About WayHopper — Interactive Event Management for Route-Based Events
WayHopper is a location-based event platform for poker runs, scavenger hunts, pub crawls, fundraisers, tourism trails, and multi-stop community events. Organizers build routes, sell tickets, verify QR + GPS check-ins in the app, and publish maps and results—participants join from iOS, Android, or the web.
We build for the organizer in the parking lot, holding a clipboard, with one bar of signal.
Most event software is built for fixed venues and guest lists. WayHopper is built for events that move: poker runs with card stops, scavenger hunts with GPS checkpoints, pub crawls across neighborhoods, chamber shopping passports, and tourism trails that span a downtown or a region.
Those events run on energy and logistics in equal measure. The organizer is on their feet. Cell coverage varies. Sponsors want proof. Participants want to know standings. Stops need QR + GPS validation—not paper sign-in sheets blowing off a clipboard.
WayHopper is map-first because the events are geographic. Operator-first because someone is always running the show. Revenue-aware because ticketing and sponsor stops help fund the next event. And honest about constraints—the app supports offline check-ins when signal drops; participants finish the stop once they are back online.
We are not trying to be a generic event platform for every format. We focus on route-based, location-based experiences where check-ins, maps, and results matter on event day.
History, team & where we work
What WayHopper is built for.
Route-based events where maps, check-ins, and results matter—not generic conference or wedding software.
Poker runs, hunts, crawls, and more
Dedicated playbooks for poker runs, scavenger hunts, pub crawls, yard-sale trails, fundraising rides, tourism events, and community routes—each with scoring and check-in rules that match the format.
Interactive event maps
Organizers pin stops, set geo-radius validation, enforce sequence when needed, and embed public maps participants can follow on event day.
QR + GPS in the app
Participants check in at stops with the WayHopper iOS/Android app. The app supports offline check-ins when signal drops—finish the stop once back online.
Ticketing and Stripe Connect payouts
Sell tickets and keycodes, collect waivers, and receive organizer payouts through Stripe Connect after the event under platform payout rules.
Photos, moderation, and standings
Photo challenges with moderation queues, live leaderboards, poker hand history, and shareable results pages for participants and sponsors.
Six tenets we argue from, not toward.
Geography is the primary axis of the event.
Almost every event we serve is geographic before it is anything else. We design the map first, the schedule second, the table-of-results third. Most software gets this order wrong.
Build for the person on the parking-lot side of the event.
Every screen we ship gets reviewed by an active organizer running >6 events a year. If they can't operate it standing up in the rain with gloves on, it gets re-designed.
The platform should help fund the next event.
Ticketing and sponsor stops are built in. Paid events use Stripe Connect so organizers receive their share after the event under platform payout rules. If we don't help the event break even, we've failed the organizer.
Each vertical gets its own face.
A poker run is not a yard sale is not a chamber passport. We share a backbone but the surface should feel native to whatever you're actually running. No "select your event type" tax.
The app supports offline check-ins when signal drops.
Players take a photo at the stop, keep going, and finish check-in once they're back online. That's a recovery path for dead spots—not a fully offline maps mode.
Every claim ships with a receipt.
Stats on the marketing site link to the customer event they came from. Roadmap items link to the GitHub issue. The phrase "industry-leading" never appears in any string we write.
Platform capabilities organizers rely on.
Talk to people who run events.
Sales, support, and partnerships routes are published on our contact page—with reply windows, not a black hole.
United States first, remote-friendly.
WayHopper is a software platform serving organizers globally. We do not publish unverified office addresses or headcount on this page—reach us through published contact channels.
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