Traveler-to-traveler connections with real-time GPS verification of presence. Not "lives here" — "here and now".
Tens of millions of digital nomads and expats — with no service built for their context.
2004 → 2011 → 2020: idealism → for-profit → paywall → host exodus. Lesson: when communication shifts to extraction, engagement collapses.
Couchers, BeWelcome stayed free but stuck with dated UX and empty databases.
Workaway, TrustedHousesitters, Nomad List moved to adjacent niches (volunteering, pet-sitting, community) — never closed travel-dating.
No one fused dating mechanics and travel context in one product.
Connections grounded in time and location — instead of Tinder's "global shuffle". Real presence can't be faked: bots and fakes are filtered at the geolocation layer.
Where I am right now. Online/offline status with time decay.
My home city — a static profile anchor.
Where I'm headed — with dates. Search ahead of time.
The algorithm adapts the feed to your active location: "here and now" → "people from the future" → virtual exploration of a spot, radius-free.
950M+ MAU. Mini Apps + built-in Stars payments — distribution and monetization out of the box.
Post-COVID digital nomad growth 80%+. A growing audience with no service of its own.
Travel dating has no trust layer. GPS verification is our moat.
Infrastructure, audience, and pain converge at one point.
MVP in 4 travel hubs with high expat & nomad density — not global breadth from zero, but critical mass in one spot.
Travel-dating core + GPS verification in one hub.
Rollout across hubs, iterating on feedback.
Stars subscription, scale to new spots.
Looking for: product research, discovery feedback, possibly partnership.