Most networking apps are built to keep you in the app. Ours is built to get you out of it. The Founder Feast app exists for one moment: Thursday, 7pm, when you sit down with four founders we picked for you, at a restaurant you found out about 24 hours ago. Everything on the screen serves that table.
Here's what it actually does, end to end, with no feature inflation.
Why we built dinner-first software
The dinner came first. Founder Feast started with Thursday dinners in Vancouver: 5 hand-picked founders per table, a restaurant we choose, no panels, no badges, no pitches. The app came second, and that order matters. We didn't build a social network and bolt events onto it. We built software around a dinner table.
That constraint decided everything. A feed is only useful if it leads to a Thursday reservation. Chat is only useful if it means you walk into the restaurant already knowing something about your table. If a feature would make the app stickier but the dinners no better, it doesn't ship. For the longer argument about why a table of five beats a room of two hundred, read why founder dinners work.
Applying from your phone
Everything starts with the application. You apply exactly once: tell us who you are and what you're building, and we review it. Every member is vetted, which is the entire reason the tables work. The application in the app is the same one on the web, so start wherever your thumb happens to be and finish in one sitting.
Reserving a Thursday
Once you're in, the core loop is one screen: pick a Thursday in your city and reserve your seat. Dinner is every other Thursday at 7pm in Vancouver, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Still deciding which coast you're on? We wrote an honest SF vs LA startup scene comparison for exactly that.
Membership is $39.99 CAD a month in Vancouver ($39.99 USD in San Francisco and Los Angeles) and covers your seat at every dinner, cancel anytime. You pay the restaurant for what you eat, so there's no markup hiding in the food.
The 24-hour reveal
The day before dinner, your phone tells you where you're going. The restaurant and your table drop 24 hours ahead, and that's deliberate. You commit to the people first and learn the venue second, which keeps the decision about who's at the table instead of what's on the menu. It's designed to be the best notification of your fortnight: Wednesday evening, a restaurant you didn't pick, four people you're about to know.
Between dinners
The rest of the app keeps the week connected to the table:
- Member directory. Every vetted founder in your city, in one place. When Thursday's conversation turns into "you should meet my friend who solved that," the friend is findable.
- Chats. A thread with your table and a thread with your whole city. Table chat is for the walk-in and the follow-up. City chat is for everything else.
- The map. Your city on a map, so you can see where things are happening without scrolling for it.
Membership, managed in-app
Your membership lives in the app too: subscribe, manage it, cancel anytime. No support ticket, no hunting through emails. The same controls exist on the web, because your membership belongs to you, not to a device.
In your pocket, and on the web
The app is on the App Store and Google Play. And everything it does also works on the web: the same member area lives at founderfeast.com, with the application, reservations, the reveal, the directory, the feed, and chats all in the browser. If you'd rather not install anything, you get the full experience at the same address.
We should be clear about what the app is not. It's not a place to build an audience, farm connections, or replace showing up. Plenty of tools already do the online part well, and we compared them honestly in our roundup of apps founders use to meet each other in 2026. This one is different on purpose: the product is the dinner, and the app is how the dinner fits in your pocket.
If that sounds like your kind of software, apply for a seat. It takes a few minutes, we read every application, and the next Thursday is never far off.
Common questions
What is the Founder Feast app? The Founder Feast app is the companion to a dinner club for founders in Vancouver, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. You apply, reserve a Thursday dinner, get the restaurant reveal 24 hours before, browse the member directory, and chat with your table and city. Everything also works at founderfeast.com.
Is the Founder Feast app free to download? Downloading the app and applying are free. Attending dinners requires membership at $39.99 a month (CAD in Vancouver, USD in San Francisco and Los Angeles), which covers your seat at every dinner in your city, cancel anytime. At the restaurant you simply pay for what you eat.
How do I join Founder Feast? Apply once, from the app or at founderfeast.com/apply. Every member is vetted: we read applications and hand-pick tables of 5 founders. Once you are in, membership is $39.99 a month (CAD in Vancouver, USD in San Francisco and Los Angeles) and covers your seat at every dinner in your city, cancel anytime.
Is the Founder Feast app available on Android? Yes. The app is on the App Store and Google Play, and the full member area, including the application, reservations, the 24-hour reveal, the directory, the feed, and chats, also works in any browser at founderfeast.com. Your membership is identical either way.
What cities does Founder Feast operate in? Vancouver, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Vancouver came first. All three cities sit down every other Thursday at 7pm at a restaurant we choose, revealed 24 hours before.
