The human behind the wheel

Hi — I'm Steve. PointMe is built by one person: me. No investors, no growth team, no meeting where someone said the word "engagement." Just a long-standing grudge against the phrase "fastest route."

Google Maps is a miracle, and I use it like everyone else. But it optimizes for exactly one thing: arrival. Every mile between you and the destination is treated as a cost to be minimized. I think those miles are the whole point. The giant fiberglass dinosaur two exits over, the overlook nobody signed, the diner with the questionable pie — that's the trip. The arrival is just where the trip stops.

So I built the app that treats the drive as the destination.

PointMe gives you a glowing beam instead of a route when you want one, a catalog of nearly two million stops when you're wondering what's out there, and a logbook that only believes miles — Road Cred badges are earned by GPS-verified arrivals, not couch reviews.

Because it's just me, the economics are honest: the core app is free forever, the paid tier funds the servers and the map data, and there will never be ads, because you can't sell both detours and billboards. If PointMe makes money, it's because road-trippers liked it enough to pay for it. That's the whole business model.

It launches for real on November 11, 2026 — the Route 66 Centennial, one hundred years to the day after America numbered its most famous road. Until then, the beta is open and free.