Android In development · not on Google Play yet
fnder is a classifieds app that starts from where you are standing. Every ad in the feed is sorted by how far away it is — and the distance is real, worked out from your own position rather than a city somebody typed into a form.
10 km
The furthest the feed will ever look
6
Categories, from for-sale to wanted
3 steps
From an empty form to a published ad
5
Languages, including the app's own chrome
About fnder
Most classifieds sites ask which city you are in and then show you everything in it — a sofa an hour's drive away, a tutor on the other side of the river, a job you would spend two hours a day travelling to.
fnder asks a smaller question: what is near me right now? It reads your position once, with your permission, and orders every ad by distance from it. A cycle 1.1 km away sits above a better cycle 8 km away, because the nearer one is the one you will actually go and look at.
That is the whole idea, and everything else follows from it. The feed stops at 10 km. Chat is attached to the ad rather than to a profile. The person you are talking to is, almost always, someone you could walk to.
How it works
Open it and the neighbourhood is already there. Post in three screens. Talk on the ad itself. Meet, or do not — it is your street either way.
The feed opens on the ads closest to you, newest first within the distance you have chosen. A line at the top names the place it is reading — so you can see at a glance whether the app has understood where you are.
Pick a category, add up to six photos, write it in your own words. The form reads what you wrote and pulls out the phone number, the meeting place and the time as chips you can check — and tells you plainly that a phone number in an ad is public. The last step draws the ad exactly as the feed will draw it, before anyone else sees it.
Anyone can mark an ad interested, save it, or ask a question in the threaded comments where everybody can see the answer. When it gets specific, chat opens on the ad itself — with the ad pinned to the top of the thread, so neither of you has to ask "which one?"
Every ad is screened against a blocklist before it is published, and the poster is told what to fix on the form rather than after the fact. Every ad and every person can be reported; blocking is symmetric, so neither of you sees the other again — and the app says so in plain words before you confirm.
Features
The categories are the ones a street actually uses. Each one asks for the right things — a rental wants a deposit and a free-from date, a job wants hours and pay.
Furniture, electronics, vehicles. A price, whether it is negotiable, and up to six photos with a cover you choose.
Rooms, shops, equipment. The form asks for size, furnishing, deposit, bills and the date it is free from.
Tuition, repairs, labour. A starting price if you have one, and the area you cover — because the whole point is that you are nearby.
Local hiring. The role, the hours, the pay, the skills needed and how to apply — for work within walking or riding distance.
Giving something away. No price field at all — just what it is, what condition it is in, and when it can be collected.
Looking for something. Say what you need, the condition you would accept and your budget, and let the street answer.
You set the radius; the feed obeys it. 2 km, 5 km or 10 km — the default is 5 km — and the 10 km ceiling is enforced by the database, not only by the app, so it holds even for a modified client. Search and category filters work inside the same circle.
Messages arrive in real time, and the ad they are about is pinned to the top of the thread. You can send a photo — "is this the scratch you meant?" — and see when your message has been read. A safety reminder sits in the thread itself, not buried in a help page.
How fnder helps
These are the kinds of thing the app is built for. They are illustrations of how it is meant to be used — not customer stories, because fnder has not launched yet.
It has not moved in a year, and posting it on a city-wide site means messages from people an hour away who never turn up. On fnder it goes out to the few streets where somebody can walk over, look at it and wheel it home the same evening.
For sale · an interest count tells you if the price is right
Somebody three lanes over fixes taps and has said so in a Services ad, with the hours they work and the area they cover. You ask in the comments where everyone can see the answer, then move to chat to agree a time. No directory, no call centre.
Services · ask in public, agree in private
A part-time job two minutes from home beats the same job across town, for both sides. The same board carries the study table somebody is giving away and the request from somebody looking for one — Free and Wanted are categories, not afterthoughts.
Jobs, Free and Wanted · the board your street would have had
The app
Three of the screens you will spend your time in. Switch themes with the button in the header — these follow it, the way the app follows your phone.
Place name, search, category strip, then the ads — each one a card with who posted it, how far away they are, how long ago, the price, the photos and what other people have already done about it.
Category, then details, then review. The description field reads what you wrote and offers back the phone number, place and time it found — with a warning that a number in an ad is public to everyone, not only to the person you had in mind.
Chat is attached to the ad, so the thread carries the photo, the title and the price at the top of the screen. Messages arrive live, photos can be sent, and the safety reminder sits in the thread where it is actually read.
About these screens. They are drawn in the browser from the app's own layout, colours and icon set rather than inserted as screenshots, so they stay sharp on any display and follow the theme you have chosen. The ads in them are invented examples.
fnder is in development and there is no public store listing yet. Ask for early access and you will hear from a person, not a mailing-list robot — Android first.
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