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In development · launching in Newfoundland
RouteFeed is a travel discovery app that folds the map app, the review site, and the video feed into a single map. Places, live sightings, and traveler videos, all pinned to the real world.
↓ The map behind this text is real — the app's own map, same tiles, same data, live in your browser. Explore it and tap any place.
The idea
A map app tells you where things are. A review site tells you if they're good. A video feed shows you what it's actually like, but has no idea where you are. RouteFeed connects all three around a single anchor: the place itself.
Open the map. It's the home screen, not a tab buried in an app.
A food truck, a trail, an iceberg that showed up this morning.
Short traveler videos filmed at that spot. What it's actually like, from people who were there.
One coral button: Take me there.
Every video is uploaded at a real place, and every place collects videos. Travelers fill the map in as they go. That is the engine: the map shows where, the people who use it fill in what.
It has every business on earth, but you either type a name you already know or scroll ranked lists, sponsored pins, and review walls. To learn about a place you read text from strangers, and the travel-worthy spots sit buried between gas stations and dentists, because every POI on the planet is drawn on the same map.
RouteFeed is discovery first, and travel only. Pick any area with the location picker and look around it virtually: what is there, and what travelers are filming, as short videos pinned to real places instead of review walls. Like a video and you are one tap from that exact spot on the map. No ads deciding what you find.
The Snap Map is built for checking where your friends are. Snaps fade after a day, so nothing accumulates at a place. You cannot filter for food, trails, or sights, and it cannot take you anywhere: no routing, no offline maps, no car screen.
RouteFeed keeps every video attached to its place, so each spot builds a video history you can browse before you go. It covers one thing: travel, food, and exploring. And it's built to get you there — offline maps work today; on-device routing and the car screens are on the roadmap. One app for the whole trip.
The product
A guided mockup of the core loop — the map itself is already real (it's behind the headline above); video is the current build. Click around inside the phone.
Tap a video ▶
What's already real
RouteFeed doesn't rent its places from a maps API — it owns them. Every named place in Newfoundland — lighthouses, trails, coves, cafés — lives in RouteFeed's own catalog, each one classified and given a short, fact-checked description. Tap anything and it opens instantly.
You can try this right now: the hero map up top is the live catalog. Tap Signal Hill.
Icebergs drift. Whales move on. Food trucks park somewhere new. RouteFeed treats these as time-bound places: their pins carry their freshness and expire when the sighting goes stale, so the map never lies to you.
The pulsing pins on the hero map are live sightings from the real database — when one expires, it disappears here too.
Rural Newfoundland has long stretches with zero coverage, and that's exactly where the good stuff is. Offline map downloads are built and working today: pick a region, take the whole map with you.
Next on this front: routing computed on the phone itself, the way Organic Maps and OsmAnd do it — no routing servers, no dead zones.
Downloaded region · on-device routing planned
Roadmap
Built in the open toward a ~2027 launch. Foundation first, screens second.
Theme system, localization, routing, CI, dev/prod flavors.
Firebase, security rules, accounts with guest→real linking, team-based business model with ranked roles.
Custom light/dark basemap, 3D buildings, dynamic tilt, offline region downloads, live GPS.
Owned place catalog — AI-cleaned and owner-curated — permanent place identities, instant search, server-side verified creation.
The catalog baked into RouteFeed's own vector tiles, published daily to a global CDN as dated builds — apps switch atomically, rollback is one field.
Upload at a place, place feeds, nearby Discover feed, moderation & reporting.
On-device routing, region packs, corridor alerts, CarPlay / Android Auto.
Business dashboard, place claiming, official videos, promotion.
The builder
RouteFeed is designed and built end to end by Iffath Raza Chowdhury: product, data model, map pipeline, backend, and app. Every feature ships with its failure states, every provider sits behind an interface, and every decision is written down before it's coded.
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