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North — Discover, remember, and share great places with friends
North is like a Pokédex for your favorite places. Easily save, (privately) review, and organize your spots, from coffee shops to restaurants to hotels. Get trusted recommendations from friends, collaborate on lists, and easily share your recs with others.
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@devontivona If Instagram, Snapchat and Google had a baby, it'd be North. Loved the idea, one thing I'd love to see is what are the top trending/more shared placed in the city. This is for when I'm new to a city.
Great timing as it seems that Foursquare City Guide has finally shat the bed!
@chris @chrismessina Woah! The timing is uncanny. I was a HUGE Foursquare user back in the day. Part of the inspiration for North was "what would OG Foursquare look like if it launched in 2024."
Also great to hear from you again! Back in 2015, you hunted our first startup, Pana (then called Native). Your early support was critical in helping us get feedback from our first few hundred users. Hope you are well!
Love this! As a big fan for good food - it's very difficult to know which restaurants are good. Friends on the other hand can have their own taste, but at least they aren't writing fake reviews for money or push reco based on algo. Love how this integrates with other apps to bring in valuable metadata - would try to see if I can replace my thousands of pins in Google Maps.
Big props for trying to build something new! I'm curious how would you monetize? Honestly, if this takes off, it would be an app that could charge a monthly fee? Honestly, I wouldn't mind if the quality is there.
Congrats on the launch @devontivona and team!
I have had a chance to use North since early beta. It’s dreamy for the tons of moments where someone raves about a place or thing that I know I will be near eventually, but not in a timeframe that will be remembered by my memory. Now I take those recos and place them contextually in North lists for future reference. I also do this with memorable spots or itineraries that I want to hold on to for the future or to share with friends the next time someone asks something random like “where should we stay in Indy” (there is a place! It’s amazing!). Great UX, upbeat, loving tone and a huge solve for the increasing number of use cases that arise for me that coincide perfectly with North.
@boulderidea Thanks for the kind words, Sue. Your feedback has been invaluable as we've continued to evolve the product over the years. I remember a specific piece of feedback you had about finding your lists which inspired us to re-do the entire UX of the navigation. And now it is way better!!
Glad to hear that North has helped you bookmark the places you want to remember for later. It makes me happy to know that more people are getting great recs from you as a result!
Congrats to the North team 😋 This sounds like the perfect tool for organizing and sharing favorite spots with friends—excited to see how it enhances travel and local discovery!
it's so clutch being able to share a list to answer the inevitable "where should I go?" when friends come to visit: https://north.industries/list/be...
and they don't even need to download the app (looking at you, mom) to see it!
@dglunz Thanks Danny—and great list! Love all of the personalized notes that you've added to places.
Absolutely beautiful product from @sfelsey & North’s amazing team. ✨The detail, intention & constant updates make this a product completely worthy of the download. Do yourself a favor, and give North a 👀.
@sfelsey @nezhatnico Thanks for the kind words @nezhatnico, they mean a ton! We've really enjoyed having you as an early user.
@devontivona This is such a fantastic idea!
North feels like the ultimate tool for anyone who loves discovering new places and sharing their experiences. I can already imagine how useful it will be for planning trips and finding hidden gems based on trusted recommendations from friends.
The collaborative lists feature sounds particularly exciting—perfect for group trips or even just a night out with friends. Kudos on creating something that brings people closer through shared experiences!
Can't wait to start using it. 🚀
@c_c7 Amazing! I've been right there with you on trying all of these different strategies, including a custom Notion template. Don't forget to import your places from Google Maps—makes it much easier so you're not starting from scratch.
We'd love any/all feedback that you have as you give us a try for your upcoming trip. Feel free to post it here, or shoot me a note directly (you'll get a welcome email from me when you sign up).
Congrats @devontivona, creating North feels like a breath of fresh air in a sea of similar apps.
love the personalized angle you're pitching - saving and sharing places with friends has a unique charm.
Beautiful product! Really nicely buit app and easy to use. I love the ability to share the reviews privately with my friends only or publically if I wish to do so. I will be sharing this app with my friends for sure. Congratulations and best of luck today :-)
Incredible attention to detail and beautifully designed app!
LOVE that you include Google reviews and details compared to what a lot of other apps using other service.
I know it’s early days but would be awesome to eventually have Lists in Australia (happy to even share the 100 or so places I have saved)
Good luck to you guys and congrats on the launch! :)
This sounds like an awesome idea, Devon! I've definitely struggled to keep track of my favorite places across multiple apps. The collaborative lists feature is a game-changer—can't wait to try this out with my friends! 🚀 Looking forward to seeing how North evolves.
Great tool to keep the places I visited in past in pocket. Congratulations for the launch Devon!
Exciting concept, Devon! North sounds like a game changer for all of us who love exploring new places but often feel overwhelmed by options. The emphasis on private reviews and trusted friend recommendations is something I think a lot of people will appreciate—especially without the noise of social media algorithms.
I also love that you focused on flexible organization; with so many places to keep track of, that’s crucial. Can’t believe you’ve put together such a well-thought-out app after a year of refinement—impressive!
I’m definitely going to give North a shot and will import my Google Maps pins to get started. Looking forward to seeing how North develops further! Upvoting! 🚀
Congrats @devontivona ! North sounds like an awesome way to keep track of favorite spots and discover new ones. Love the focus on sharing places with close friends—excited to give it a try!
Hey Devon,
How do you balance privacy concerns with the ability to share recommendations?
For someone who travels frequently, does North have any features to help organize places by trip or location?
Congrats on the launch!
@kyrylosilin Great questions. Re: privacy, your reviews and thoughts are only shared with people who you explicitly allow to see them (either by publishing a list or by adding someone as a friend). You can also mark your thoughts as "incognito", and they will be private to just you—they won't appear in your public lists and friends won't be able to see them.
Re: organizing by location, yes! Check out Smart Lists—they are basically saved filters. So you could build a Smart List to automatically include any of your places for a given destination you are planning to travel, like Paris or London. I do this all the time when I'm collecting recs from friends for an upcoming travel destination.
We're also working on itinerary-building tools (so that you can plan out a trip day-by-day), but we're taking our time on that feature, because we want to get it right. There are so many itinerary tools out there already that miss the mark in our eyes.
Let me know if this answered your questions!
Wow, North sounds like a game-changer for place enthusiasts like me! 🌟 I love the idea of organizing favorites privately and sharing recommendations with friends. Can't wait to dive in and explore! Kudos to you, @devontivona, and the team for creating this! 🚀🙌
@kevinyaoooooo Good question. That's where filters and Smart Lists come in. You can easily filter down your places by category, location, your rating, your tags, and more. And then you can save those filters as an automatically-updating Smart List, so its fast to get back to that set of filters.
This makes managing a large number of saved places really easy—I have over 2,000 saved places!
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