North

Save, share, and discover new places with friends

4.7•3 reviews•

385 followers

Save, share, and discover new places with friends

4.7•3 reviews•

385 followers

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North is a home for collecting your favorite spots—all over the world—and the easiest place to build your own lists and local guides to share with others.

Free

Launch tags:Coffee•Maps•Dining

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North

Maker

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Hey folks! Devon here, and I’m one of the founders of our small team at North. We built North because we’re big “place” nerds. We love great coffee shops, new restaurant openings, and boutique hotels. But we couldn’t find the perfect place to organize favorites, share them with others, and discover new gems. If you’re similar to us, you probably save pins on Google Maps; see travel TikToks and IG posts and promptly forget about them; share rambling texts with friends when they ask what to see in Paris; and you’ve downloaded a half-dozen apps that sound similar to North. So, we decided to do something crazy, and launch a new product in a crowded space that’s littered with failed startups. Apparently, we’re stupid. 😆 But to us, there were 3 ingredients needed to make the perfect app in this category: - - - - - - - - 1. 🗄️ Flexible and Fast Organization. Each of us has over 2k places saved in North. We can add detailed (private) ratings, quickly find places with flexible filters, and save our most useful filters for later—making it easy to build a lasting and useful catalogue of the best places to spend our time, at home or abroad. Plus, North is for all sorts of places. Most of our users start with restaurants, shops, coffee, and bars. But it’s also great for remembering world-class hotels, cataloguing art museums, or saving great hikes, beaches, and parks. - - - - - - - - 2. 😊 Social; But Good Friends Only. Some of the best places come via recs from friends; they know us well, they have similar tastes, and it’s fun to compare notes once we’ve been. In North, you can easily build collaborative lists together, follow what friends are discovering in realtime, and browse each other’s personal maps. There’s no FOMO—it’s not about bragging, it’s about finding great places, together. No one is posting algo-optimized content that suffers from the “Instagram vs. Reality” problem. And there’s no fake reviews and angry strangers; reviews are private to you and your close friends, so you can feel comfortable sharing your honest and helpful thoughts. - - - - - - - - 3. 💎 Crazy Attention to Detail. We use North every, single, day. And, North should help you explore the world, not suck you into your device. So it needed to be a delight to use, and, frankly, get out of the way so you stop using your phone and check out a new coffee shop instead. It is lightning fast, has beautiful animations, and we’ve been refining the design for over a year. - - - - - - - - If any of this sounds exciting, we’d love it if you’d give North a try. It’s completely free—we’ll add some paid premium features eventually—but we’ll always keep the core product at no cost. Some tips for getting the most out of North: 1. 🗺️ If you use Google Maps, import your saved pins. We built an in-app importer if you are a heavy Google user. Don’t worry—all that hard work hasn’t gone to waste. 2. 👯 Add friends. North is at its best when you can scroll your friends’ activity and find great places they have added. 3. 🌐 Publish some lists. We made published lists the easiest way to send your recs to someone else when they ask: “what are your favorite places in Paris?”. Recipients don’t need North—published lists are beautiful, responsive websites. Here are a few of my favorites: Top of Paris (by me!): https://north.industries/list/23... Top Cocktails in NYC: https://north.industries/list/5b... Favorite Hotels: https://north.industries/list/a0... We’re proud of this launch, but we’re also just getting started. Your feedback matters so much to us. We respond 100% to every comment or piece of feedback you have for us 💬❤️! Devon, Sam, and Kate

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2yr ago

Stella AI

@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.

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2yr ago

@devontivona Congrats on your launch day! Wishing you great succss and new opportunities. What challenges did you ovrcome to get here?

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2yr ago

@devontivona congrats on the launch Devon! north sounds like the go-to solution for keeping track of all those great spots. love that it's all about sharing with close friends. just upvoted and i’m excited to try it out. best of luck to you and the team!

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2yr ago

Osaurus

🔌 Plugged in

Great timing as it seems that Foursquare City Guide has finally shat the bed!

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2yr ago

North

Maker

@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!

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2yr ago

I have had the chance to use this app for a while now and got to test it during our recent trip to Japan. It helped us find so many amazing places that I would have completely passed by otherwise. I am not always the best at planning ahead so the ease that this app brings to making a trip plan and then finding everything with quick filtering abilities has made planning much easier for me already. It also helps me find new places quickly if I don’t have a plan ahead of time. Need a place to eat? See what’s nearby on North. Need the highlights of a spot that you’ve never been to but your friends have? Get ahold of their North list of personal favorites.

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2yr ago

North

Maker

@austin_hunter3 Thanks Austin! I'm so glad that North has made it easier for you to put a plan together for your trips. Hope Japan was a blast! 🍣

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2yr ago

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!

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2yr ago

North

Maker

@dglunz Thanks Danny—and great list! Love all of the personalized notes that you've added to places.

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2yr ago

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 👀.

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2yr ago

North

Maker

@sfelsey @nezhatnico Thanks for the kind words @nezhatnico, they mean a ton! We've really enjoyed having you as an early user.

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2yr ago

North

Maker

@nezhatnico thanks nico!

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2yr ago

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.

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2yr ago

North

Maker

@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!

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2yr ago

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!

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2yr ago

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