Place-locked conversation
Talk to the people who are actually there, instead of guessing through stale posts and map reviews.
Rustles web presence
See the place before the feed goes stale.
Rustles is a location-bound live chat for people who need to know what is happening right now, not what ranked highest last night.
Mobile launch
Coming soon to iOS & Android
The first release is being shaped for the phone in your hand, with native distribution in the app stores people already use.
Coming soon
Rustles is building a faster way to feel the pulse of places.
Open the app and land inside the conversation nearest to you. The system ties people to the places they are physically in, then opens the chat upward through municipality, county, and country.
Useful local signal
Festivals, disruptions, road incidents, meetups, and live atmosphere can travel faster than feed ranking.
Built for visitors too
Drop into a new area, ask locals what is happening, and get context from the people living the moment.
Latest devlog
Build notes from the edge of launch.
Shaping the public surface
The first pass on Rustles web presence focuses on getting a static public surface online without introducing backend drag.
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Rustles web reads devlog and changelog entries from the future app repository at build time instead of mirroring content here.
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Shipped movement, one public step at a time.
Website publishing pipeline scaffolded
Version 0.1.0
The website now has a static Astro shell, content schemas, placeholder-fed routes, and deployment workflow scaffolding.
Read entryStatic VPS deployment path selected
Version 0.0.2
Rustles web will deploy built static files to a VPS instead of running a live Node server in production.
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