Why My Meet-New-People App Started in 2 Cities, Not 200 (Dublin + Sarajevo) [2026]

A meet-people app is only useful where people are. Why I'm building density in Dublin and Sarajevo first, and what early signs from Kenya taught me.

Why I Launched My App in 2 Cities, Not 200 [2026]: Konnectors founder blog

By Boris Adzaip, founder of Konnectors · 2 min read

Published 9 November 2026

The empty-room problem

An app for meeting people has a brutal rule: if you open it and nobody is there, you leave and you don't come back. Ten users spread across ten countries is not a community. Ten users in one neighbourhood is a start.

Why Dublin

I live in County Kildare, close enough to Dublin to see for myself what works there. It is also a city where plenty of people have moved from somewhere else, which is exactly when you need new friends. There is already a plain-English guide to it: How to make friends in Dublin.

Why Sarajevo

I have a connection to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Sarajevo has a strong café culture, which is what hangouts are built on. A social app has to fit habits that already exist, not invent new ones.

What "density-first" means in practice

Pick a small number of cities and say them out loud.
Point the posts, the guides and the ads at those places first.
Judge success by one question: does a hangout posted here get a response? Total downloads can lie. A quiet city cannot.

Where Kenya came in

The data had other ideas. In early numbers, Kenya showed a strong install-to-registration rate, and Google Play supports M-Pesa billing, which matters for paid plans. I'm treating that as an experiment, not a pivot: two home cities, one curious side quest.

How you can help a city come alive

Post one concrete plan: "Saturday, 5 p.m., coffee and a walk." Cities get active when someone organises something. If you live in Dublin, Sarajevo or anywhere else, create a hangout and let people ask to join.

Konnectors is free on Google Play, and you can also use it in your browser. An iOS version is being built.