Map lists
Restaurants, cafes, parks, and shops saved for someday.
Private beta mobile app for saved places
You already found the places. Kanoo helps you go.
Kanoo is a private-beta mobile app for turning saved restaurants, cafes, parks, local events, date ideas, and short-trip stops into real outings you can actually follow.
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Working MVP in private beta. Public beta target: early 2027.
Why Kanoo
You save places everywhere. Choosing what to do is still work.
Saves, screenshots, links, and recommendations pile up across apps. When the weekend, date, hangout, or solo day arrives, the decision tax comes back.
Saved posts
Places you liked once and meant to revisit.
Group chats
Links from friends that never become an outing.
Screenshots
A camera roll full of ideas with no next step.
Notes
Random place names without distance, hours, or context.
Memory
Good ideas that disappear when the weekend arrives.
Saved everywhereOutings start from scratchGroup debateWeekends slip by
What Kanoo solves
Less decision tax between saving a place and actually going.About Kanoo
Kanoo is a consumer mobile app for turning saved places into real outings.
Kanoo is built for people who save restaurants, cafes, shops, parks, hidden gems, date ideas, weekend stops, and short-trip ideas across maps, social apps, screenshots, notes, and group chats but still struggle to decide what to do.
Business description
One flow from saved place to outing.
Kanoo gives saved place ideas a practical next step: organize them around the moment, compare what fits, and leave with an outing people can actually use.
Problem and audience
The problem is not a lack of discovery.
People already find more places than they can act on. Kanoo reduces the decision tax between saving a place and actually going, especially for weekends, dates, hangouts, solo days, food crawls, city days, and short trips.
Industry context
Local discovery and social planning.
Kanoo is a consumer mobile product for encouraging local business discovery, event discovery, and social planning around real outings. It helps people turn saved restaurants, cafes, shops, parks, events, and short-trip ideas into plans while complementing navigation tools rather than replacing them.
Product
Discover. Yours. Place Playlist. Glance. Go.
The working MVP is being built for iOS and Android around a practical loop: discover or import real places, keep them in Yours, build a lightweight playlist of places, glance at the map, share the idea, and open Maps when it is time to go.
Discover
Discover places worth saving.
Browse real restaurants, cafes, shops, parks, and hidden gems in a visual feed built for quick decisions.
Yours
Keep your places together.
Save the restaurants, cafes, shops, parks, and hidden gems that fit tonight, this weekend, a date, or a short trip.
Playlist
Build a playlist of places.
Pick a few saved places for your Saturday, date, hangout, solo day, or short trip.
Glance
Glance at the places on the map.
See what is nearby, what is open, and what fits together before you hand off to Maps.
Go
Open in Maps when you are ready to go.
Use Kanoo to decide where to go, then open Maps when it is time to move.
Memory
Remember where you went.
Turn the places you actually visited into a simple memory, then reuse or share the idea later.
See Kanoo in action
A playlist of places that looks useful, not just saved.
Kanoo focuses on the moment saved ideas become a day someone can follow: a few real places, light edits, map context, and a clear handoff to Maps.
Completed weekend playlist
Rainy Vancouver Saturday
4 stops completed 2 edits before leaving Maps ready to open
- Cafe saved for later
- Bookstore added nearby
- Park walk kept flexible
- Dinner handoff opened in Maps
Saved places Weekend playlist Went
Context over categories
Plan around the moment, not just a category.
Kanoo is designed to curate places around context and vibe rather than forcing every idea into rigid business categories. Start with the kind of outing you want, then shape the places around that moment.
Date nightRemote workRainy SaturdayCoffee crawlSolo afternoonFriends visiting
Weekend A Saturday playlist you can actually follow.
Coffee, a browse-worthy stop, a walk, and dinner in an order that feels doable.
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Tonight Pick 3 saved places. Make tonight's playlist.
Start from places you already liked and shape a quick lineup for tonight.
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Friends Skip the group chat debate.
Use a ready-made outing, make two edits, and give people something they can say yes to.
Request private beta accessBring in saved ideas
Already saved places elsewhere? Bring them into Yours.
Search and import paths help pull existing place ideas into Kanoo so they can be saved, compared, and added to the right playlist of places.
Stage & roadmap
Kanoo is a working MVP in private beta.
The private beta is testing the saved-place-to-outing loop: discover or import real places, save them, build a place playlist, glance at map context, share the idea, and open Maps to go.
Current stage
Working MVP in private beta
The private beta is testing whether saved places can become useful place playlists with map context, sharing, and Maps handoff.Next milestone
Shared playlists and outing coordination
The next development phase expands shared playlists plus lightweight in-app messaging and coordination around an outing.Public beta target
early 2027
This is a target, not a launch guarantee. The timing depends on private-beta learning and app quality.Current beta focus
What users can expect in the private beta.
- Visual place discovery shaped by interests, context, and vibe.
- Yours, a home for saved, liked, and revisitable places.
- Place playlists for dates, weekends, hangouts, solo days, food crawls, city days, and short trips.
- Glance map context and Maps handoff.
- Search and import paths for places saved elsewhere.
- Early public/private sharing and playlist-link foundations.
- Profile surfaces for posted, followed, liked, and saved place activity.
Screens shown are beta product previews. Features and flows may change as Kanoo improves the private beta.
Business model
Core consumer planning stays free while Kanoo learns.
Kanoo plans to keep the core consumer experience free, with optional premium planning tools and carefully labelled local partnerships over time.Choose a platform and the private beta form below will stay in sync.
Private beta access
Join the private beta waitlist.
Choose iOS or Android and leave your email. We will contact you as beta invitations become available.
Kanoo is currently in beta. Some features may change as we improve the experience.
FAQ
Common questions.
What is Kanoo?
Kanoo is a consumer mobile app for turning saved places into real outings for weekends, dates, hangouts, solo days, and short trips.
Is Kanoo replacing Google Maps?
No. Google Maps is great for navigation. Kanoo helps with the step before that: deciding which saved places fit together, glancing at them on the map, and opening Maps when you are ready to go.
What stage is Kanoo in?
Kanoo is a working MVP in private beta. Public beta is a future target, currently planned for early 2027.
How do I get access?
Use the private beta waitlist form to request access. Invitations go out as beta capacity becomes available.
Can I bring in places I already saved?
Yes. Kanoo is building search and import paths for places users already saved elsewhere, including Google Maps public-list import for email-backed users and screenshot/shared-text capture paths where supported.
What can I use Kanoo for first?
The beta is best for weekends, dates, friend hangouts, solo days, food crawls, city days, and short trips built from places you already find interesting.
How will Kanoo make money?
Kanoo plans to keep the core consumer experience free, with optional premium planning tools and carefully labelled local partnerships over time.
Are these screens final?
No. Screens shown are beta product previews. Features and flows may change as Kanoo improves the private beta.
Team
Founder
Stephen Nugroho
Kanoo is founder-led in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada by Stephen Nugroho, Founder.
Stephen Nugroho is a Senior Pipeline TD at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) with 10+ years building production software and artist workflows across animation and VFX studios including ILM, Weta FX, and studios in Japan and Indonesia.
His experience includes designing and delivering large-scale production systems spanning backend services, pipeline tooling, workflow automation, and cross-team technical infrastructure for internationally distributed productions.
As Kanoo's solo founder, Stephen is responsible for product strategy, UX, Flutter mobile development, backend architecture, cloud infrastructure, deployment, analytics, and product validation.
Having lived and worked across Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, and Canada, he created Kanoo from a personal need to make discovering, saving, and actually visiting interesting places easier while exploring new cities.