Name: North
Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)

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.

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

@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.

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

@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!

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!

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!

North has been crucial for replacing my mess of notes and google maps lists! Such an awesome product with great design and functionality 👏

That sounds like an incredibly useful app! Great job!

Good place organizer! But I cannot use this in South Korea. 🥲

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