What is Sceniq?

The pitch fits in one sentence: the favorite spots of your favorite creator, on a map you can buy.

A map, not a booklet

Open a guide and you are looking at a region with pins on it. Each pin is a spot the creator stands behind: their photos, a few honest lines on what it is and why you would go, plus the facts that decide a morning, how you get in, how hard it is, when the light peaks.

Filters sit on top of the map. Narrow it by region, effort, access or best light and the guide shrinks to the trip you are actually taking.

Everything runs in the browser on your phone or laptop, behind your account. There is nothing to install.

Made by one person, on purpose

Every guide has a single author, and their name is on it. The photography is their own, every outside shot is credited by name, the notes are theirs, and if a spot disappoints, you know exactly who told you to go.

Creators apply to sell here, and a person reads every application. The bar is plain: you sell spots you have stood at, photographed yourself and can write about from experience. More on the people behind the guides.

The first guide on the shelf

The first guide on Sceniq is Gems of Switzerland by Hikebeast, the project of Swiss photographer Leon Helg. It maps 134 spots he has hiked and photographed across many summers in the Alps, gathered into collections that run from regions like Valais and Ticino to a short list of his favorite hidden gems. It costs $29.

Tap a pin and the entry reads like a friend briefing you: what the place actually is, the hour the light earns the walk, and the one practical detail nobody thinks to mention until they have stood there. That texture is what you are paying for.

What it costs

Browsing is free, and every sales page shows what a guide holds before you pay. A guide is a one-time purchase at a price its creator sets, starting at $9. No subscription, no account fee.

Checkout runs on Stripe. Saftladen GmbH, the Swiss company behind Sceniq, sells every guide as merchant of record and takes care of VAT, receipts, refunds and payment questions.

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