Two websites about the same simple thing: the people who love you would like to know where you are. One tells the story of a single trip while it’s happening. The other keeps a rough map of everyone you know — the city, never the address.
Your trip as one live, hand-drawn map that family and friends can follow from home. You log stops as you go; the page draws the route, knows where you are right now, and counts down to what’s next.
$25 per trip · paid once · no subscription
A globe you can spin, with your friends’ faces on it, each at the city they’re roughly in. No GPS, no addresses, no feed — just a quiet answer to “where are you these days?”
Free · in alpha · optional $7 avatar pack
Same family, different jobs. Here they are side by side.
You’re going somewhere, and someone at home texts “where are you now?” twice a day.
The Places You Will Go. Send one link before you leave. Every stop you log answers the question before anyone has to ask it.
Your friends are spread across three continents and you can never remember who lives where.
The People You Know. Everyone plants a rough pin once. Next time you’re headed to Lisbon, you’ll see who’s near Lisbon.
Both of those sound like you.
Link them. Every trip you write on The Places You Will Go draws itself onto your globe on The People You Know, and your pin moves with you. How that works ↓
A travelogue for one journey · issued to bearer
You’re going somewhere. The people who love you would like to know where you are. This turns that into one web page, at one address, that fills itself in as you go.
Flights arc like flights. Drives and trains stay close to the ground. Walks are a dotted trail. You can invent your own — a cable car, a dogsled, a hot-air balloon.
“Currently at Bangkok · next leg Chiang Mai.” You never set it. The page reads your dates and works out what’s past, where you are, and what’s still to come.
Each moment is a card: a photo, a few words, and how you got there. A week in one city gets its own close-up map, so seven stops don’t pile up on one pin.
Log stops before they happen and they show as dashed cards stamped PROVISIONAL, with a live countdown to the next one. Add the photo when you get there.
A row of small clocks — where you are, where you’re headed, where the reader is — answers the real question: is it a reasonable hour to call?
Month grids with tiny polaroids stuck on every day something happened — the whole trip at a glance.
Buy one for yourself, or as a present. Tickets are printable and “issued to bearer”: whoever holds the code can start the journey. Nothing starts ticking until your first stop, so you can buy in March for a trip in October.
The name becomes the address — /sites/marias-big-year — and that’s the link you send. Choose carefully; it can’t be changed later.
A place, a date and time, a photo, a few words, how you got there. Only the place is required. Pick a photo and it can fill in the pin and the date for you. Once a day is plenty; three times a week is fine.
Send the address. When you’re home, download the keepsake: one zip with every original photo and a page that opens with no internet, no account and no map service. It’s yours forever, even if the site isn’t.
Where’s Sean? The long way round, then the desert. The author’s own 2026: Doha, Bangkok and Tokyo, three weeks in New York, home for a breath, then five weeks in the Nevada desert at Black Rock City. 34 stops, 25,512 miles, 108 days.
a globe of rough whereabouts
The places were great. But it was always about the people. This is a globe of your friends — the city, the zone, the general vicinity. Never the address. Not even the street. Just close enough to say “oh hey, you’re near Tokyo now?”
An email, a password, a handle. You start with one friend already — Sean, MySpace-Tom style — who can be removed like anyone else.
Pick your city from a list of 34,000 world cities. Somewhere that isn’t a city — a campsite, a stretch of desert — is snapped to a coarse grid, about 25 km apart, before it’s saved. Add a short note if you like: “until the 14th.”
Send friend requests. Apart from that first one, nobody sees anybody until both sides say yes. Blocking is total: block someone and you vanish from each other everywhere, at once.
A pin stays bright for a week, then slowly fades, and looks washed out by about seven weeks. One tap — still here — brings yours back. No tracking needed; the map just tells the truth about how old it is.
Upload a photo of yourself and an artist draws you — in one of seven styles (Doodle, Neon, Deco, Blueprint, Paper, Terminal, Aqua) or one you describe in your own words. That drawn face is what sits on your friends’ globes.
The photo is used for about an hour and then deleted. What’s kept is the drawing, plus a few written words about how to draw you, so every new style still looks like you.
Ten drawings a day are free. The Avatar Pack adds 50 more for $7, once.
Community globes are a standing map for a group — climbers, a camp, a volunteer crew, the family. A keeper approves who joins, and each member chooses how roughly that globe sees them: their city, just their region, or just their country.
Event globes are for one big convergence — a wedding, a reunion, a festival camp. Everyone pins where they’re coming from, then taps “I’m here!” when they arrive.
Both are free while the site is in alpha.
The places are the story. The people are the reason.
Stops, photos, notes and times. All of it stays on the travel site, shown to whoever has your link.
The trip shows on your globe as a line: solid where you’ve been, dashed with an arrow where you’re going. Your pin moves with you, city-grade.
Each site works fine on its own. Together, the trip you’re writing up for your family quietly tells your friends you’ll be roughly in Lisbon until the 14th — which is exactly how you end up having dinner with someone you haven’t seen in six years.
On The People You Know, no — there is nowhere to type one, the pin is a city or a point blurred to a ~25 km grid, and the blur is baked into what’s saved. On The Places You Will Go, a stop is as exact as you make it; the guide recommends pinning the city while you’re there, adding a passcode if you’re traveling alone, and sharpening pins after you get home if you want to.
No. Both are websites. They work in any browser, on a phone or a computer, and the globe spins and pinches on an iPhone.
The Places You Will Go is $25 per trip, paid once, by card through Stripe. Nothing recurs, and an unused ticket doesn’t expire. The People You Know is free; the only thing for sale is the optional $7 Avatar Pack of 50 extra drawings, which never expire either.
A travelogue closes itself after 90 quiet days. Nothing is deleted — the page stays exactly where it is, everyone keeps their link, it just stops taking edits, and you can reopen it any time. On The People You Know, a stale pin simply fades until you tap “still here.”
Trip photos live with your travelogue, with hidden location data stripped on upload, and the keepsake download hands every original back to you. The face photo you give The People You Know is used for about an hour to draw you, then deleted; only the drawing stays, unless you choose to use the photo as-is.
Yes — a trip is the classic one. Choose “as a gift” at checkout, then either email the ticket or print it, fold it into a card and hand it over. Whoever holds the code starts the journey.
Sean — one person, the same one behind everything else on Sean Makes Stuff. Trips: seansp@saasaas.llc. The globe: hello@the-people-you-know.com.