We want cities to own their digital future.
Not a startup mission statement. A decade of conviction, infrastructure, and commitment to the communities we serve.
Cities should not rent their communities from California.
"We want European cities to offer meaningful social media services where the objective is not maximising time on screen — but maximising people-to-people time in their surroundings."
For a decade, Townbase has built the infrastructure that allows cities to do exactly this. Not because it was easy — it wasn't. But because it matters.
The platforms that currently dominate local life in European cities were built in California, optimised for advertising revenue, and answer to shareholders who have no stake in your community's wellbeing.
We believe European cities — with their civic culture, GDPR frameworks, and centuries of community identity — deserve a different kind of platform. One built for them, owned by them, and working for them.
That is what we have been building. And with Townbase Ver6, we are ready to scale.
Give cities the platform to run their own social layer — so communities can thrive on their own terms.
This means no 3rd party advertising model. No engagement manipulation. No data sold to third parties. Cities manage the platform. Residents own their presence. Businesses earn through direct value — not attention harvesting. Every feature Townbase builds serves this mission, or it doesn't get built.
What excellence looks like for us.
Civic Integrity
We never build features that work against users. Every product decision is evaluated against whether it genuinely serves the community or exploits it.
Data Sovereignty
Community data stays in the community. EU-hosted, GDPR-compliant, city-controlled. This is structural, not a policy we can change when it's inconvenient.
Fair Value Exchange
We make money when local businesses thrive — not when users scroll longer. That alignment of incentives is the foundation of everything we build.
Long-Term Thinking
No venture capital. No quarterly pressure. Ten years of patient building. We make decisions in decades, not quarters — because cities deserve a partner that thinks the same way.
Be someone in your city.
Not nobody on the internet.
If you run a city, a municipality, a regional authority or a community of your own — and you believe your community deserves better than what it currently gets from USA — we'd like to talk.
Get in touch