Live in your neighborhood
LocalPulse connects the shops on your street with the people who love them — live promotions from businesses, and deals shaped by the community's own votes.
One app, two experiences — choose your side when you sign in.
How it works
This is the heart of the model. Customers suggest the deals they actually want. The business features its three favorites, the community votes, and when the deadline passes the winner goes live automatically — and the person who suggested it gets a prize. Watch it happen:
118 Market St · Coffee shop
Pick up to 3 to put in front of your customers.
1 / 3 featured
One vote per contest. Results stay hidden until the round ends.
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Meet your assistant
Pip is the LocalPulse pin brought to life: coral shell, a heartbeat for a smile, and a green pulse antenna that lights up when something is happening near you. Pip is not decoration. It is a working assistant built into the app, one tap away on every main screen.
One platform, two winners
For the business
Most promotion tools guess what customers want. LocalPulse asks them — then turns the answer into revenue.
Traditional discounting is a guess: you pick a number, run it, and hope. On LocalPulse the sequence is reversed — customers propose the deal, the community votes, and only then does it go live. You are never spending margin on an offer nobody asked for, because the demand is proven before the promotion exists.
Every suggestion is a customer telling you, unprompted and in their own words, what would bring them through your door. Agencies charge thousands for focus groups that produce less honest signal. Over a few contest rounds you build a picture of your market that no competitor without LocalPulse can see.
A contest creates three return visits from one mechanic: people come back to vote, come back to see whether their pick won, and come back to claim the winning deal. That is a repeat-visit engine running in the background of your business, and it resets automatically every round.
Claims measure interest; in-store redemptions measure feet through the door; the redemption rate ties them together. When a customer redeems, you can even log the amount spent — so over time you see not just which offers pulled visits, but which ones earned money.
Refer another business and a free month is applied to your bill automatically when they subscribe. Local owners know local owners — a few referrals and your own subscription effectively pays for itself, while the platform your customers use gets richer.
Ask Pip "When does my contest end?" or "How am I doing?" and it answers from your live data — deadline, claims, redemptions, rate. Every rule of the platform, from featuring limits to SP- codes, is one question away. It is like having a staff member who read the manual so you never have to.
For the local member
LocalPulse is free for members — and it gives you something no coupon app can: a say.
The Nearby feed is built from your actual location and a radius you control — five miles for a lunch break, fifty for a weekend plan. Every listing is a real local business with a live offer, across twenty-three categories from coffee to auto care, so the feed reflects your actual neighborhood rather than a national coupon dump.
One vote per contest, locked once cast, results hidden until the end — no bandwagons, no piling on a frontrunner, no gaming it. Your voice carries exactly the same weight as everyone else's, and it decides something real: an actual deal at an actual business you can walk into.
Suggest the deal that wins the vote and the business's prize is yours the moment the round ends — automatically, no claiming forms, no fine print. An SP- code appears in your My Offers, redeemable at the very business your idea just improved.
Tap to claim and a pulse code is yours instantly — no printouts, no sign-ups, no apps-within-apps. Everything you've claimed and every prize you've won waits in one tab, marked Ready or Redeemed, so at the counter it's a five-second show-and-go.
Craving something specific? Tell Pip — "tacos," "haircut," "somewhere to work out" — and it searches every live offer nearby, understanding what you mean, not just what you typed. The best matches come back ranked, one tap from claiming. And any question about how the app works, Pip answers on the spot.
When a contest you voted in resolves, you hear about it first — a note lands in your My Offers naming the winner. If it was your pick, the deal you chose is already live and waiting for you. Few things build loyalty like walking into a shop to use the offer you helped choose.
The market, live
A neighborhood is not a directory — it is a living thing. Chain-store apps show you the same offers in every city. LocalPulse shows you what is happening on your streets right now: which shops are running deals this afternoon, which contests are open, which ideas your neighbors are voting on. That is a market pulse, and reading it changes how you spend.
Coffee shops to auto services, salons to tutoring — the full breadth of your local market in a single view, filtered your way.
Dial the radius from a five-minute walk to a weekend drive. The feed reshapes around wherever you are standing.
Every business on LocalPulse is a subscribed local operator — when you claim here, your money stays in the neighborhood.
More than a discount
There is a quiet shift that happens the first time your vote decides a real deal at a real place. You are no longer just a customer receiving whatever a business decides to offer. You helped write the menu of offers. You have a stake in the outcome, a reason to walk back in, and a story that starts with "that deal? We voted for that."
That is the belonging LocalPulse is built on: members who feel like part of the community — and part of the businesses themselves. Businesses do not just gain customers; they gain co-authors.
"I suggested the first-hour discount half as a joke. Two weeks later it was a real promotion with my name on the win — and my free drink waiting."
Sam T. · Member, Frederick MD"My regulars argue about which suggestion to feature next. They have opinions about my shop. That is not marketing — that is community."
Owner · Riverstone Coffee Co."The deal I voted for won. I went in that week just to use it — and honestly, just to see it on the board."
Priya M. · Member, Frederick MDJoin in
Members join free and start claiming today. Businesses go live with unlimited promotions, the Deal Contest, market explore, and referral rewards.