05 · The app
About four miles away
That is the whole of what you learn about where somebody is, and the whole of what they learn about you. A rounded distance, and nothing else.
Never an address. Never a postcode. Never a map. Never a pin.
Your postcode is used to work out who is near you, and it is not shown to anyone. Leave it blank and you simply do not appear in nearby results, or see them.
You can also type somebody else’s postcode — your mother’s, the town you are moving to — and browse from there instead. That works before you have an account.
Why there is no map
A map is a home address with extra steps.
Every listing site draws one, usually as a circle rather than a point, and calls it approximate. Three overlapping circles from three of somebody’s listings is a house.
A rounded number cannot be triangulated the same way. It is less impressive on a screenshot, and it is the reason this product can say “never an address” and mean it.
Where a handover actually happens is agreed afterwards, between the two of you, and meeting places covers how that is suggested.
What browsing is like
Filter, or do not
By category, by distance, by what you typed. Every view is a plain web address you can send to somebody.
Widen when it is thin
If nothing is within five miles, the search widens on its own and tells you it did, rather than showing you an empty page.
Keep an eye on something
Save it to the bottom of your vault. It reserves nothing, joins no queue, and tells the owner nothing about you.
Distance is the useful question
Swaps end with two people meeting, so “is it near me” decides more than price does. A perfect match forty miles away is not a match.
That is why the first thing the site asks for is a postcode, and why it asks before it asks you to sign up for anything.
The eight categories, written as reasons to look rather than as labels, are on categories.