NomadTable

01The full story

Jay built NomadTable, a meetup app for solo travelers, expats, and digital nomads. He describes the core problem plainly: traveling alone can make it hard to find companionship and friends. He started working on the idea while employed as a software engineer at Amazon, then launched the app about a year and three months before the interview. He says it reached $140K in monthly recurring revenue and 1.8 million users, with an estimated 100,000 meetups having happened through the app. Those are founder-reported figures, with no independent dashboard or audit described. The product serves a mobile, location-sensitive audience, so Jay’s own travel became part of product research. He spent four months in Bangkok, which he calls a major hotspot for the app, attended meetups organized through NomadTable, and spoke directly with users. He says these conversations generated feature ideas and revealed ways to serve audience subgroups. Jay works as a solo founder and frames the business as a passion project he would still value if only two people met through it. The interview offers little detail on monetization mechanics or acquisition channels, so the revenue figure is stronger evidence than the explanation of how it was achieved.