Hive Mobile

Finding the best your neighborhood has to offer usually means wading through a sea of paid placements and purchased reviews. The platforms designed to help you discover your city have been quietly working against you by harvesting your data, selling it to the highest bidder, and serving you results based on who paid the most instead of what's actually worth your time.

No longer. Like you, we’re sick of the ads and harvested personal data. We’re returning search results to what it always should have been. No selling your identity to fund someone else's business model. We’re getting back to real local results. Because every data point in our platform is based on real merchants and consumers, our platform is 100% free of fake accounts, bots, influencers, and scam posts.

Privacy by Design

Hive Mobile is a privacy-first, ad-free discovery platform for local residents that’s built to help you explore your neighborhood and the shops and service providers that have come to define your community. 

Because we don’t rely on selling ads or keeping you distracted, we never need to use your information to manipulate or alter your experience in any way.

Authentic Results

Our platform uses natural language query and learns about your preferences and tastes across hundreds of different factors that are invisible to traditional keyword-based search. Results are personally curated for you and adapt to the circumstances and situations behind every search.

Every search result is driven by real economic activity. Real transactions, from real people, at real local businesses. We’re proud to say that on our platform, you don’t have to worry about bots or fake reviews.

Positive Impact

Hive is committed to reinvesting in the community, so you can be sure that the support you show for your favorite local businesses translates into real support for the owners and workers that make those businesses work.

We believe that by creating a more circular economic model, local communities become stronger and more resilient, and are more able to resist negative forces like predatory gentrification and in-affordability

The data belongs to the people, we’re just giving it back.

Every tech platform is built on the same deal: they monitor your every move, sell your data to anyone willing to pay, and make support almost impossible to get. In exchange, you get a worse experience every year as the ad inventory grows and your feed gets more crowded by irrelevant and unhelpful results.

With Hive Mobile, your data belongs to you and always will. Our data ingestion process decouples your personally identifiable information the moment it enters our system, ensuring your identity is never exposed, never shared, and never sold. The only place your data gets reconnected to you is on your own device.

We have made it a point to never sell user data to brokers or third parties. Because we don't run ads or allow businesses to pay for better placement, you can be sure that the results you see are specifically designed for you, and only you.

In the AI economy, the data that big tech companies harvest every day is the new means of production. We’re here to help make sure the people who power our economy can use that data to make their communities and their lives better and richer, rather than exclusively for the benefit of absentee shareholders or unsustainable growth.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Hive Mobile is completely free for local community members to use. We want to help residents find reliable businesses and make supporting the local economy easier.

  • Every result on Hive Mobile is ranked based on real data and your established preferences. Merchants cannot purchase better visibility on the platform.

  • No. Your personally identifiable information is decoupled from your activity at the point it enters our system. The only place your data gets reconnected to your identity is on your own device. We don't sell to brokers; we don't run ads, and we never will.

  • Because we have no incentive to sell ads, we have no need to manipulate your search results or harvest your data.

    Also, every data point in our system reflects a real transaction. There are no such things as fake reviews, purchased likes, automated bots, or paid influencers on Hive.

  • To start, we are focusing on food & hospitality and service providers & residential contractors.

    As we grow and expand, we plan to support many other types of businesses.

    Hive can also answer questions about the area in a more general way, such as things to do, places to visit, how crowded a place probably is , and much more.