New Orleans first · Our own product
No followers.
No likes.
No ranking.
A social platform for getting together in person — with the scoreboard taken out, and making a plan put in one place.
Why we built it
Something has changed in how people think about social media. The platforms most of us use are built on a scoreboard — followers, likes, a rank — and the research links it to how people feel about themselves.
775 colleges
When Facebook arrived on American campuses, one college at a time, the economists who tracked it found it worsened students' mental health — and that it hit hardest the students most likely to see themselves as comparing badly to their peers. Their explanation, in their words: Facebook "fostering unfavorable social comparisons."
American Economic Review, 2022. More than 430,000 student surveys across 775 US colleges.
36,583 people
Pool 54 studies, and comparing yourself upward online is linked to lower self-esteem and higher anxiety — consistently, across countries and ages.
Frontiers in Psychology, 2026. A meta-analysis. A correlation, not a proven cause.
Around 1%
The platforms know. Instagram tested hiding like counts. Its own research found people cared less about likes and compared themselves less. It shipped the feature switched off by default — the test had cost around 1% of revenue.
Harvard Kennedy School, 2023, from Instagram's internal documents.
So the scoreboard is not an accident, and nobody who has one is going to take it down.
The platforms we have are failing the people on them, and nothing better has taken their place. That is why NuPlans exists: a social platform that brings people together in person, and never ranks them.
What we decided to do
No ranking system at all. There is no follower count, because we do not keep one. Posts last a day. You can see who viewed and liked your post — nobody else can. Nothing on the screen is ordered by how well it performed.
A read-only demo account, signed in for you. Live in New Orleans and Miami, and still being built.
By the numbers
Measured from the codebase
- Built with
- React 19, Vite, TypeScript
- Runs on
- Cloudflare Workers
- Database
- Supabase Postgres
+ PostGIS - Events in the catalogue
- About 37,000 ·
12,000+ upcoming - Where they come from
- 8 sources, deduped
as you read - Places
- 5.2 million, read from
raw files inside a Worker - Maps
- Apple MapKit, tokens
minted per request - Map stills
- Apple snapshots,
signed per card - Weather
- Per event, at its own
time and place - Feed, first paint
- About a quarter
of a second - Lines of code
- about 361,000
Counted in September 2026. In New Orleans that is about 750 upcoming events across 94 venues, every night for the next month.
- 8event sources, one feed
- 5.2Mplaces, loaded ourselves
- 0follower counts
What's inside
Six pieces. Three are working and in the demo. Three are real in the product and still being built, and the demo shows little or none of them — the pill on each one says which.
01
The feed
Working · in the demo
Every event in the city, pulled from eight sources and de-duplicated as you read, one card each — with a signed Apple Maps still of the venue and the weather for that hour on every card.
02
The map
Working · in the demo
Every event on Apple Maps, as a pin with the venue's name on it and a count of who is going.
03
Tonight
Working · in the demo
The city's events by day, in time order — morning, afternoon, night, late night — with the same map still and weather on each.
04
The day is the plan
Working · partly shown
Say you're Going to an event, or add your own, and it lands on your day, in time order and in your calendar.
05
Posts and friends
Working · partly shown
Short posts, photos and videos for your friends that vanish after 24 hours — no follower count, and only you see who liked them.
06
Bars and clubs
Working · partly shown
A second map mode showing every bar and club in the city as its own kind of pin, built on 5.2 million places from Foursquare's open dataset.
What to look for
Scroll the feed and watch: the text lands first, then the maps and the weather a beat later. That is one request answering in two waves.
Then switch the city to Miami and watch the whole thing change.
It is a read-only account, so nothing you tap will save.
A read-only demo account, signed in for you. Live in New Orleans and Miami, and still being built.
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