Somewhere you'd save
Step one
Save what you already love
Want, been, or loved — one word per place, plus a line about why if you feel like it. That's your diary, and it's private until you say otherwise.
Vancouver first · Toronto and Ottawa next
Keep the cafés, walks, bookshops and bars that turned out to be yours. Find the next one through people whose saves actually overlap with yours — not through a five-star average of strangers.
No app to install yet. This page is the whole thing for now — the list opens with the Vancouver cohort.
"Quiet enough to read in, warm enough to stay past closing."
An imagined entry — the diary opens with the cohort.
Vancouver, Thursday
first cohort forming
From your circle
"Best hour of my week is the stretch past the marina."
"Second-hand poetry section is unreasonably good."
Taste matched
wine bar
Cloudy Bottle
Fraserhood
Four people whose saves overlap with yours loved this.
Words you follow
Eleven places today, and then it stops. Come back tomorrow.
wine bar
Cloudy Bottle
Fraserhood
Mo saved this Tuesday. Two other people whose saves overlap with yours have been in the last month.
Why you're seeing this
Similar to your Commercial Drive evenings and three of your weeknight saves.
Right now
Quiet — a handful of people are here.
From the guest book
Priya
Went alone with a book on a Wednesday. Nobody rushed me.
Daniel
Ask for the corner table by the window.
Everyone and every place in this preview is fictional — it shows how a morning is meant to feel. The app opens first in Vancouver.
The third place problem
Cafés, bars, libraries, barber shops — the "third places" that sit between home and work. Across nearly every category they've closed in numbers since 2019, and the loss lands hardest on the people with the fewest other ways to meet each other.
Meanwhile people in their twenties report loneliness at close to twice the rate of people over sixty-five. The ones that are still open are worth knowing about, and worth going to.
Sources: CU Boulder Institute of Behavioral Science, 2025 · Newport Healthcare
Three things, and the third one is the point.
Step one
Want, been, or loved — one word per place, plus a line about why if you feel like it. That's your diary, and it's private until you say otherwise.
Step two
Friendship is mutual and unscored. No followers, no counts, nobody to perform for. Their saves show up in your feed as sentences, not as content.
Step three
A short, finite feed each morning. Every card tells you in a sentence why it's there. The more you keep, the sharper it gets.
A 4.3 average tells you a place is inoffensive to five hundred strangers. It doesn't tell you whether you'd want to be there on a Tuesday.
Reasons, not rankings
Every recommendation arrives with a human sentence: who saved it, or what it shares with the places you've kept. There is no score, no match percentage, nothing to optimise.
A feed that ends
A handful of places a day, refreshed each morning. Pull down and it tells you to come back tomorrow. Sessions are meant to be short and then over.
Private until you decide
Your lists start private. You open each one to friends, or to everyone, one at a time, from the list itself — not from a settings page four screens deep.
A record worth keeping
Even with nobody added, the diary is the reason to open it. A year in, it's a map of how you spent your time and which corners of the city became yours.
A note from us
We built this because we moved cities and lost the habit of going out.
Not for lack of options. For lack of a reason to pick one. The good places were never the top result, and the friends who would have known were three group chats deep.
So Stumble is small on purpose. It keeps what you loved, it tells you plainly why it's suggesting something, and then it gets out of the way so you can go. If it works, you use it for four minutes and spend the evening somewhere real.
We're starting with a small cohort in Vancouver, then Toronto and Ottawa. If that's you, come in early — the first hundred saves shape what everyone else sees.
No. The diary works on its own — saving what you loved is the point, and the feed is seeded by people whose saves overlap with yours from day one. Friends make it better; they aren't the entry fee. There's no invite wall and no prompt to spam your contacts.
The places you keep and the words you follow, compared against other people's. You'll see it as a short bar and a word — low, medium, high — never a percentage, and never shown to the person you're being compared with.
Your loved, want and been lists each start private. You open one to friends or to everyone from the list itself, whenever you want, and you can close it again. Notes you write on a place carry their own visibility, chosen when you post.
Because a feed that never ends is designed to keep you on your phone, and Stumble is designed to get you off it. You get a handful of places each morning; when they're done, it says come back tomorrow.
None yet. Vancouver goes first, with a small invited cohort, once the app has something worth opening. Toronto and Ottawa come after the Vancouver group tells us it's working.
Nothing during the partner launch. We'd rather find out whether it changes how you spend a Thursday than charge you to find out.
Vancouver opens first, to a small invited cohort. Toronto and Ottawa follow. Leave an email if you'd like a note when the doors open.
Nothing is collected yet — the list opens with the Vancouver cohort, and this line will say so when it does.