Eight opens one city at a time. We build density before we expand, because a synchronized 20:00 only works when the room is full. Tonight, that room is in Lisbon.
Tinder won by opening at one college. Hinge won by opening at one city. Density beats geography.
Eight is synchronized, the room opens at 20:00 Lisbon. A scattered international base = the same 30 people every Tuesday = the night dies.
So we go deep before we go wide. The room only works when the room is full.
Those numbers aren't arbitrary. They're the smallest room that reliably produces variety, the threshold where a Tuesday night feels like a real city instead of a small club.
The rule is public. The counter is public. When your city hits it, we open the doors, and we tell everyone.
Email, city, gender. No video, no ID, no profile. Sixty seconds and you're on the list.
Every verified friend you refer moves your city up the queue. Density is built by you, not by us.
When the threshold hits, you have two weeks to record your verification video. The early list gets the first Tuesday.
Eighteen months in Lisbon. Four hundred and eighty couples. This is what density does.
It's tempting to flip a switch and call yourself global. Most apps do. They end up with thin rooms in fifty cities and zero dinners in any of them.
We did the opposite. Eighteen months, one city, four hundred and eighty couples. We know what a full Tuesday looks like now, and that's the only thing worth exporting.
If you want Eight in your city, tell us. We'll get there when the room is ready, not before. The room only works when the room is full.