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The local things nobody tells you about.

Not the top ten restaurants. The pop-up that ends on Sunday. The free piano in the station's west wing. The recycling bin hidden inside the IKEA.

  • 🛠️

    Battery + bulb recycling bin inside the IKEA

    Takes batteries, bulbs and old chargers. No purchase, nobody staffs it, everyone walks past.

    🛠️ Useful · Leslieville

  • 🎪

    Print fair in the parking garage, four days left

    Temporary things carry an end date here, so the map stays honest instead of filling with places that closed last spring.

    🎪 Pop-up · 4 days left

  • 🥟

    The bakery counter at the back of the grocery store

    Looks like a regular supermarket. The back counter is a proper bakery, and the tarts are gone by ten.

    🥟 Food · Little Portugal

Three things, and one of them is optional.

  1. 1

    Open the map where you are

    No account needed to look. Move the map anywhere and see what locals have marked, filtered down to what you actually want.

  2. 2

    Drop what you know

    Name it, say why a stranger would care, then add the part a map pin can't: which door, which floor, and what day it stops existing.

  3. 3

    Mark what surprised you

    One signal, not five stars. "I never would have known" is the only rating that means anything here, so it is the only one we collect.

You decide what gets built.

Every idea and bug report lives on a public board inside the app. Anyone can post, everyone can vote, and each one carries a status you can check. No contact form, no black hole.

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Open
Posted, not triaged yet. Votes decide what gets looked at first.
Planned
We agree and it is on the list.
In progress
Someone is building it right now.
Shipped
Live in the app. The thread stays up.
Not planned
A real answer with a reason, rather than silence.

You already know something good.

Every city is full of things that never make it into a guide, because nobody thought they were worth writing down.

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