Hawaiʻi · Phase 1
Homeless X is a peer network for people looking for shelter or food in Hawaiʻi, and for family, volunteers, and donors trying to help without exposing someone’s location.
Map
The map shows shelters, food banks, soup kitchens, and outreach points drawn from OpenStreetMap. Tap a pin for the name, category, hours, phone, wheelchair access, operator, and distance from you.
Homeless shelters, food banks, soup kitchens, and outreach. A plain picnic shelter, bus shelter, or animal shelter does not. Facilities limited to women, children, seniors, or people leaving abuse stay off the public map unless they are also tagged for people experiencing homelessness.
Other people. The map can show your own location to you. Someone else’s precise location stays off the map. A donor, family member, or public viewer cannot see another person’s pin. Quiet mode tightens that further.
The first launch uses a local Hawaiʻi seed. Later refreshes can ask OpenStreetMap and keep a local cache, with basic duplicate removal. Maui and Kauaʻi can show no pins when the source has no matching public facility.
Place data is © OpenStreetMap contributors. Homeless X does not operate these facilities and does not guarantee that a listed kitchen is serving today.
Food alerts
People who are seeking help, volunteering, or using a public account can post a food alert. The list can be filtered by distance. A donor can read alerts and cannot post them.
A person can post a weather notice against a pinned location. This build does not call a weather service. The provider key is a stub in the app config.
Boards
Both boards are in the app. Skill posts can be framed as job mentorship. Donors can read them and cannot post. Family accounts can post skills. Public accounts can post and cannot open messages.
Post an item and mark a claim. The record stays with the account on that device.
Threads stay inside the app. A message is not passed through other people. An address or precise location is withheld until both people confirm. Every thread and profile has a report button. Reports are stored on the device in this build.
Quiet mode
Quiet mode hides your location from everyone who is not on your trusted-contact list. Seeking and volunteer accounts may see another person’s pin only when quiet mode is off, or when it is on and they are trusted. You always see your own pin.
Referrals
Each account can generate a code and share it. Signing up with a code does not raise a tier by itself. In this build, the person who shared the code can run a stand-in for the 30-day activity check. It does not wait 30 real days. Tiers stop at three. Perk text is a placeholder and does not unlock features.
A public-tier account with zero referrals still sees the map, food alerts, lost and found, and skill share.
Not in this build
Privacy
This website has no forms, no accounts, and no analytics. The phone app can export your profile, posts, and messages as JSON, and can delete the personal record after you confirm. Location history on the device rolls off after 30 days. The full notes are on the privacy page.
Homeless X is a project of apphaus. This page describes the Phase 1 phone app. It is not an intake form and not an emergency service. If you need immediate help, use local emergency services.