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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.
