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About Have & Seek

Have & Seek is a free, text-first classifieds board where people post what they have (Listings) and what they are looking for (Quests), for goods and local or remote services. Have & Seek is operated by VFR Solutions.

Preview status

Anyone can browse published posts; anyone can create a free account to post and message. Accounts, posts, photos and messages are real and stored in the preview’s database. This is still a preview: features may change, data may be reset before a full launch, and the draft privacy notes and ground rules have not been legally reviewed.

Place data

Have & Seek covers all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands, using 73,545 place and ZIP code records:

• Places: US Census Bureau 2025 Gazetteer files (census.gov).
• ZIP codes: GeoNames postal code data (geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Names and coordinates are reference data, not verified addresses or complete neighborhood lists. Each post is placed at the approximate center of its chosen city or ZIP, and distances are straight-line estimates. Have & Seek never asks for or shows street addresses.

Distances, search areas and maps

Browse distances and Quest search areas can be any whole number of miles from 1 to 1,500. When editing a Listing, its owner sees the published Quests in the same subcategory whose search area covers it (for on-site services, when the Quest area and the provider’s travel radius overlap; for remote work, when both sides accept remote); that list does not compare budgets. On a post’s map, coloured pins mark possible matches by fixed rules: same subcategory and a price within the Quest’s maximum budget, plus, for services, compatible in-person/remote work, overlapping service areas or both remote, and prices in the same unit. Distances are geodesic and calculated in the database. Condition, other details and free text are not compared, so people still review each post.

Maps use MapLibre GL JS with tiles and style from OpenFreeMap, built on OpenMapTiles and data © OpenStreetMap contributors. The circle drawn on a map is an approximation for display.