The Party Community Operating System
PartyMan is the software behind the parties people talk about for the rest of the year. Guest lists that remember everyone across every party you've ever thrown. RSVPs that actually come back. Badges, karma, votes and bets that turn a guest list into a community — and a live wall in the corner of the room that makes it all visible at 2am.
The thing nobody tells you
Forty people. Six who never reply. Four who reply "maybe" and mean no. Two vegans, one nut allergy, someone who needs a lift from the station, and a spreadsheet that died in 2023. Then next year you start again from nothing.
Names, numbers, who's with whom, who came last time, who said yes and vanished. PartyMan keeps one guest book across every party you've ever thrown, so party number nine starts from party number eight rather than from a blank page.
Invitations by email and WhatsApp, a chase list ranked by who's been quiet longest, one-tap nudges, and a record of exactly what each person was sent and when — so nobody gets asked twice and nobody gets missed.
Most party tools stop at the door. This one keeps going: badges awarded, karma banked, votes counted, photos filed, and a Party Journey each guest can scroll through before the next invitation lands.
Two rooms, one system
Every guest gets a personal, password-free page for the party. You get the room behind it — every number live, every guest one click away.
What's in the box
Start with the guest list and invitations. Turn the rest on when you want it — every game, every channel and every theme is a switch per event.
One record per human, reused for every party. Partners linked so couples list together. Admin tags, notes, avatars pulled from six sources, CSV import, and filters for every slice you actually chase.
Personal magic links — no accounts, no passwords. Configurable form: drinks, dietary needs, nights staying, travel, plus five custom questions of your own and an anonymous confession box.
Per-event templates for both. WhatsApp sends go through your own account with pacing, delivery verification and a once-only post-RSVP welcome that fires by itself.
Award badges for the things people actually do. Karma accrues across every party you've thrown, scores a leaderboard, and unlocks a trophy cabinet each guest can show off.
Award categories with cheer messages, live polls for the decisions you'd rather crowd-source, and a pari-mutuel prediction market where guests stake karma on how the night goes.
A three-column live display for the corner of the room: vote results, karma standings, rotating portraits and guest answers. Nine saved layouts and OLED burn-in protection.
One tap turns the entire guest experience into a Weyland-Yutani terminal, an FBI case file, a first-contact console or an 1898 broadsheet — with two AI characters to talk to.
A concierge that answers "what time does it start" a hundred times so you don't. Themed in-character chats. AI portrait renders. Drafted chase messages.
Your own domain per event, an open REST API, an MCP server so an AI assistant can run your party, and a self-hosted install where the guest data never leaves your control.
Event phases
A party isn't one thing. The weeks before, the night itself and the week after are three different jobs — so the guest page becomes three different pages, on its own, without you touching a setting.
Big clock, ticket stub, who's coming so far, RSVP nudges, and info pages that unlock on a schedule you set. Anticipation is a feature.
The DJ line-up and running order surface as full-width blocks, and a one-tap voting panel appears. Party day runs past midnight until 6am, because 1am is exactly when someone checks the line-up.
The countdown becomes a days-ago card, results open up, photos land in the album and the badges get handed out. Three zeros under "until doors open" helps nobody.
The long game
The features that matter most are the ones that span parties. Karma earned at last summer's barn party is still on the board this Halloween. The badge someone won for feeding thirty people is on their profile forever.
The room itself
Open one URL on the TV in the corner and leave it. Vote results with the cheer messages people wrote, the karma standings, and everyone's portraits rotating past. It is the single best thing you can do to make forty people feel like one party.
Themes
Four complete alternate skins for the entire guest experience — not a colour swap, a different world. Every page a guest can visit gets rewritten in that voice, with its own soundtrack and, for two of them, a character to talk to.
Green phosphor ship's terminal. CRT hum. MOTHER answers your questions, in character, and will not admit she's a chatbot.
Manila folders on basement navy, typewriter faces, redacted venue. Agent Scully takes your statement.
Mayflower Project consoles, a CSS Devils Tower and a playable five-tone lightboard the mothership answers.
An 1898 broadsheet reporting the landing. Blackletter masthead, EXTRA! stamp, distant ULLA horn.
Who it's for
Turn on the guest list, the RSVP form and one email template. Ignore everything else. You'll still get dietary requirements collected properly and a page you can send instead of typing the address out fourteen times.
The sweet spot. Nights-staying, travel and sleeping arrangements collected on the form; jobs claimed off a board; polls for the dinner time; the TV wall on Saturday night; badges and karma on Sunday.
Multi-day schedules and stage line-ups that unlock on the day. Capacity tracking against a venue limit. Attendance check-off at the gate on a phone. Its own domain, its own theme, its own everything.
Ready when you are
Self-hosted, containerised, Postgres-backed and yours. Bring a domain, an email key and a guest list — the first invitation can go out this afternoon.