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Spots

Scrapes TikTok review channels to help you discover and save popular places around Addis Ababa

Web app Rated 7 Oct 2026Dormant

Link
spots.buildin21.com
Built by
The Beno Logs

Bloat

138/500

Where it landed on the scale

Bloat
0
Float
300
Moat
400

Summary

Spots is a live, small web app that solves a real personal problem: finding places to go in Addis without being on TikTok. It was built in a weekend and got a few updates (PWA, near me, feedback, changelog) before posts stopped in late June. There's no pricing, no payments and no sign of how it would earn money, and the scraping idea is easy to copy.

Bloat · Not much here works or looks likely to last, yet.

Breakdown

Five measures, 100 points each. Open the receipts under any of them to see the posts and pages behind the points.

Viability

Is there a real problem, someone who would pay, and a market this builder can actually reach?

The problem of finding places to go in Addis is real and the TikTok-free angle is useful. Nothing shows a way to charge anyone, and there's no sign of paying users.

30/100

Rubric 21–40A real problem, but no plausible path to anyone paying, or a market well out of this builder's reach.

Receipts (2)

  1. States the problem (discovering places in Addis without being on TikTok) and the core features (save, lists, notes, reviews).

    “My girlfriend hated when I made her pick places to go out. And I don't really know too many places around the city (me dev. outside bad 🙂‍↔️). So I built this last weekend. Spots scrapes popular review channels on TikTok and displays the results all in one place. You can save a spot, make a list of all the places you've been to with notes and reviews, and you can see what other people have said”

    Post · @thebludragon · 20 Jun 2026 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  2. The live page shows no pricing, payments or accounts, so there's no visible path to revenue.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · spots.buildin21.com (opens in a new tab)

Moat

What stops someone copying it?

Aggregating public TikTok review channels is something another local dev could rebuild in a weekend. The scraped place data could compound if it's kept up, but nothing shows it's being kept up.

14/100

Rubric 0–20A thin wrapper or a clone that anyone here could rebuild in a weekend.

Receipts (2)

  1. The product was described as built in one weekend, which shows how cheap it is to copy.

    “My girlfriend hated when I made her pick places to go out. And I don't really know too many places around the city (me dev. outside bad 🙂‍↔️). So I built this last weekend. Spots scrapes popular review channels on TikTok and displays the results all in one place. You can save a spot, make a list of all the places you've been to with notes and reviews, and you can see what other people have said”

    Post · @thebludragon · 20 Jun 2026 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  2. Added features are generic (PWA, near me, feedback, changelog) rather than anything hard to replicate.

    “* still reviewing code for SMMAgent (yibelegn trying to read AI generated code 😭) * PWA, near me, feedback and changelog added to spots. Much cooler stuff coming this week * Kinda lost the plot for the nameless project. Might abandon it * Did not work at all on vennett * Did not get started on Burry * Done. You will hear about this soon * Also finished a completely unplanned small side project. ”

    Post · @thebludragon · 29 Jun 2026 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

Momentum

Did the updates keep coming?

Spots was built in a weekend and updated over about nine days in June, then went quiet. There have been no signs of shipping for 100 days.

0/100

  • Sustained shipping0/60

    Worked on across 9 days.

  • Consistency0/40

    Updates in 1 of 1 month.

  • Quiet

    No update for 100 days, so scaled to 49%.

Receipts (2)

  1. Earliest post about it.

    “My girlfriend hated when I made her pick places to go out. And I don't really know too many places around the city (me dev. outside bad 🙂‍↔️). So I built this last weekend. Spots scrapes popular review channels on TikTok and displays the results all in one place. You can save a spot, make a list of all the places you've been to with notes and reviews, and you can see what other people have said”

    Post · @thebludragon · 20 Jun 2026 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  2. Most recent post about it.

    “* still reviewing code for SMMAgent (yibelegn trying to read AI generated code 😭) * PWA, near me, feedback and changelog added to spots. Much cooler stuff coming this week * Kinda lost the plot for the nameless project. Might abandon it * Did not work at all on vennett * Did not get started on Burry * Done. You will hear about this soon * Also finished a completely unplanned small side project. ”

    Post · @thebludragon · 29 Jun 2026 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

Infrastructure

Does a real, working product exist?

A working, live web app with its own domain and HTTPS, plus saved lists and a PWA. It's thin, with no accounts, docs or support contact found.

64/100

  • It's live20/20

    http://spots.buildin21.com/ responded when checked.

  • HTTPS5/5

    Served over HTTPS.

  • Real product25/35

    The site is live and the posts describe working features (scraping, saving, lists, near me, PWA), but the product is thin and the page text shows little depth.

  • Own home10/10

    Lives on its own domain (spots.buildin21.com).

  • Maintained0/15

    Last sign of shipping 2026-06-29.

  • Operations4/15

    It's a web app on its own domain with a public repo and a changelog, but the crawler found no accounts, docs, API or status page.

Receipts (5)

  1. http://spots.buildin21.com/ responded when checked.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · spots.buildin21.com (opens in a new tab)

  2. The site loads and is titled as date ideas around Addis Ababa.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · spots.buildin21.com (opens in a new tab)

  3. Reports PWA, near me, feedback and changelog shipped on top of the initial build.

    “* still reviewing code for SMMAgent (yibelegn trying to read AI generated code 😭) * PWA, near me, feedback and changelog added to spots. Much cooler stuff coming this week * Kinda lost the plot for the nameless project. Might abandon it * Did not work at all on vennett * Did not get started on Burry * Done. You will hear about this soon * Also finished a completely unplanned small side project. ”

    Post · @thebludragon · 29 Jun 2026 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  4. Facts show no accounts, docs or status page.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · spots.buildin21.com (opens in a new tab)

  5. Links a GitHub repo for the project.

    “My girlfriend hated when I made her pick places to go out. And I don't really know too many places around the city (me dev. outside bad 🙂‍↔️). So I built this last weekend. Spots scrapes popular review channels on TikTok and displays the results all in one place. You can save a spot, make a list of all the places you've been to with notes and reviews, and you can see what other people have said”

    Post · @thebludragon · 20 Jun 2026 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

Sustainability

Is it being set up to last?

It has no payments, pricing, privacy policy or terms, and no visible way to earn money. The creator spreads attention across many side projects, and activity has stopped.

30/100

  • Distribution25/30

    A web app on its own domain.

  • Payments0/15

    No payment provider found.

  • Pricing0/10

    No pricing found on the site.

  • Revenue0/5

    No post mentions customers, sales or income, and the site has no payment provider.

  • Privacy policy0/7

    No privacy policy found.

  • Terms0/5

    No terms of service found.

  • Support0/8

    No support contact found.

  • Commitment5/20

    The creator shipped updates for about a week and listed Spots in weekly to-dos, but it's one of many parallel side projects and activity stopped after June 29.

Receipts (4)

  1. A web app on its own domain.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · spots.buildin21.com (opens in a new tab)

  2. No payments or pricing found on the site.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · spots.buildin21.com (opens in a new tab)

  3. Spots updates are one item in a long list of competing projects.

    “Todos June 22/26: * Redesign the editing flow for SMMAgent * Launch updates to spots * Research for a nameless side project (yes another one sue me) * UX redesign for vennett and rethink how strategies work on the platfrom * Actually get started on Burry * Do some recon for a local venture”

    Post · @thebludragon · 22 Jun 2026 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  4. Promised 'much cooler stuff coming this week' while starting more side projects.

    “* still reviewing code for SMMAgent (yibelegn trying to read AI generated code 😭) * PWA, near me, feedback and changelog added to spots. Much cooler stuff coming this week * Kinda lost the plot for the nameless project. Might abandon it * Did not work at all on vennett * Did not get started on Burry * Done. You will hear about this soon * Also finished a completely unplanned small side project. ”

    Post · @thebludragon · 29 Jun 2026 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)