Syla Social
Coming soon

Trips that keep working when the signal doesn't.

Real itineraries from people who actually went. Downloaded to your pocket, walkable with no bars, honest about what's really there.

Legacy social uses travel as a backdrop. We use the backdrop to get you there.
Syla's red panda guide with binoculars
“Real spots, not AI guesses.”
✈︎ Airplane mode: still works
Feeds that endMaps in your pocketPublish after you leaveSeven guides, not seven hundredCreators get paid on the coordinate
Feeds that endMaps in your pocketPublish after you leaveSeven guides, not seven hundredCreators get paid on the coordinate
The gap we're building in
$115B
of travel demand inspired on social
$7B
actually booked through it
Everyone is inspired. Almost nobody goes. That's not an attention problem — it's what happens when inspiration can't survive contact with the destination.
Four house rules

Promises a generalist app can't make.

Not features. Architecture. Each one closes a door we've deliberately bricked up.

01 · OFFLINE

Download the whole trip

Guides, maps and written routes, bundled before you fly. No screen in this app is allowed to be a network error.

02 · DECISION DETOX

Seven guides. Then stop.

Five stops per day-card. No infinite scroll anywhere. You'll reach the bottom, decide, and put the phone away.

03 · SAFETY

Post it after you've gone

Six-hour delay by default, coordinates fuzzed, no live location endpoint to leak. Safe is the default, not a setting.

04 · MONEY

Paid on the coordinate

Booking links live on the stop, not in a bio. A guide keeps earning long after the post would have scrolled away.

The thing you actually get

Not a post.
A plan you can walk.

Every guide is a structured document — days, stops, coordinates, real costs, honest notes. Because it's structured, you can download it, fork it to your own dates, and get told when something changes.

🍴
Fork it
Make it yours in one tap. The original creator stays credited forever.
🔁
It gets corrected
A place closes, a price moves — you get a diff, not a dead end.
📄
It survives anything
No photos, no maps, no data: the 50KB text version is still a complete guide.
MK
Maya Kessler
Verified visit · March 2026
✓ Offline
Four slow days in the Alentejo
4 days€€ midSlow paceSolo-friendly
1
Mercado de Évora · 08:30
Go before nine or the bread is gone. €4, 40 min.
2
Cromeleque dos Almendres · flexible
Last 2km is dirt track. No signal from the turn-off — written directions cached.
Affiliate link · we earn a commission
What to actually expect
It's a field with stones and no shade. Beautiful for twenty minutes, not for two hours. Bring water.
Ghost Mode

Nobody needs to know where you are right now.

Broadcasting your position live is the mechanic that makes travel content dangerous. So we didn't build it. There is no endpoint, public or private, that returns anyone's current location.

6h+
Delayed publishing, on by default
Your post goes live after you've moved on. Zero delay is blocked outright on anything tagged as where you slept.
±250m
Fuzzed coordinates
Published stops are neighbourhood-accurate, never door-accurate. Accommodation is area-tier, always.
Home
Home-region protection
Nothing near where you live publishes without you confirming it, post by post. Your house is not advertised as empty.
3 people
Trusted contacts
A private, revocable link to your planned route — for the people who should have it, and nobody else.
For creators

Stop renting your audience.

73% of single-platform creators lost real income to last year's algorithm changes. 41% lost more than half. Here, reach isn't the product — the guide is.

Earn on the coordinate

Stays, tours and insurance attach to the stop itself, with dates and party size pre-filled at handoff. A guide keeps earning eighteen months after you post it.

Every monetised link is labelled, visibly, and can't be dismissed.

No topic-jump penalty

We rank on in-destination opens, saves and completions. Not watch time, not cadence, not consistency. Take a month off; your reach is waiting when you get back.

We will never throttle delivery to your own followers without telling you.

Leave whenever you like

Followers, itineraries and original media exported in an open format, one tap, any time. No support ticket, no thirty-day wait, no buried GDPR form.

Plus offline drafting — a week in a dead zone is no longer a week of lost output.
Trust layer

Only 5% of people completely trust influencer content. We treat that as a design failure.

Every stop carries a coarse verified-visit badge — month and year, never a timestamp. Every stop invites the unflattering version of the story. Anyone who walked the route can file a dated field report, and three “no longer valid” reports flag it for everybody.

18 months
before an unchecked guide visibly decays
Ranked up
for saying what's actually there

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