Life, unassisted.

Why the name

Most of what we do on a screen now arrives with help we did not ask for: a feed deciding what comes next, a recommendation nudging the next tap, an assistant finishing the sentence. Some of that is genuinely useful. It is just not what this is for.

UNASSTD is for the other part of life. A Saturday ride that ends at coffee. A slow run with people who wait for you. A table of board games, a roll of film, a dinner where nobody checks the time. The things that are better with company and do not get better with more screen.

So the name is a small promise. Here, nothing steers you. You find a group that fits, you make a plan and you go. Life happens out there; we just make it a little easier to show up for.

What we build

UNASSTD has four experience families. Each has its own listing format, so you can tell whether something fits you before you RSVP, not after you arrive.

• UNASSTD Rides: group rides from coffee pace to gravel days, with distance, pace, the no-drop policy and the helmet rule stated up front.
• UNASSTD Runs: social runs and pace groups, with distance, pace ranges, whether walk/run is welcome and what happens if the weather turns.
• UNASSTD Analog: film walks, craft tables, book socials and other screen-light gatherings, with materials, the phone preference and the skill level listed.
• UNASSTD Social: game nights, dinner clubs and small pop-ups, with the format, the age minimum and the group size made clear.

Behind every listing is an independent organizer. UNASSTD Host gives them one place to publish a repeating event, take RSVPs with caps and waitlists, send reminders and record who actually came, so a good weekly ride can keep being a good weekly ride without someone living in a spreadsheet.

What we refuse

A few things are deliberately missing, and will stay missing.

• No addictive feed. Discovery is a chronological list of what is coming up and a few filters to narrow it. That is the whole thing.
• No leaderboards, points or streaks. Showing up is the reward; we will not turn it into a score.
• No selling attendee data. Hosts see the display names and RSVP status of the people coming to their own events. Nobody else gets a list, and nobody gets to buy one.
• No invented numbers. Attendance on UNASSTD is counted from real check-ins, and where there is nothing to count yet, the page says so.

Where we are starting

One metro to begin with: Washington, DC and Northern Virginia is our first area. Starting in one place lets us know the organizers, turn up to events ourselves and fix what is confusing before we think about a second city.

New clubs are reviewed before they can publish, UNASSTD takes no payments and every experience listed is published by an independent organizer. If you run a ride, a run club or a gathering here and want to be part of it, write to us or start a club.

How we work

We are small and independent, and we would rather have a few communities that keep meeting than a long list that does not. Our safety standards are public, and so are our privacy policy and terms, because the way a platform treats people when it is small is the way it will treat them later.