Mela gives you one link. Guests reply with their name and mobile number, adults and kids get counted, dishes get claimed — and the community stays on the board for the next one.
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Harvest Potluck5 adults · 3 kids · 1 awaiting reply
Sample gathering
This is the sample invitation, exactly as a guest gets it. Tap an answer and watch the organizer’s count change.
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The same potluck, from the first message to the next season. The people you invited become the community.
Priya creates the potluck, picks a design, adds four dishes with how many she needs, and drops the link in the neighborhood chat and lets Mela email the rest. Replies land on the list as they come in, adults and kids counted.
4 things are still needed across the list, and everyone can see which. Each dish closes the moment it’s covered.
The album goes up for everyone who came. The announcement about the winter dinner goes to every member’s phone, and the same people are already on the list.
A birthday needs a headcount once. A congregation and a neighborhood need it every month, with the same people, the same volunteers and the same noticeboard.
Festival RSVPs in the hundreds, the potluck list, volunteer slots for the kitchen and the parking lot, classes with attendance, and announcements every member actually gets.
For churches, temples and mosques →The annual meeting with a real RSVP, the block party with a bring list, issues with a photo and a paper trail, the plumbers and painters neighbors actually used.
For HOAs and neighborhoods →Organizers, members and guests never pay, and there are no ads on invitations or reply pages. Mela is paid for by local businesses that buy a sponsored listing in a community’s vendor directory — the same list where neighbors recommend the people they used.
Sample directory. Fictional businesses.
No. Guests open a link and reply with their name and mobile number. Adults, kids and plus-ones are counted. The iPhone app is for the people who run the gathering or the community.
So a reply lands on the right guest, and a second reply updates the first instead of adding a duplicate. Only the host sees it; other guests never do.
Yes, for organizers, members and guests. There are no ads on invitations or reply pages and no subscription. Communities can choose to show sponsored listings from local businesses in their vendor directory, approved by their admins.
The organizer sees every reply, headcount and dish. A guest sees the names of who else is coming only after replying, and never anyone’s phone number or email.
Guests and community members can do everything from a browser: reply, claim a dish, read announcements, mark attendance. Hosting from the web works too. The organizer app is iPhone-only today.
Yes. Add the dishes with how many you need; each one closes when it is covered and guests claim from the same link they replied on.
No ads on your invitations, free for everyone, as many gatherings as you like. Nothing fancy — it just works.
Questions, ideas, something not working — write to support@joinmela.co. Privacy requests go to legal@joinmela.co.
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