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Minyan Radar: Find the Tenth
Minyanim That Need People
Find the tenth.
A minyan is short, and it needs people in the next twenty minutes, not next week. Someone posts a call. Anyone nearby sees it and taps "I'm coming." The count fills in live until the card turns gold and reads "They have it, thank you." That is the whole app.
How it works
- Post a call in about fifteen seconds: where, what, when, how many you still need
- See the calls near you, sorted by when they start, with the distance and a countdown
- Tap "I'm coming" and the number moves on everyone's phone
- The count sits on your Lock Screen while you wait, if you posted it
- Optional: get told when a minyan near you needs people, off until you turn it on
- Choose your radius: 1, 3, 8 or 25 km
What it knows about you
Nothing, and that is a design constraint rather than a promise. There are no accounts, no names and no profiles. Your phone generates one random identifier that exists so you can cancel your own call: it identifies a post, not a person, and reinstalling makes a new one. Coordinates are rounded to about a hundred metres before anything is written. Calls expire automatically, usually thirty minutes after they start, and nothing is kept afterwards. Responders are a number, never a list.
Things we'll say out loud
Nobody moderates this. A call is free text typed by a stranger. You can hide a poster's calls on your own phone, but nothing is sent anywhere and nobody reviews it. The app is also only as good as your neighborhood's use of it: if it is empty where you are, it says so, and suggests you send it to your shul's WhatsApp group, because that is honestly what fixes it.
