The loop
One good report makes everyone's night better.
Lineup is for meeting your friends and finding the party. Here's the whole thing, start to finish.
- 1
See who's out
Open the map. Warm glow means people are actually there - counted from reports by people standing inside, not a guess and not an ad. Cover at the door and tonight's specials ride along on every card.
Peek at tonight's board - 2
Round up the crew
Start a rally: pick two to five bars in order, name the night, and drop one link in the group chat. Friends tap in and everyone sees the same plan - the stops, who's in, who's already there.
- 3
Go
Head to stop one. Lineup notices you arrived and your crew sees you made it. When the room dies, anyone can call the vote to move - majority of the people who showed up says go, and everybody gets the ping.
- 4
Report the crowd - 30 seconds, anonymous
Four taps: how packed, what's the cover, how's the line, done. No typing, and no name attached - not to strangers, not to friends, not ever. Reports only count if you're actually standing there.
- 5
Everyone's night gets better
Your report warms the map for the next crew deciding where to go. They skip the dead bar; you build a streak and a reputation for calling it straight. Around it goes, every weekend.
No fake hype
The map doesn't lie.
A crowd map is only worth anything if nobody can cook it. So the rules are strict, and they apply to everybody - including the bars.
A report only counts from within 150 meters of the door, checked server-side. You can't hype a bar from your couch.
Every report is weighed by the reporter's track record. A brand-new account barely moves the needle; people who call it straight count for more.
Heat is damped. One overexcited friend can't flip a bar to Packed on their own - it takes agreement.
Bars can't report their own crowd, edit their numbers, or pay to look busier. If they think the data's wrong, they can flag it and a human looks.
Fresh beats stale. A report from 40 minutes ago barely counts, so the map shows the night as it is, not as it was.