A hyperlocal guide for one coastline
Ammoudara, properly
One coastline, one guide, built with the people who work on it.
“A place is not a category on a national listings site. Ammoudara is the whole subject — and everyone earning a living on this coast deserves to be findable on it.”
The opportunity
The coast is full of businesses that are hard to find online.
A visitor standing on the beach road can find a global booking site in one search. What they cannot easily find is the taverna two streets back, the family running boat trips since the eighties, or which of tonight's events is actually worth going to.
The businesses know this. Most have a page on a platform that takes a cut, ranks them against a hotel in another country, and answers their customers on their behalf.
Ammoudara is the layer that is missing: a guide to one place, kept accurate by the people in it.
Five guides
Businesses, places, hotels, events and activities — each with its own directory, so a listing is filed by what it actually is.
One coastline
The Ammoudara coast near Heraklion, and nothing else. Not a national directory with a local page bolted on.
Two languages
Greek and English today, at full parity across every screen. French and German are contracted and follow.
Free to join
A listing costs nothing. Paid tiers exist for businesses that want more, and never gate being findable.
Not a listings page. A working guide.
Whatever your part in Ammoudara
Three readers, one guide. What each of them gets from it is different, and all of it is built.
Visitors
Find the place, not the advert
Search the coast by what you are actually looking for, see it on the map, and get in touch with whoever runs it.
- Five directories, searchable and filterable
- An interactive map of the whole coast
- Save the places you want to come back to
Businesses & partners
Your page, kept right by you
Apply once, and your listing is yours to run. Photographs, hours, description and contact details all change from your own portal.
- Enquiries arrive in your own inbox, with the sender's address
- Post a vacancy to the local job board from the same account
- Publish an edit yourself — no support ticket, no waiting
Residents
What is actually on this week
The events and activities guides are for the people who live here, not only for the people passing through.
- Events and activities, by date and by area
- Local vacancies as businesses post them
- The same guide in Greek
Why it matters
Four commitments that decide what gets built, and who is welcome on the platform.
Local before large
A business two streets from the beach should not be ranked against a chain in another country. One coastline is the whole point, not a limitation.
Livelihoods, not leads
An enquiry goes straight to the business with the sender's own address. We do not sit in the middle of a conversation between a customer and the person serving them.
The season, not just the summer
Festivals, name days, the weeks when everything closes and the weeks when nothing does. A guide that only knows August is a guide for tourists.
Checked, by a person
Every application is read before it appears. It takes longer, and it is the only reason being listed here is worth anything.
“We would rather have a small guide that is right than a large one that is nearly right. Every listing here has a person behind it who can be asked — and that is the whole of the idea.”