Hello World!

Hello, world. Picklecan shipped today, so this first post and the first live version of the app are the same moment. Felt like the right way to say hello.

The tool does one thing. But first — the problem.

You’re reading a good travel article. A solo guide to Barcelona, say. It mentions Park Güell, the Sagrada Família, that quiet café in Gràcia everyone seems to know about. So you open a maps tab, search the first one, switch back, find your place again, search the next. By the third stop you’ve lost track of the first, and whatever sense of the city the article was building — distances, neighborhoods, how things connect — is gone.

I kept doing this. Every trip, same loop.

At some point it occurred to me: I’m a software engineer. I could just build this. So I did — mostly for myself. But if I run into this every time I start planning a trip, probably you do too. So today I’m sharing it with everyone — to find out.

Paste the article’s URL.

Picklecan reads the article, finds every place mentioned, and drops them all on a single map. The Barcelona article found 24. Less than a minute from URL to pins.

You get the map, the list, and the original article is always just a click away — Picklecan links back and never republishes anyone’s writing.

That’s the whole thing. One article in, one map out.

Try it at app.picklecan.com.