Our rules
Four commitments, in plain words. We publish them here because a promise that's written down in public is harder to quietly break. If we ever violate one of these, you'll be able to point at this page.
We never sell neighbor data.
No advertising. No data sale. No targeting — structurally, not as a line in a policy nobody reads.
There is no advertising system inside our products into which your data could flow, because we never built one. You cannot leak what does not exist. Our products are paid for by utility and local patronage, never by attention.
Businesses get a place, not a voice.
A local business can support the place it belongs to — the way a hardware store buys the outfield banner at the Little League field. That is standing: visible, civic, and quiet.
What it is not: an ad. Flat fees, no bidding, no feed insertion, no push notifications, no national chains. Hyper-local granularity is what makes it affordable to a one-truck business — you sponsor a place, you never target its people.
We measure success in gatherings, not minutes.
The rest of the internet counts your minutes. We count your gatherings.
Our products are deliberately anti-engagement. The win condition is you putting the phone down and being somewhere, with someone. This site is built the same way — it is designed to be left.
Community is the verifier.
Trust comes from people, not paperwork. Neighbors vouch for neighbors, and for the local businesses they already know.
No data brokers. No ID uploads that fail renters and young people. A vouch proves you are real and known; where we need to confirm something, we verify and then delete.
How sponsorship actually works
Rule 2 is the one people ask about, so here it is in full. Local businesses can buy standing — a visible, civic show of support for a place — at a flat fee. No bidding wars, no “boost,” no insertion into anyone's feed, no push notifications, no national chains.
The unlock is hyper-local granularity: because a sponsorship is tied to a specific place rather than a demographic, it's cheap enough for a one-truck plumber and worthless to a company that wants to target strangers. You sponsor a place. You never target its people.