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Byway Marketplace · Made to be driven

Good roads.
Worth sharing.

Routes made by people who know the road. A route to follow, real places to stop, and a plan for each day.

Explore a real byway Create your own

Opening the marketplace…

Choose a view. Take a closer look.

Good roads have a story behind them.

Discover byways made by people who know the road. Each one brings the route, the stops, and the details together.

Explore and publish in the beta. Paid sales and creator payouts are not open yet.

Explore Byway Marketplace

For travelers · Start with the drive

See what a byway carries.

Explore a real route, its mapped stops, and its day-by-day plan. Then open the full journey or browse community byways.

Explore the specimen

For creators · Know the program

Bring the roads you know.

Read what runs in the beta, the creator terms, and the path through Guide Studio. Paid sales and creator payouts are not open yet.

Read the creator program
A listing · Explore one real journey

A listing is a living byway.

This is Loneliest Road in America — 29 stops across Nevada and Utah, with a plan for each of its 3 days. Choose a day, then press a stop to see it on the map.

The journey is a real one from the Byway atlas. The creator byline and listing price are examples.

SpecimenA real journey from the Byway atlas, shown as a listing. The creator byline is a sample; every stop, mile and hour comes from the route.

Loneliest Road in America

Published by your name heresample byline

$7
creator keeps $4.90 · 70%

784 mi20 h drive2 states29 stops · all mapped

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Fernley → Austin

Press a stop to see it on the map. In the app, the same listing routes on real roads, checks weather and open hours at your arrival time, and narrates as you drive.

Route structure sourced from the Wikivoyage guide (CC BY-SA 4.0). Roads, distances and drive times measured by the Byway routing engine.

The source · A real journey

The journey behind the specimen.

The listing above is not a mock-up: it derives from a committed guidebook journey with a page of its own, snapped to real roads — the same corpus every classic trip on Byway comes from.

Status · Labeled honestly

What runs today, what arrives next.

Live in the beta
  • Author byways in Guide Studio — single day or multi-day, with stops
  • Price your byway inside the band, and publish it to the community shelf
  • Travelers open and drive community byways in the app
  • Free while the beta runs — no card, for creators or travelers
With the marketplace launch
  • Creator payouts at the standing split
  • Seller verification before any money moves
  • Price caps enforced by the platform, not the honor system
  • The Founding Guides cohort opens the shelf

Byway sells routes and stories that run in software. It is not a travel agency, does not take reservations, and no one here will call themselves your advisor.

The deal · Plain, and in writing

Simple terms, on purpose.

01

You keep 70%

Byway keeps 30%, and earns it only when you do — no sale, no fee. A platform paid by the split has posted a bond against its own promise to bring you travelers.

02

No creator subscription

A traveler plan is not required to create or publish a byway. There is no creator subscription or listing fee. Submission requires an invitation or approved application; publication follows review of the exact route.

03

The price is yours

You set it inside Byway's published band — $5–35 for routes — so a byway costs like a good coffee, not a course. Byway holds the band and the refund policy, and never discounts your work without you.

$7
25
You keep · 70%$122.50
Byway keeps · 30%$52.50

Hypothetical arithmetic — a price times a number of buyers, split by the standing terms. It demonstrates the deal, not an income.

The engine's share · What the split builds

What Byway does for its cut.

Byway Engine brings a byway's route, mapped places and day-by-day plan together. Creators do not need to buy a traveler plan; the published split is Byway's share when paid sales open.

  • Mapped places

    Every stop in a published byway traces to a real place on the public map — the zero-hallucinations rule applies to paid work hardest of all.

  • Real roads

    Listings route on the same engine that plans every Byway drive, so a purchased byway is navigable the moment it's bought.

  • Weather and hours

    A buyer's copy checks conditions and open hours at their arrival time — the listing stays alive long after you publish it.

  • Narration

    Voice on stops rides Byway's narration runtime. Your knowledge gets told at the moment it matters, mid-drive.

  • Checkout, refunds, paperwork

    Payments, refunds and the tax forms are Byway's job. You publish; the admin is the platform's share of the work.

  • Distribution

    Byways surface where travelers already plan — the app, the atlas, community picks. You bring the road; Byway brings the room.

The path · Apply, build, publish

From knowing a road to selling it.

01

Apply

Apply with the roads you know and your firsthand experience. An invitation or approved application lets you submit a byway for review. Follower counts are not an eligibility requirement.

02

Build in Guide Studio

Start from mapped places and real roads; add the order, the timing, the stories only you know. Single day or a week of them.

03

Publish

Submit the route for review, then choose when to publish the approved version. Free publication requires active creator access; paid publication also requires seller readiness and an open sales program. Paid sales and creator payouts are not open yet.

04

Get paid

Seller verification, then payouts at the standing split — arriving with the marketplace launch. The invite-only Founding Guides cohort goes first.

Know a road worth selling?

Creator applications open with the Founding Guides cohort. Leave an email and we'll write when the door opens — or start building in Guide Studio today.

Open Guide Studio in the app →