Vybe — log the night, remember the year.

You can remember the meals, not the year.

Most people in their late 20s and early 30s in a city have a Google Maps starred-places list that is functionally useless. They’ve been to 200 spots, can remember 12, and can’t tell you what they did three Saturdays ago.

Vybe is the layer that turns “where did we go that one Friday” into a real, searchable, social memory — without becoming Yelp or Foursquare or another algorithmic feed. The unit of value is your friends, not strangers.

Decisions the algorithmic apps won’t make.

• Friend-graph first. The default view is what your crew is doing tonight, not what an algorithm thinks you’d like.
• Human editorial drops — actual humans curating “12 listening rooms worth your Friday” instead of an SEO floor.
• Rankings are personal. Your 92/100 isn’t the same as anyone else’s 92/100, and the app doesn’t pretend otherwise.
• Real perks from real venue partners, tied to visits the app verified — not just any phone with the app installed.

Honest status.

Closed beta in one city with a small friend group. Venue partner outreach is the bottleneck — building a perks engine that actually pays out is hard, and convincing a venue to give a stranger’s app inventory is harder.

Mobile-only by design. The phone is where the night is — a web app would lose the moment.

Three problems we’re still solving.

• Venue verification without being creepy. Geofence + check-in pattern + receipt OCR; not always-on location.
• Perks economics. Venues need this to pay for itself; users need the perks to be real and frictionless. Not yet certain it pencils out at scale.
• Friend-graph cold start. Vybe is useless without friends on it. The editorial drops are partly there to make the empty state worth opening.