, you're fine without it?

Yeah, I would say ultimately not for me.

I do think that that kind of solo travel use case was the one that was most appealing to me in terms of if I could ever see myself on these platforms again.

But I think barring that, probably not.