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Mapped 250 years of American history to the places it happened
iOS app that drops users into historical scenes — articles, nearby sites, curated tours — counting down to America's 250th in 2026 with a location-aware history library you can actually visit.
Xyonz is built for curious adults, not classrooms. Every article puts the reader in the moment — the mud, the gunpowder, the rooms where decisions got made — and then connects that moment to a place that still exists. The product bet is that history hits differently when you can stand on the spot where it happened.
We built the iOS app around three surfaces: the article reader, a map of historical sites near the user, and curated tours that string sites together for a half-day or weekend. Articles work offline so a road trip in patchy coverage still delivers, and the map respects the same data model as the articles so editorial and geo stay in sync.
The roadmap is paced against July 4, 2026 — America's 250th anniversary. Xyonz is shipping articles, maps, and tours on a countdown cadence so the platform peaks exactly when the audience is thinking hardest about where the country came from.
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