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Your friends have already been to the best places.
You just can’t search them. Beenlist makes the recommendations you actually trust — from the people you actually know — searchable for the first time.
The recommendation you want is probably one friend away.
The best travel recommendations rarely live in one obvious place. They’re passed around casually, shared in conversation, and stored in people’s heads until someone happens to ask.
Until now, finding that recommendation meant texting the group chat, searching old messages, or researching anonymous reviews and posts on the internet.
Beenlist makes your network searchable. See where your friends have been and what they actually recommend, and search the people whose taste you trust.
No anonymous reviews. No endless scrolling. Just recommendations from people you know.
Think: Bambino’s trusted-network model meets Spotify’s ability to organize, curate, and discover based on taste—but for travel.
The shift
Trust, not crowds.
Beenlist is a network where you log the places you’ve been and search across the places your friends have been — filtered by who they are (“my foodie friends,” “the family that travels constantly”) or where they went. Every result tells you exactly who recommended it and what they said.
Think Spotify playlists — but for places.
Why it gets better
The more your people use it, the more it knows.
Every place your friends add, every recommendation you save, every “ask Sarah about this” teaches Beenlist who you trust and what you love. It doesn’t get louder. It gets more yours.
We’re starting small, in Austin, on purpose.
We’re starting with one hundred founding members in Austin to seed the first circles. Anyone can join Beenlist, and each person builds a circle of people they trust. The founding group helps shape the app. If that sounds like your group, there’s room.
Founding Members · Austin 202612 of 100 founding spots claimed