OnRoady is a marketplace for the view out the windshield. Someone wants to see a place they can't be. Someone else is already driving past it.
The everyday problem
There is a quietly universal itch: wanting to see somewhere you are not.
A location scout wonders whether that stretch of coastal highway still has the mural on the retaining wall. A road-trip planner wants a fresh look at the pass before committing to a Tuesday drive. A project manager needs a second set of eyes on a job site two states away, mid-afternoon, without booking a flight. A grandparent in Ohio wants to know whether the small-town parade actually got rained out, or whether the local news is being dramatic again.
None of this is exotic. It is normal, everyday curiosity about places we can't personally be in the next hour. And until recently, the only options were to drive there yourself, ask a friend, or squint at a webcam that may or may not exist.
OnRoady exists because there is a simpler answer sitting in plain sight.
The everyday supply
Millions of people drive past these places every day. A driver passes the mural, the coastal pass, the job site, the parade route, usually without noticing that anyone else in the world would have paid to see it. Nobody films it, because nobody has a reason to, and by evening the view is gone.
That coverage is wasted. There has never been a clean way for the person on the other end to say "I would pay for thirty seconds of that" and the person driving past to say "I am going that way anyway." No standard price. No easy handoff. No trust layer.
OnRoady is the marketplace that unlocks it. Drivers who are already on the road earn by filming a spot they were already going to pass. Requesters get a look at places they were already curious about. Nobody drives anywhere new. The route was already happening; the camera just comes along.
The three-step flow
The whole product is three moves.
- Post or claim. Requesters describe what they want to see and where. A stretch of road, a landmark, a stretch of coastline at golden hour. Drivers in the area get notified when their route overlaps.
- Submit. A driver claims the request and films it in the app on the next pass, with the phone mounted. Automatic processing blurs bystander faces and license plates before anyone else sees it.
- Review. The requester watches the clip and accepts the match. Payment releases from escrow to the driver.
That's the product. Everything else is the plumbing that makes those three steps feel boring in a good way.
How we keep it safe
The marketplace works only if both sides trust the surface it rides on. A few things that are true by default, not by request:
- Automatic bystander blur. Faces and license plates in uploaded clips are blurred before delivery. The driver doesn't have to remember; the requester doesn't have to ask.
- Audio off by default in all-party-consent states. In California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Oregon, Washington, and Connecticut, audio recording is disabled by default. Drivers in one-party-consent states are responsible for their own local compliance.
- Identity verification before payout. Drivers complete KYC before any money moves. Payouts run through Stripe.
- Prohibited-use screening. Every bounty is screened against a use-case list that keeps the marketplace pointed at legitimate curiosity: travel, landmarks, road conditions, project sites, the view. Requests that don't fit don't post.
- Three-report auto-suspension. Three reports on a single bounty pull it off the public map into admin review automatically. The bar to pause a request is deliberately low.
None of this is glamorous. It is the load-bearing wall behind everything else.
What happens next
OnRoady is coming to Google Play soon. iOS is parked for now while we wait on Apple Developer enrollment; if you're on an iPhone, join the waitlist and we'll ping you when there's something to open.
The marketing site you're reading right now is also the front door for everything non-app: the waitlist, general support at support@onroady.app, privacy and data requests at privacy@onroady.app, and copyright notices at dmca@onroady.app. If you want to reach a person, those inboxes are read by people.
Our mailing address is OnRoady, 101 E. San Fernando St, San Jose, CA 95112.
Someone is already driving past. OnRoady is where the view goes to find someone who wanted to see it.