About Hereish

The Connecticut problem

Someone was driving through Connecticut and genuinely could not figure out what town they were in. No signs. No landmarks. Just trees, a road, and a vague sense of being somewhere in New England.

Navigation apps will happily tell you how to get to a Starbucks. They will not just tell you where you are right now in plain, human terms. Opening Apple Maps to stare at a blue dot and try to read tiny text while driving is not the answer.

So Hereish exists. It shows your current town on a widget. You glance at it. You know where you are. That's the whole story.

One thing, well

Hereish does one thing. It tells you what town you're in. It doesn't track your runs, suggest restaurants, monitor your sleep, or ask you to rate your experience. It puts a town name on your screen and then gets out of the way.

That might sound like a limitation. It's not. It's the entire point. The best tools are the ones you barely notice using. You glance at your wrist or your home screen, you see "Sudbury," and you keep driving. No interaction required. No app to open. Just one piece of information, always there.

Who builds this

Hereish is built by Colin Henson under the dsgnloop label. One person. No team, no investors, no roadmap designed to impress a board of directors. Just someone who wanted to know what town he was in and figured other people might too.

Colin is a product designer with over twenty years of experience building digital products. He spent years designing video streaming applications for companies like the Metropolitan Opera, Reelz, and HBO Asia. He also builds BitDek, an audiophile music player for people who still own their music.

Hereish and BitDek have something in common: they do one thing well, they respect your privacy, and they don't try to become a platform. They're tools. You use them, they work, you move on with your day.

No data. No games.

Hereish costs $2. One time. No subscription, no ads, no "premium tier." Your location is processed entirely on your device and never sent anywhere. There are no analytics SDKs, no tracking pixels, no servers to get breached.

This isn't a business strategy. It's just how things should work when someone sells you a tool that uses your GPS.