Naybar

Overview

Naybar is a location-based social network and news feed built on geographic proximity. Posts, conversations, businesses, and people surface based on the radius you set around yourself, not based on a global feed or a friend graph. If something is happening where you are right now, Naybar shows it. If it is happening outside your radius, it does not.

Want to follow a place you are not at? Drop a pin anywhere on the map and Naybar's feed switches to that location.

What it is

Naybar was built for South Africa's urban and informal economy first, where the most relevant information is almost always local: who is selling what, what is happening on the street, who needs help, what events are nearby. The platform extends naturally to any community anywhere.

It is a progressive web app. It works in a browser and installs to the home screen. There is no external social graph to import and no tracking pixel to load. Naybar does not exist to harvest attention for advertisers.

What it does

• Drop posts share content tied to a specific spot. Carry posts follow you as you move.
• Geonotes leave private or public notes pinned to coordinates that other people discover when they walk into range.
• Local chat groups everyone within the same radius into a single conversation.
• Private messages, voice notes and calls work as expected.
• Saved locations let you bookmark places that matter to you.
• Promotion lets a business or an individual boost a post to a broader radius for a fee proportional to the area they want to cover.

How it works

Naybar runs on a geospatial database with proximity calculations performed at the database layer. Location is detected via the browser's geolocation API and refined when needed via reverse geocoding.

Real-time features like local chat and calls run on a signalling server with WebRTC for media. The feed is a query against a radius, not a ranking against a global corpus, which is why a corner shop two blocks away can outrank a stranger on another continent — the stranger is not in the radius.

OcaltQL's map verbs — geocoding, routing, distance, geofences — are the same spatial layer other products use. A logistics script and a Naybar post are different products on related geography.

Getting started

1. Open naybar.com in a browser. Allow location, or drop a pin if you would rather pick.
2. Set a radius you actually live in. A neighbourhood is a radius. A city is usually too wide to be useful on day one.
3. Read the feed. Post something tied to a spot. Save a location.
4. Install to the home screen when you want it next to the other apps, not inside a tab.
5. Businesses: compose a post, then promote it to the radius you are willing to pay for.

Promotion

Promotion is not a global auction for attention. You pay for area. A wider radius costs more, because it interrupts more people who did not ask for a global feed. The result is a marketplace that scales with intent rather than with who has the largest media budget.

Organic posts still win inside a small radius. Promotion is how a shop two suburbs over reaches people who would not otherwise walk in.

Who it is for

Anyone who wants to know what is actually happening near them. Small business owners, vendors, organisers, neighbours, and people who have given up on platforms that show them content from strangers across the world while ignoring the corner shop two blocks away.

Privacy and location

The product needs a location to be a location product. You can drop a pin instead of sharing live GPS. Saved locations are yours. Geonotes can be private. There is no imported friend graph to leak, and no third-party pixel on the page.

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FAQ

Does Naybar work outside South Africa?

Yes. It was built there first. A radius is a radius. Communities anywhere can use it; density is what makes a local feed feel alive.

Is it on the app stores?

It is a PWA. Install it from the browser to the home screen. That is the supported client.