Tribumap came out of my own frustration as a parent. Finding places that actually work with a child (changing table, high chair, play area) was either guesswork or locked inside a single-city app that stopped being useful the moment I crossed a border. The information existed, but it was sparse, scattered or hyper-local. Nothing worked everywhere.

I built it end to end on my own: user research, product definition, UX and interface design, development, and deployment on iOS and Android.

The defining problem was the cold start. A community map is worthless on day one if it's empty, but waiting for parents to fill it means nobody stays long enough to fill it. My answer was to prepopulate cities from Google Maps so the map is immediately useful anywhere, then let parents verify, enrich and correct it by adding spots, tagging amenities and reviewing in their own language.

That created the hardest design call. Should we show places with likely kid-friendly potential when we have no proof? In smaller cities, staying silent means showing almost nothing. I chose to display them, since something beats nothing for a parent standing on a street, but made the trust level explicit in the interface: suggested places carry a visually distinct pin from those verified by parents. The map stays useful without claiming a confidence it hasn't earned.

Tribumap is live in Paris, Amsterdam, London and most major European cities, with hundreds of places registered. Light social features, such as shareable favourites and seeing where friends have been, turn individual lookups into something parents build together.