222 puts you at a table. You take a long personality survey, rate a stack of statements from one to seven, and 222 seats you with five other people for dinner and then somewhere else afterwards. You do not see who they are beforehand, and you do not see the venue until close to the night. You pay a booking fee for the seat and your own bill at the restaurant. It runs in a short list of cities: Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Washington, Toronto.
Notapub is for the same underlying want, which is to end up in front of people you would not otherwise have met, and it gets there without a ticket, a survey, a night in the diary or a city list. You say what you want. People who fit come to you.
This is not a pub. Ages 13+.
A 222 table is a good bet on a general problem. If what you want is company and a decent evening, six strangers picked for compatibility is a reasonable way to get it, and the fact that you did not choose them is part of why it works.
It is a poor instrument for a specific ask. If you need someone who has shipped a hardware product in China, or who can teach your kid clarinet, the table will not have them in it and there is no way to ask for them. Notapub is built the other way around. The specific ask is the input. You write it and the people it fits are what comes back.
222's survey asks how you sit on humour, risk, politics, spontaneity. That produces a group that will get on for three hours, which is what it is for.
A person is not only their disposition. The parts of you that actually connect you to a stranger tend to be facts: you are moving to Lisbon in April, you keep bees, you are looking for a third for a doubles league. Notapub takes those in the form you already say them, and does not ask you to rate anything on a scale.
222 charges a booking fee per event, in the range of a cocktail, then you pay for dinner. Twice a month for a year is a real line in a budget, and a no-show is charged. Notapub is free and nothing is booked, so there is nothing to be charged for missing.
The bigger gap is where it works. 222 is a handful of metros because the product is a restaurant reservation and needs density to exist at all. Notapub does not need a room. It works where you are, and it works when the person you need is not within driving distance of you, which is most of the time.
Notapub does form groups, and the logic is different from a compatible table. It puts people together when what one of them wants is what another one has: the person with the empty studio, the person with the amp, the person who can drive on Sunday. The group has a reason to exist beyond having been seated together, and it costs nothing to be in.
For meeting people you have not met, yes, and it is free. It does not book restaurants or run events. Nobody organises an evening for you.
Yes. There is no city list. It shows you people near you when there are any, and people anywhere when the thing you want is not a local thing.
No. There is no test and no scale to rate yourself on. You write what you want in your own words.