What is Bonder?

Bonder is an events platform for Lithuania: find what is on in Vilnius, RSVP free and host your own events. It runs at bonder.lt, shows public Vilnius events listed on Bonder on a map and a list in English and Lithuanian, and gives private events an invite page reachable only by its link.

Bonder is not related to Bonderus (bonderus.lt, an adhesives company) or to the Bonder app on bonder.me and bonder.us. It is an independent product built in Vilnius.

Why it exists

Event tools usually make you choose. Either a public catalogue, where your birthday looks out of place, or a closed group chat, where nobody outside it will ever find what you are running. Bonder does both from the same tool, and you decide which kind each event is.

A map instead of an endless list

The question is rarely what is happening in Lithuania. It is almost always what is happening near me tonight. A list answers that badly and a map answers it well. Bonder places its listed public events across the city, so you can decide by looking rather than by reading thirty titles.

Only published, public events with a location reach the map. That is not a setting you can flip by accident, it is a rule written into the database query itself.

Private events that are genuinely private

A private event has an invitation link and is excluded from Bonder’s public map, discovery lists and search sitemap. Anyone with the link can open it, including someone it has been forwarded to. Share it only with people you intend to invite.

If the link ends up somewhere you did not intend, you can replace it. The old one stops working, and the people who already said yes get the new one and stay on the list.

A guest list that means something

The event page shows who has already said they are coming. That matters in both directions: the host knows how many chairs to put out, and the guest can see whether their people will be there. A capacity limit and waiting list help manage replies. RSVPs are plans to attend; the host still manages actual admission and the venue’s capacity.

Public event addresses are visible to everyone. For private events, the exact address, full guest names and comments are available to hosts and people who have replied. Access is enforced on the server, not hidden in the browser.

Friends, venues and organisers

An event is easier to say yes to when you know who else is going and where it is. So Bonder keeps track of the people, places and organisers behind events, not only the events themselves.

Bonder next to other event apps

Feature	Bonder	Partiful	Luma	Facebook
Free for hosts and guests	Yes	Yes, Paid add-ons	Yes, For free events	Yes
Public events on a city map	Yes, Vilnius	Not verified in cited sources	Yes	Not verified in cited sources
Private events with a guest list	Yes, Private, link only	Yes	Yes	Yes, Facebook users only
Capacity and waiting list	Yes	Yes	Yes	Not verified in cited sources
Guest chat	Yes	Yes, Comments	Yes	Yes, Discussion posts
See where friends are going	Yes, Follow each other	Yes, Mutuals	Not verified in cited sources	Yes
Organiser pages with past and upcoming events	Yes	Yes, Org profiles	Yes, Calendars	Yes, Pages
Ready-made cover templates	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes, Illustrations
Lithuanian pages	Yes, Discovery pages	Not verified in cited sources	Yes, Machine-translated	Yes

Free, and not as a promotion

Creating an event, publishing it and replying to one all cost nothing. Bonder sells no tickets, so there is no commission that has to come out of someone. If your event is paid, you state the price on the page and sell tickets wherever suits you.

Getting started

• Create the event: title, time, place and a cover. It takes a couple of minutes.
• Choose public or private. Public goes to the map, private goes only to your link.
• Send the link, or let people find you on their own.
• Watch who replies, and message everyone at once before the day.