Slowmad: Trips with Friends

Home is wherever the next stop is. Your friends are the same — scattered across the globe, each on their own route. Slowmad is the one place where all your plans meet. See where your friends are now, where they are headed next, and where your trips cross, while there is still time to do something about it. Not a feed. Not a live location dot. A map of the people you already know. WHEN AND WHERE YOU CAN SEE EACH OTHER If you live the digital nomad life, you find out a friend was in your city last week — afterwards, in a story. That is how reunions get missed. Everyone writes down roughly where they will be, and Slowmad works out where your paths cross: the same place, in the same weeks, with time left to plan. EVERYONE'S SEASON ON ONE BOARD The season board lines up your trips and your friends' on one timeline, a row per person. The weeks you share a city light up. Show a month, a quarter, half a year or a whole year. Filter by space, and double-tap to come back to today. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Put the board on your Home Screen or Lock Screen as a widget, with your friends' faces and the next time you'll meet. One tap opens it in the app. IN YOUR CALENDAR One private subscription link puts your trips into Google, iCloud, Outlook or any other calendar, on your computer too. Read-only: the calendar shows your plans and never changes them. PLAN YOUR TRIPS AROUND EACH OTHER Weighing Lisbon in November? See who will be there then, and move your dates so you land together. Your friends' plans sit beside yours on one map, so your next stop can be the one where you meet. TRAVEL TOGETHER Make a trip public and it gets a page of its own: a photo of the place, the route stop by stop, who is going and when. You decide who can join — anyone, on request, or only with the link — and who can change the route. Members suggest stops, and you accept or decline them in the trip's history. Share the trip with a link or a QR code. PLANS, NOT A TIMETABLE Nobody knows their exact dates months ahead, which is why an ordinary calendar stays empty. Slowmad takes the dates you actually have: • "all of October" • "≈ 5 November" • "about three weeks" • "from the 20th, no end yet" An approximate plan is a real plan here, and crossings are found from it just the same. SAY IT OUT LOUD Hold the microphone and say "Istanbul on the fifteenth for about three weeks." Slowmad turns that into a trip — the place, the dates, the note. Plans change, so say that too: "Make Istanbul the 17th, Lisbon is off, and add Tbilisi in December." You see exactly what would change, switch off anything you did not mean, and confirm. Typing works too. TALK IT OVER Every profile and every public trip has its own wall: posts, photos, GIFs and replies. React, mention a friend with @, or attach a trip to a post. A trip's changes show up on its wall too. Notifications tell you who replied, reacted or followed you, and you choose which ones are pushed. CROSSINGS FIND THEMSELVES When your stay overlaps a friend's, you both see it in advance. On the map, and on the trip itself. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT • By default your plans are seen by your friends and your spaces only. A trip is public only when you make it public • No device location. The app never asks for it and cannot read it • No movement history, no check-ins, no tracking, no advertising • Any trip can be private, visible only to you • Report or block anyone from their own screen, and delete a trip or your whole account, from inside the app IT SHOULD FEEL INSTANT Your plans live on the phone, not behind a spinner. Open the app and they are already there. TWO SKINS Ticket and Club: two complete looks, each correct in light and dark. Pick the one you like. English and Russian throughout. slowmad.club