Real connection starts in person. We support the partners running the events and spaces where strangers become friends.
For venues, clubs & experience hosts
We help people find each other, and we point them at the places ready to host them. That’s you.
A Curated Marketplace
Hilltops only approves partners running socially open offerings. You show up because you fit, not because you outbid someone.
When someone picks your venue, they can open a "room" their network can join, so what shows up at your door is often the group, not the single person.
Your venue stays visible - discoverable by proximity, not just search.
What’s shifting
The demand for in-person events is loud and clear. Connection, with other people, around something to do.
young adults in Australia report feeling lonely most or all the time.
Ending Loneliness Together, 2024
growth in run-club participation year on year.
Strava Year in Sport, 2024
international visitors to Australia in 2024.
Tourism Australia, 2024
We help people find each other, and we back the partners hosting them.
What you get
Publish events to the discovery map and your account page. Each event has its own listing in nearby members' surfaces.
Create community channels. Open to everyone, or members-only by request.
Promote your event straight to nearby members' inboxes. Anchored to the event's location and date so the right people see it at the right time. Top up your wallet once, then promote any event. Open to every approved account.
Register the venue(s) you operate. Each appears as a marker on the discovery map and is the home for the events you host there.
Your public profile inside the app. Bio, photos, links, upcoming events and the rooms forming around them.
Elevated placement above standard results across iOS, Android and Web. Premium accounts also carry a verified partner badge.
Appear in the map, event and area surfaces members use to find what is on around them. No ad spend, no per-click costs.
Your account and events appear on iOS, Android and the consumer web. One listing, three surfaces.
Users who follow your business get quick access to a dedicated activity center. From there, they can create rooms and see your upcoming events.
Invite teammates. Roles decide who can post, broadcast and edit.
The web app you're using now. Manage events, channels, broadcasts and analytics from any browser.
Notifications and account management from the Hilltops mobile app. More business tools are on the way.
Follower growth, event impressions and broadcast engagement. The deeper dashboard is on the way; basic numbers are live today.
Email support from the Hilltops team. Premium accounts get priority response times.
See and try new features before they reach everyone. Beta partners get them first; Premium accounts get them ahead of Free.
Tell us about your venue or event. We read every message.
FAQ
Who we accept
Hilltops only works if the partners on it are places where strangers can become friends. We approve venues and creators whose offering is socially compatible.
Regular nights, leagues, classes, run clubs, live music, mixers, open mics, themed sessions — anything the public can attend and meet people at.
Events with a clear, defensible audience. 30+, women-only, sober, beginner-only, sport-specific. Selective is fine when the criteria is explicit and the experience is genuinely social.
Not a fit right now — private-hire-only, table-service-only, or transactional spaces without a regular social offering.
Approvals are manual. We read every application.