We love mahjong. We build software. This was inevitable.
mahj.events is built in Austin by a small team that plays mahjong regularly and builds software for a living.
How it started
A couple of years ago, my wife and I started playing American Mahjong. We were hooked fast. The strategy, the rhythm, the social side, the weekly ritual of getting together with friends. It quickly became something we genuinely looked forward to.
But organizing games was messy.
Group texts got buried. Spreadsheets got outdated. Venmo requests felt clunky. It was too easy to lose track of who was coming, who was subbing, who had played recently, and which hands you had already made.
I went looking for software that could help. There were plenty of generic event tools, but nothing that really understood mahjong.
Why we built Mahj
Most event apps treat a mahjong game like any other meetup.
It is not.
Mahjong has its own rhythm, its own logistics, and its own language. A four-player table matters. Subs matter. The card matters. Tracking hands matters. The social flow of a recurring game matters.
We wanted something built for the way mahjong groups actually work.
So we built it for ourselves first. Then we kept improving it.
mahj.events started as a tool for our own group and grew from there. Every feature exists because a real mahjong player needed it, not because a roadmap needed one more bullet point.
What we’re building
We are not trying to build an everything app.
We are building focused, useful software for mahjong players, hosts, instructors, and communities.
That means tools that help you:
- organize games without group-text chaos
- fill tables and manage subs more easily
- keep players informed
- track hands and progress in a way that actually fits the game
The goal is simple: make mahjong easier to organize and more enjoyable to play.
What makes Mahj different
Built specifically for mahjong
Not repurposed event software. Not a generic scheduling app.
Made by people who actually play
We use this ourselves and care about the details that other tools miss.
Focused over bloated
We’d rather build a few things really well than pack the product with features nobody needs.
Mahj exists because we wanted better software for a game we love.
We think other players want that too.
— Michael, Founder