Welcome to App Week's Health & Wellness Hootenanny!

​This is a casual meet-and-greet where we’ll connect, swap ideas, and have fun. At some point, we’ll go around and each share one thing we’ve learned recently and what our main bottleneck is. The goal is simple: learn from each other and enjoy good company.

​Why Health & Wellness?
Apps in this space face unique challenges and opportunities, and it’s often helpful to jam with folks who “get it.” That said, everyone’s welcome—no need to be building in Health & Wellness to attend.

​The Venue: 169 Bar
We’ll be gathering at 169 Bar, a 100+ year-old Lower East Side institution. Expect soul, funk, R&B, acid jazz, disco, New Orleans grooves, and a leopard-print billiard table. Open since 1916 (back when it was infamously known as the “Bloody Bucket”), 169 is one of the last original bars in one of the last original neighborhoods in Manhattan. In short: funky, historic, and very much alive.

​Perks for Early Birds
The first ten people to arrive will get food (empanadas, dumplings, or cajun popcorn) plus two drinks—alcoholic or non-alcoholic.

​Your Host: Toby Sola
The event is hosted by Toby Sola, founder of Brightmind Meditation (finally something more sophisticated than Headspace!). Toby has been teaching meditation for two decades. His craft as a teacher has been refined through years of monastic training and close collaboration with the world-renowned teacher Shinzen Young. Toby spent 1.5 years trying to build RevenueCat before finding RevenueCat and effortlessly installing the SDK. Toby has mindfully consumed countless Picklebacks at 169 over the years and is obsessed with the bar's laid back vibes and excellent tunes.