Most of life still happens locally.
I'm Leo, and I live in Vaughan. A few months ago I tried to find what was actually happening near me this weekend, and I couldn't.
Eventbrite showed me four things in Liberty Village. The library calendar was a PDF. My favourite bakery's events were buried six posts deep on Instagram. The small theatre down the street had a Facebook page nobody updates. There was no single place to just see what was on.
So much of what we actually do still happens within a few kilometres of our home. The weekend deals, the new café down the street, the free workshop at the library, the comedy show at the bar, the festival in the park. The stuff that makes a neighbourhood feel like a neighbourhood. But somehow, the internet pushes us away from it. We scroll national feeds, see the same global brands, and totally miss what's happening right outside our front door.
So I built one place that pulls it all together. Happs already aggregates 12,000+ real events from 240+ venues across the GTA, from museum lates to trivia nights to grand openings, refreshed every day. You open the app and your neighbourhood is already there. No empty feed. No "coming soon."
And for the small bakery, the family pizzeria, the indie barber, the local fitness studio, who today pay hundreds a month for Yelp ads or get drowned by chains on Google, happs is a fair shot to reach the neighbours who already live next door to them. Make local feel local again.
Vaughan is the home base. The GTA is the proving ground. If we can make it work here, we can bring it everywhere.