spoty
The social network of places

Discover what your place has to say.

An immersive 3D map full of real places – filled by people on location and by an AI that researches history and culture from more than ten sources.

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The 'Owners & History' card for a Salzburg townhouse: Chunrad Taufkinds from 1424, then Sebastian and Andrä Althamer, Karl Schattenfroh and Anton Daghofer, followed by the start of the timeline with the building of the arcaded courtyard.
The spoty map over Salzburg: several vehicles shown as line numbers in their official line colours, spread across the Salzach, the Mirabell gardens and the old town.
The Spot Meet room at Monkeys, a bar, as the guided tour demonstrates it: Marlene and Anon-4 listed as here now, and below them two messages – one person has just walked in, the other offers the spare seat at their table. The tour's own caption bar and skip button are left in frame.
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What is spoty

A map where places speak

spoty is a social network built around places, not profiles. Every Spoty belongs to a real point on the map – a birthplace, a café, a stadium – and carries that place's own timeline: posts, photos and history from exactly there. You move through a full-screen 3D map down to street level and follow the places you care about. Open a place for the first time, and an AI researches it right then – the result stays in place for whoever comes next.

Explore

A map of all of Austria down to street level, trains and buses moving live, and every town telling you its own story the first time you open it.

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The map zoomed out to level 7, reaching from the edge of Vorarlberg across to the Vienna basin: blue cluster markers over the country, each carrying the number of municipalities grouped beneath it; Arnoldstein sits unclustered at the southern border, under its own pin and label.

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One map for all of Austria

A 3D map you can pull out from street level to the whole of Austria: all 2,092 municipalities, 253,114 places to discover.

Salzburg Cathedral in the map's tilted 3D view: the west facade with its three portals, a clock tower either side and the dome behind, Domplatz in front.

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Landmarks you recognise from the side

Tilt the map: Salzburg Cathedral stands there with its portals, towers and dome – the same silhouette you'd pick it out by on Domplatz.

The spoty map over Salzburg: several vehicles shown as line numbers in their official line colours, spread across the Salzach, the Mirabell gardens and the old town.

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Trains and buses, live on the map

ÖBB trains, trams, buses and trolleybuses move live on the map – in seven cities, even in their real line colours.

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Every town tells its own story

Open a town for the first time, and spoty researches it for you: an image, population figures and a short history.

Everywhere

The whole country, not just one city

Every dot on this map is its own Spoty with its own story – whether it's the busiest square in an old town or the smallest village in a valley.

253,114 places across 2,092 municipalities

Follow

New posts reach your feed in real time, with no reload – and play, whether from a single place or your whole feed, as a full-screen slideshow.

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Your feed, in real time

New posts from the places you follow reach you in real time – over an open connection, with no reload.

A place's post shown full-screen as part of its slideshow – the progress bar marks its position among the other posts.

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Posts play as a slideshow

A place's posts play out as a full-screen slideshow – and your whole feed can play the same way.

Contribute

A post only goes live once a GPS trail confirms you're really there, and that same presence lets you check in and, where a place has a chat, join it – with a full account, you can also set up a Spoty of your own on the map, free.

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The guided tour's radius step at the Platzl: a circle around an assumed position, the Spotys inside it lit up and those outside dimmed, with the tour's own explanation above.

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Only people who are there can post

A GPS trail has to confirm you're actually within that place's radius before spoty lets a post go live – which is exactly what keeps content real and spam not worth attempting.

The Spot Meet room at Monkeys, a bar, as the guided tour demonstrates it: Marlene and Anon-4 listed as here now, and below them two messages – one person has just walked in, the other offers the spare seat at their table. The tour's own caption bar and skip button are left in frame.

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Check in and join the conversation

At cafés, bars, museums and anywhere else people gather, a check-in unlocks that place's own chat – open to whoever else is there with you right now.

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Your own Spoty, free

Set up one Spoty of your own, free, with a full account – not a starting allowance, just yours.

Welcome to spoty

Nothing to install – spoty runs straight in your browser, with the option to add it as an app when you want to. Sign in with Apple or an email address for an account, or stay fully anonymous, in any of eight languages.

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