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Quick facts
Product
NextStop
Tagline
When 'idk wyd' becomes a real night out.
Platforms
iPhone (iOS 17+)
Launch
Summer 2026
Pricing
Free · Pro $4.99/mo or $39.99/yr
HQ
New Brunswick, NJ · USA
Founder
Mark Kamel
Press contact
press@viberoute.app
The pitch
NextStop is the AI hangout app for groups who've already done everything in their town.
It's built around five pillars: The Pick (an AI taste model that surfaces a place worth going to right now — not Yelp's top-10 list, but the place you would pick if you knew it existed), The Rally (live group coordination with auto-detect, real-time ETAs in the Dynamic Island, and an Idea Room that turns 30 seconds of group typing into a full plan), The Moments (mid-hangout side-quest prompts in curated packs from Chill to Chaos-Lite to Birthday), The Recap (cinematic 1080p watermark-free Rally videos saved straight to camera roll), and Smarter places (premium intel on what to order, when to go, hidden gems and creator picks).
Where Yelp shows paid reviews, Snap Map shows dots, and the group chat shows 27 messages of "idk u pick," NextStop shows somewhere worth going and gets your friends there with you. The whole night becomes something keepable instead of something you forget.
All taste data, location history, and memories stay end-to-end on the user's iPhone. NextStop doesn't sell data, run an ad network, or operate a follower graph. The product is the app, not the attention farm.
What makes it different
📍
The Pick
AI taste model that surfaces a place worth going to right now. The fix for "we've done everything in our town." Hidden-gem boost on Pro.
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The Rally
Live group coordination. Auto-detect when friends are nearby. Real-time ETAs in the Dynamic Island. Drive-safe arrival pings.
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The Moments
Mid-hangout side-quest prompts. Six curated packs (Chill, Food, Chaos-Lite free; Exposed, Birthday, Scavenger Pro). Mischievous but kind.
🎬
The Recap
Save every Rally as a 1080p watermark-free video with crossfade transitions. Save to camera roll, share to Stories or iMessage.
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Smarter places
Pro place intelligence: what to order, best time to go, hidden gems, creator picks. Real-world signal, not Yelp guesses.
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Idea Room
Drop words, get a plan. AI builds a 3–4 stop night from your group's typed vibes — with a "why this won" reveal so the loudest voice doesn't decide.
Brand assets
Color palette
Founder
Mark Kamel — Founder & sole developer of NextStop.
Built NextStop because the apps he used with his own friend group all failed at the same thing: remembering where the night went. Snap Map showed dots, Find My showed pins, Life360 showed surveillance — none of them showed memory. So he wrote NextStop end-to-end: iOS app in SwiftUI, Python backend, Supabase realtime, custom AI plan generation, and the ML place-detection FSM that runs entirely on-device.
Based in New Brunswick, NJ. Available for interviews via press@viberoute.app.
Recent coverage
Coverage will appear here after launch. Working with: TechCrunch, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Hypebeast.