social discovery app · co-founded

NearBlend

Find people, activities and places near you, and meet people who share your interests.

Role
Co-Founder & CEO
Timeline
May 2026 – present
Platforms
Web (PWA) · iOS · Android, in India and other countries
Built with
Flutter · Supabase · Mapbox
NearBlend Discover screen on iPhone, light mode
A Top 5 of nearby places being ranked, dark mode
Explore screen in dark mode
Discover screen in dark mode
The top five cafés nearby, addresses hidden

overview

People, places and plans around you.

NearBlend is a social app for discovering people, places and plans nearby, with a live map, discovery and chat.

I co-founded it and took it from the first commit to the App Store, Google Play and the web, and ran both store releases end to end.

  1. Live on Google Play (Sept 2026), the App Store (Oct 2026) and the web as a PWA, built with Flutter, Supabase and Mapbox.
  2. Realtime chat and group chats, push notifications on iOS, Android and the web, and a Discover ranking by Bayesian-adjusted rating, distance and reviews.
  3. Privacy and safety by design: Ghost Mode, no background location tracking, data stored in India, family-safe content and under-18s hidden by default.

how it works

Post a plan. Meet in real life.

Plans stay live for a few hours inside your radius, and each one gets its own group chat.

01

Post a plan

A plan is live for a few hours, inside your radius.

Posting a plan on Android

02

One chat

A group chat for everyone who joined the plan.

The chats list on Android

03

Discover

People and places nearby, ranked by rating, distance and reviews.

Discover on iPhone

04

Top 5

The best places near you, ranked.

A Top 5 being ranked

ios

Light and dark, on every screen.

Discover, dark mode
Explore before anyone has posted
The top five cafés nearby

Discover in dark mode, Explore before anyone has posted, and the top five cafés nearby (addresses hidden).

web app

And in the browser, as a PWA.

The same Flutter app runs in the browser at web.nearblend.com.

Explore on the web
Signing in on the web

store listings

The store listings.

Listing images for the App Store and Google Play, made to match the app.

App Store: post a plan
App Store: post a plan
App Store: one chat for everyone
App Store: one chat for everyone
App Store: the top 5 places
App Store: the top 5 places
App Store: where to actually go
App Store: where to actually go
Google Play: post a plan
Google Play: post a plan
Google Play: one chat
Google Play: one chat
Google Play: discover
Google Play: discover