Everything disappears: how keeping works on Waylo
When you leave a place, you get a short last call to choose who to keep. Here’s how it works, and why nobody is ever told who didn’t keep them.
The most important feature in Waylo is the one that removes things.
Every check-in starts a visit. During a visit you can wave, chat, join a quiz or a study sprint, or plan a shared cab. When the visit ends, all of that goes away. There’s no inbox filling up with people you met once at Gate B12 three months ago.
Last call
When you tap Leave, or walk out of the zone with the app open, you get a last call: ten minutes to choose who you’d like to stay connected with. Airports are different: last call there lasts until the door closes, because you might be sitting at the gate for a while yet.
You’ll see everyone you chatted with. Tick the people you’d like to keep.
Keeping is mutual
You only stay connected with someone if they keep you too. For each person you chatted with, there are three possible outcomes:
- Kept. You both chose each other. You’re connected and can talk again later.
- Pending. You kept them; they haven’t decided yet.
- Gone. Either of you didn’t keep the other, or time ran out.
And here’s the part we care about most: nobody is ever told who didn’t keep them. A pending keep that doesn’t happen simply fades away. There is no “Sam didn’t keep you” message, ever.
You stay connected only with people who keep you too. Nobody is told who didn’t.
What never survives the visit
Some things don’t get a last call at all. Group rooms (like a Delay Squad for your flight), games, waves and plans always disappear when the visit ends. If you want to remember something, you can save a line of text to your visit wrap-up. No photos, no message history.
Free and Plus
On the free plan you can keep up to three people per visit, and a kept connection starts fresh with no message history. Plus removes the limit and keeps your chat history with the people you both chose.
Why build it this way
Because it changes how the whole thing feels. Knowing that a conversation ends when the gate closes makes it easier to start one. And knowing that nobody gets a rejection notice makes it easier to say no.
