RouteFeed
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RouteFeed
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In development · launching in Newfoundland
RouteFeed is a travel discovery app that folds the map app, the review site, and the video feed into a single map. Places, live sightings, and traveler videos, all pinned to the real world.
↓ The map behind this text is real. It is the app's own basemap, rendered live in your browser.
The idea
A map app tells you where things are. A review site tells you if they're good. A video feed shows you what it's actually like, but has no idea where you are. RouteFeed connects all three around a single anchor: the place itself.
Open the map. It's the home screen, not a tab buried in an app.
A food truck, a trail, an iceberg that showed up this morning.
Short traveler videos filmed at that spot. What it's actually like, from people who were there.
One coral button: Take me there. Routing built in.
Every video is uploaded at a real place, and every place collects videos. Travelers fill the map in as they go. That is the engine: the map shows where, the people who use it fill in what.
It has every business on earth, but you either type a name you already know or scroll ranked lists, sponsored pins, and review walls. To learn about a place you read text from strangers, and the travel-worthy spots sit buried between gas stations and dentists, because every POI on the planet is drawn on the same map.
RouteFeed is discovery first, and travel only. Pick any area with the location picker and look around it virtually: what is there, and what travelers are filming, as short videos pinned to real places instead of review walls. Like a video and you are one tap from that exact spot on the map. No ads deciding what you find.
The Snap Map is built for checking where your friends are. Snaps fade after a day, so nothing accumulates at a place. You cannot filter for food, trails, or sights, and it cannot take you anywhere: no routing, no offline maps, no car screen.
RouteFeed keeps every video attached to its place, so each spot builds a video history you can browse before you go. It covers one thing: travel, food, and exploring. And it gets you there, with routing built in, offline maps, and Android Auto and Apple CarPlay planned. One app for the whole trip.
The product
This is a working walkthrough of the finished product experience. Click around inside the phone.
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Signature features
Icebergs drift. Whales move on. Food trucks park somewhere new. RouteFeed treats these as time-bound places: their pins carry a freshness timestamp and expire when the sighting goes stale, so the map never lies to you.
Dynamic places expire 48 hours after their last position update unless refreshed. This is enforced in the data model, not by a cleanup job.
On a road trip, the best stop is the one you didn't know about. While you drive, RouteFeed watches the road ahead and shows one small card you can read at a glance. Never a feed, never a video on the car screen.
Corridor geofencing along the route ahead. No constant GPS polling, light on battery, with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay support planned.
Rural Newfoundland has long stretches with zero coverage, and that's exactly where the good stuff is. RouteFeed is built offline-first: downloaded map regions, and routing computed on the phone itself, the way Organic Maps and OsmAnd do it.
Region packs bundle map tiles with a routing graph; an embedded engine (Valhalla) computes turns on-device. No routing servers, no dead zones, no scaling bill.
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Roadmap
Built in the open toward a ~2027 launch. Foundation first, screens second.
Theme system, localization, routing, CI, dev/prod flavors.
Firebase, security rules, accounts with guest→real linking, team-based business model with ranked roles.
Custom light/dark basemap, 3D buildings, dynamic tilt, offline region downloads, live GPS.
Owned place catalog, permanent place identities, instant search, server-side verified creation.
Upload at a place, place feeds, nearby Discover feed, moderation & reporting.
On-device routing, region packs, corridor alerts, CarPlay / Android Auto.
Business dashboard, place claiming, official videos, promotion.
The builder
RouteFeed is designed and built end to end by Iffath Raza Chowdhury: product, data model, map pipeline, backend, and app. Every feature ships with its failure states, every provider sits behind an interface, and every decision is written down before it's coded.
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