Robert Langan
Projects  ·  whatwherewhen.ai

WhatWhereWhen

Your subscription gets you listed. Your location gets you found.

How it started

I wanted to find real things to do with my daughter.

Not theme parks a hundred miles away. Not sponsored listings. Just the dog parks, the kids’ fun spots, the festivals coming to town, the hidden gems that make a place worth living in.

I could not find that anywhere. Every search I tried was selling me something, and the results that came first were the ones that had paid to be first. So I built it.

What it is

A geographic question engine.

People ask for three kinds of things. They look like different questions. They are not.

Places

  • Pizza shops
  • Barber shops
  • Auto-parts stores
  • Dog parks
  • Museums

Events

  • Garage sales
  • Estate sales
  • Carnivals
  • Concerts
  • Farmers markets

Items & services

  • Alternator
  • Haircut
  • Pepperoni pizza
  • 1967 Mustang parts
  • Used lawnmower
WHAT  +  WHERE  +  WHEN

All three resolve into the same question: what you want, where you are, and when you can get there. WhatWhereWhen answers that one question, and only that one.

For the business down the street

Get found because you’re nearby, not because you outspent the business down the street.

When someone is close by, results sort by distance: nearest first, every tier equal. A listing that costs a few dollars stands next to one that costs more, and the person searching decides which one to walk into.

See it in 30 seconds

Garage sales and food trucks.

30-second explainer  ·  More explainers coming.
Coming next

“Let me know when WHAT appears near WHERE.”

A search answers the question you have right now. The next step is answering the one you will still have next month: tell me whenever 1965–1970 Mustang parts show up within 50 miles of Skaneateles.

That turns a directory into something you keep: a standing question about the place you live, answered the moment the answer exists. This is not live yet. It is the direction the work is heading.