Good movie.
Better company.

The best part of the movies was never the screen. It was the room.

One night in October I walked into a theater not expecting much, and walked out different. The movie mattered — but what stayed with me was everything around it: a dark room full of strangers gasping at the same moment, the conversation spilling out into the parking lot, the feeling that for two hours a room of people who'd never met were somewhere together.

I spent a long time trying to get that back, and kept hitting the same wall — not the movies, the logistics. So I built the thing I kept wishing existed. Read the whole story →