about · hyperlocal
vancouver, founded 2025
an iOS app for the city
Hyperlocal is an iOS app for friends and neighbors whose group chats keep killing the hang. It exists because the cost of coordinating community has gotten enormous — and because we’d rather walk over to a porch dinner than scroll another feed. We start in Vancouver, on three blocks, with hand-delivered invites. Then wherever asks.
no. 01
what we’re for
vision
Helping cities flourish
by restoring community.
mission
Empowering people to build community
within everyday moments.
We make the people, places, and possibilities around you visible — then give you the tools, motivation, and structure to engage with them.
no. 02
the why
People aren’t lonely because they don’t want friendship. They’re lonely because the cost of coordinating it has gotten enormous — the friction of finding it, the anxiety of joining it, the energy of following through, the absence of any visible signal that meaningful community is even nearby.
The result is a generation that wants to belong but doesn’t know where. A city full of people who would have shown up — if showing up had been easy, if they’d seen the invite, if someone had hand-delivered it.
We’re building hyperlocal to restore that visibility. To make people, places, gatherings, and moments more visible and emotionally accessible. To shape a culture where participation feels possible again. To help people believe community is still possible.
no. 03
what we won’t do
If hyperlocal works, the result won’t look like a content empire. It will look like more backyard dinners. More porch nights. More neighbors who actually know each other. A city that feels like home again — one block at a time.
no. 04
the stewards
00:00 / 00:30
a note from us
Vancouver.
Thirty seconds.
Recorded by hand.
strategy
I’ve spent the last ten years trying to figure out why cities feel quieter than they should. You can live on a block for five years and not know one person on it — that always struck me as a fixable problem. Hyperlocal is what I kept wishing someone would build.
engineering
I build the app. There’s a version of a Saturday I know well: the address is already in your phone, you’ve told yourself you’ll go, and you spend the afternoon quietly hoping something comes up. Most of my work is for the stretch between that and actually walking in. I want it to be a little easier to show up to the things you really did want to go to.
product
Product is what I do, but what I actually think about is the small moments that decide whether a hang happens at all. Whether you said yes because of who asked. Whether you saw a friend’s name on the list before you walked in. Whether the awkward first ten seconds got smoothed over. The app just tries not to get in the way.
brand
I run marketing — at this stage, basically everything outside the app. The film, the photos, the words people read first. Most of it is showing Vancouver back to itself: the porch dinner, the seawall morning, the coffee walk in the rain. I want it to feel like something you could walk into next weekend, not something you’re watching from the outside.
no. 05
what grounds us
Some of us share a faith that shapes the way we approach this work — the way we think about cities, neighbors, and what it means to build something in service of others. These are two of the verses we keep returning to.
verses we keep
returning to
“Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.”
“not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.”
We’re inviting Vancouver first. Get on the list and we’ll send a link the day we hand-deliver the app.
made in vancouver · iOS-first · trust before scale