Start with the places you already know
When your group starts, your organizer can bring in the places long-time members already saved in Google Maps, so the first questions get answers.
Good tips shouldn’t move away with your neighbors.
Waypost keeps your community’s recommended places in one living list you reach from WhatsApp. Ask for a pediatrician, a tailor or a burger place the kids will love, and get the places people around you vouch for, with when someone last checked.
For communities that move every few years. Waypost is in development, and we’re looking for groups to try it first.
WaypostYour community’s places
You: kid friendly burger place with vegan options in Hiroo
Waypost: Burger places near Hiroo your community recommends, kid-friendly with vegan options:
1. Harbor Patty Co.Kids’ menu and high chairs. Two vegan burgers.maps.app.goo.gl/…
2. Little GrillPlay corner upstairs. Vegan patty on request.
3. Smash & Co.Big booths, fast service.
Been to Smash & Co. lately? Reply STILL or GONE.Place names are examples.
Ask once. Answer the whole group.
Your group chat stays where it is. Waypost sits one tap away from it.
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Ask Waypost
Tap the Waypost link pinned in your group chat. It opens a private chat where you ask the way you’d ask a friend.
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Forward the answer
Waypost replies with up to three places in one message, written so you can forward it straight back to the group.
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Add what’s missing
No match yet? Send a Google Maps link or a name. Waypost matches it on Google Maps and keeps it for whoever comes next.
Folks come and go. The good places stay current.
A recommendation counts for half as much after a year. When a member says a place is still good, it’s back to full strength. After 18 months with no check, a place is marked as needing one.
The cocktail connoisseur who arrived in 2021
The foodie family who arrived in 2023
The museum master who arrived in 2025
Harbor Patty Co.Rechecked by each new member
A place nobody recheckedTwo early recommendations
Still recommendedMarked as needing a checkNeeds a checkToday20222023202420252026
When a place changes, one reply fixes it for everyone.
Reply to any answer to say a place closed, moved or stopped offering something. If Google Maps also lists it as permanently closed, it comes off the list right away. Otherwise a second member or your organizer confirms it first.
You: Harbor Patty has no vegan burgers anymore
Waypost: Thanks. Vegan options are off for Harbor Patty Co. until another member confirms them. It’s still listed as kid-friendly.
You: Smash & Co. has closed
Waypost: Google Maps also lists Smash & Co. as permanently closed, so it’s off the list for everyone. Reply UNDO if it reopens.
When it’s your turn to move
Leaving? Reply LEAVING and your places stay for whoever comes next. Waypost lists the places you recommended, you reply with the ones that are still good, and each counts at full strength again.
What Waypost knows about you, and what it doesn’t.
Invite-only
Your group’s organizer approves each phone number. A forwarded invite link alone gets no one in.
No location tracking
Waypost never asks where you are. You search by neighborhood name.
Counts, not names
A place shows how many members recommend it, never who.
Months, not days
Dates show the month a place was last confirmed, so nobody can tell who was there yesterday.
Your searches stay yours
What you search for isn’t saved to your name.
Leave anytime
Reply DELETE ME and your account, notes and recommendations are erased from the live database within 30 days, and roll off automated database backups as those backups expire.
Waypost uses WhatsApp’s business platform, so messages to Waypost pass through Meta’s servers, as they do for any business on WhatsApp. Hosting platforms (Netlify and Supabase) keep short-lived request logs that include IP addresses for security and operations.
Start Waypost for your group.
Each community has an organizer, usually whoever already runs the group chat. You approve new members, look at the odd report, and pin the Waypost link in your group.
Waypost is in development. Join the waitlist and we’ll write when the pilot opens.