YCombinator keeps telling us to “do things that don’t scale,” and since we are building software that helps people spend less time on their phones, we decided to do the least scalable thing possible: take everyone’s phone from them during happy hour.
Of the ~150 guests in attendance at the event, 37 of them opted to go “phone free” for the evening, and left their phones with us.
Here’s how it worked:
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