# BlackTop — Launch Copy

**Tagline:** Find your people. Keep the rubber down.
**Voice:** rider-to-rider, direct, grounded, dry. No hype, no emoji. Privacy is a promise, not a pitch.

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## 1. Launch email — to early riders

**Subject:** It's live. No accounts, no catch.
**Preheader:** BlackTop is out. Track your rides, roll with your group, keep it all on your phone.

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Hey,

You signed up early, so you get this first: **BlackTop is live.**

Here's the short version of what it does:

- **Tracks your rides** — routes, miles, and stats, all on your phone.
- **Keeps your garage** — every bike, every log, in one place.
- **Holds the convoy together** — see where your group is on the route, live, while you ride.
- **Gives you rider voice** — talk bike to bike, nothing recorded.

And here's the part we actually care about: **none of it lives on our servers.** No accounts, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. There's no login because there's nothing for us to keep. Your rides are yours.

It's free. Download it, take it on your next ride, and tell us where it falls short — we're new, and we'd rather hear it straight.

**[Get BlackTop →]**

Ride safe. See you out there.

— The BlackTop crew

*Find your people. Keep the rubber down.*

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## 2. Product Hunt launch blurb

**Tagline (60 char):** The ride app that keeps your data on your phone, not ours.

**Description:**
BlackTop is a privacy-first app for motorcycle riders. Track your rides, stats, and garage entirely on-device. Keep your whole group together with live convoy sharing, and talk bike to bike with peer-to-peer rider voice.

No accounts. No ads. No analytics. No tracking. We don't store your rides because we never wanted them — there's no server-side profile, nothing to leak, nothing to sell. Just a tool built by riders, for riders.

Free to download. Find your people, keep the rubber down.

**First comment (maker):**
Hey PH. We're riders who got tired of "free" ride apps that quietly monetize where you've been. So we built BlackTop the opposite way: your routes, stats, and garage stay on your phone, and the social features (live convoy, rider voice) work without an account or a profile to mine. We're brand new and want the honest feedback — what would make this a daily-carry app for your group rides? Thanks for taking a look.

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## 3. Community post (Reddit r/motorcycles-style — respectful, disclosure-first)

> **Read the subreddit rules before posting. Most moto subs require a flair/disclosure for self-promotion and a real willingness to take feedback. This is written to respect that — lead with disclosure, no hype, invite criticism.**

**Title:** [OC / I made this] A privacy-first ride app — on-device tracking + live convoy, no accounts

**Body:**
Full disclosure up front: I helped build this, so this is self-promo — mods, happy to remove if it's out of line.

I ride with a small group and got fed up with two things: ride apps that hoover up location data, and the gas-station chaos when half the group misses a turn. So we made **BlackTop**.

What it does:
- On-device ride tracking, stats, and a garage — stored on your phone, not our servers.
- Live convoy: see where your group is on the route while you ride.
- Peer-to-peer voice so you can talk to your crew, nothing recorded.

What it doesn't do: no accounts, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. There's genuinely no login because we don't keep a profile on you.

It's free, and it's brand new, so it's rough in places. I'm here for the honest feedback — what's missing, what's annoying, what would make you actually use it on a group ride. Tear it apart.

*(Not linking in the body to stay rules-safe — link in profile / will drop in comments if mods are cool with it.)*

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## 4. Elevator pitch (one line)

BlackTop is a privacy-first app for motorcycle riders: on-device ride tracking, live convoy sharing, and bike-to-bike voice — no accounts, no ads, no tracking.