Create an event. Then answer it as a guest.

A sample potluck for a fictional neighborhood association, prefilled so you can start. Edit anything, preview the invitation, reply the way a guest would, and watch the organizer’s numbers change. It takes about two minutes.

Prefer to watch?

What your guests will open

Updates as you type. The real invitation is a link you share anywhere — WhatsApp, iMessage, email.

The invitation

This is the page a guest lands on. One link covers everyone; guests reply with their name and mobile number.

Share one link

WhatsAppPaste the link in the group. Guests tap and reply.

Text or emailSame link. No app, no account.

Invite-onlyOr give each person their own private link, so you can see who hasn’t replied.

In the demo the link goes nowhere. In Mela it opens exactly this invitation.

View as a guest

Will you be joining?

Who’s coming so far

Guests see this list once they have replied. Names are sample data.

Organizer view

What Priya and Daniel see

The bring list

Each item closes when it’s covered. In the app the organizer can add items, set quantities and nudge whoever hasn’t replied.

That was the whole loop.

The sample event was never published, and nothing you typed left this page. A real one takes the same two minutes.

On iPhoneThe app runs the whole community: invitations, the noticeboard, classes, volunteers, albums.

From the webCreate and host an event from any browser, with the same guest link.

Your guestsReply from a link with a name and a mobile number. No app, no account.

Create a real event on the web Get Mela for iPhone

Your demo edits are not carried over; the real form starts blank.

Where to next

For congregations →For HOAs and neighborhoods →Everything Mela does →Guides for organizers →