About
The Life Hack to your Social Life
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The What
The Scene is the first platform to seamlessly combine both personalized recommendations and reservations.
No longer do you need to consult ‘Best of’ websites & blogs and then use another website for your reservations. We take reservation availability into account for each one of your recommendations so you no longer have to worry about whether a spot will have a table for you AND also be the right fit or the right vibe.
You can use The Scene as many times a day or week as you like, for any type of social outing - from coffee dates to extravagant birthday dinners.This is a one-stop shop for your social life 🥂
The Why
Our founder, Ridhima, moved to NYC at the age of 17 from Singapore. During her early days at NYU, she quickly made contacts in the NYC *scene* and became a personal concierge where she would plan people's date nights, birthday dinners, etc.
She noticed that the #1 question all her clients asked her was "what is the vibe" at a place going to be like. Opentable & Resy were not answering that question and it was taking her minutes to hours to that research as well. She noticed a clear gap in the market for a technical product that focused on vibe driven curation and also guaranteed reservations simultaneously.
What first started with planning outings for her immediate friends circle, quickly grew to doing the same for all of NYU and by junior year, she was waking up to hundreds of texts from unknown numbers every morning, asking her to plan their "scenes" for them. She assisted to her best ability and kept a detailed log of each curation in her Excel sheet.
A few years later, she crowdfunded the initial start up cost (right in the middle of the pandemic) proving that there was a demand for this product, even at at time when we couldn't see the world going back to normal and then officially launched The Scene. Her excel sheet logs went on to be the original prototype for The Scene's algorithm ✨
