Dinners with strangers
Timeleft
Algorithm-matched dinners with five strangers, every Wednesday.
“Roughly 600 months left to live.”
— Maxime Barbier, founder
“Of the 10 times I attended, 6 were really nice and 4 were mediocre.”
— User · Museum of Thoughts blog
Our take
A clean bridge — it solves the cold-start of meeting anyone new. But a dinner is shared action only once, with a different table each week, so it rarely converts into a fixed group.
It works the way the familiar-stranger effect predicts: keep going and you start recognising faces. Treated as a one-off, it stays a nice evening rather than a regular table.