Near beats good
When something nearby and something better are both on offer, the feed shows the near one first. If that is wrong for you, widen the radius — but the app will not quietly do it for you to fill a screen.
About us
A marketplace the size of a neighbourhood
fnder started from a small irritation: every classifieds app asks which city you are in, and then shows you an entire city. Almost nothing in a city is useful to you. The few streets around you are.
In development — no public store listing yet
Android first
Independent project
The idea
A noticeboard in a shop window works because everybody reading it is standing in the same street. You do not have to filter it, search it or tell it where you live. Its whole usefulness comes from where it is.
fnder is that noticeboard, carried around. It reads your position once, with your permission, and sorts every ad by how far away it is. A cycle 1.1 km away appears above a better cycle 8 km away, because the near one is the one you will actually go and see. The feed stops at 10 km — not as a default you can turn off, but as a limit the server enforces.
Everything else in the app follows from that one decision. Chat hangs off the ad instead of off a profile. An ad stays pinned where it was posted, so it does not follow you across town. There are six categories and they are the ones a street actually uses: things for sale, rooms and equipment to rent, services, local jobs, things being given away, and things people are looking for.
What makes it different
- Distance on every card, from your device's own fix — not a city you typed in
- A hard 10 km ceiling, enforced in the database
- Chat attached to the ad, with the ad pinned above the thread
- A cap of three ads a day per account, and exact duplicates refused
- No ads, no analytics SDK, nothing to sell about you
Principles
Four things we decided early and have not changed
Your position is yours
The app stores one current position, not a history, and never shows it to another user — other people see a distance and a place name. The row is readable only by your own account.
Say the awkward thing
The compose form tells you a phone number in an ad is public. The chat thread carries a safety notice. The block dialog explains what blocking actually does. Warnings belong where the decision is made.
Work in the user's language
English, हिन्दी, বাंলা, मराठी and தமிழ் — and not just the labels. Date pickers, menus and the text-selection bar come through translated too, so a Hindi app is not an English app wearing a hat.
Where the project is
Honestly: not launched yet
It would be easy to write a page implying a thriving marketplace. Here is the real state of things instead.
Working today
- Sign-up and sign-in, profiles and avatars.
- The nearby feed, with search, category filters and the radius setting.
- Posting an ad in three steps, with photos, drafts and a preview.
- Interest marks, saved ads, and threaded comments with replies and likes.
- Real-time chat with photos and read receipts.
- Reporting, blocking, and automated screening before an ad is published.
- Light and dark themes, and five languages.
- Sharing an ad as a link that opens the app when it is installed.
Not there yet
- No store listing. There is no public download, which is why this site asks for an email instead of pointing at Google Play.
- Android only. The iOS build has not been configured.
- No in-app account deletion. It is an email request for now — see account and data deletion.
- Push notifications are not switched on. The app shows notifications in-app; delivery to a closed app is not yet configured.
- No payments, no escrow, no buyer protection — and none planned. fnder is a noticeboard; see the terms.
Why say all this? Because the alternative is a launch
page that implies things the app does not do, and the first person to
download it finds out. An app about trusting a neighbour should start by
being straight with them.
Want to try it?
Early access goes out to a small number of people at a time, in places where there are enough ads for the feed to be worth opening.