CafeRadar Creator KitFor first-run creatorsEdition 2026ES

Your first thirty seconds.

You just got early access, and you have not used CafeRadar before. That is the whole video. Someone scrolling has never heard of it and nobody tagged them, so the clip has one job: make them want the thing you just showed. Here is how, the nine features to film day one, and the clips to copy.


01The one job

Make a stranger want it.

Most people who see your video have never heard of CafeRadar and no one tagged them. They download for one reason: they want the thing you just showed. The perfect flat white. The hidden gem two streets away. The place worth crossing town for.

So every clip sells an outcome, not an app. Stop the scroll in the first second, show the payoff, then make it easy to get. It is free, link in bio.


02The playbook

Nine things to film, day one

This is your first session, in order. Each one is a real feature and a payoff a viewer will want. Film it as discovery, because for you it is.

Film at a real partner cafe. Use Misión Café in Madrid as your hero spot. It is a verified CafeRadar partner with the counter stamp code set up, so the punch-card clip works there for real. Logic Coffee in Madrid is a second partner you can film at too. Featuring a real partner sends actual visits their way, which is the whole point.

Open the app · the map only shows the good ones

Find a cafe on the map

Open to the map full of specialty spots. Tap one. The card slides up with photos and rating.

On-screen textthe map that hides every chain
CafeRadar map of specialty cafes with a red partner pin and the Logic Coffee card sliding up

Tap directions · the distance ticks down live

Walk there, watch it count down

POV walking, phone in frame, the "almost there, 200m" shrinking as you approach. Satisfying and real.

On-screen text200m from Misión Café, Madrid
Walking directions to Mision Cafe in Madrid with a live 5 minute walk countdown

Tap check-in at the cafe · points land

Check in, earn Sips

The check-in tap and the little celebration. You just earned your first Sips for showing up.

On-screen texti get paid in coffee points for this
The check in celebration screen showing Checked In and plus 1 Sips earned, with confetti

Snap your coffee or plate · tap analyze

Scan your drink for the breakdown

Point the camera at your flat white or your brunch, tap analyze, and the estimated calories, caffeine, sugar and macros appear in seconds. Film the snap and the numbers landing. It logs to My Nutrition with your daily total and flags anything against your diet. Every scan saves to your journal, so your coffee diary builds itself.

On-screen textthe calories in my oat flat white, in one tap
AI drink analysis of a mocha with cookie crumble, 380 calories with protein, fat and sugar bars

Scan the counter code · 1 cup = 1 stamp

Scan for your stamp

The stamp lands on the digital punch card. Every visit adds one, and the reward the cafe set is yours when the card is full. No paper card to lose.

On-screen textevery cup stamps my card, and the reward's on the house
Mision Cafe digital punch card at 2 of 9 stamps toward a free coffee, with a Scan QR for Stamp button

Tap ping on the cafe page · send it

Ping a cafe to a friend

Send this exact cafe to a friend in one tap. Film the send and the reply landing. This sells the feeling a viewer wants: being the friend with the best coffee list.

On-screen textbeing the friend with the good coffee list
The send sheet for pinging a cafe to friends, with a Share invite link option

Create it + join from a 2nd account, or a friend hosts and you join

Join a meetup, film the group chat

Easiest shoot: make a meetup and join from a second account, or have a friend create one and you tap join. The moments to capture are the join and the messages landing in the group chat.

On-screen textcoffee plans, sorted in the app in 30 seconds
A live coffee meetup on the map with 5 people going and an Open your get together button

Create a community · invite friends · start talking

Build your own community

Make your own coffee circle, invite your people, drop the first message. Your corner of the app.

On-screen textstarting the group chat my city needed
The Create Community screen for starting your own coffee circle
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Land in a new city · find your coffee people early access

Traveler mode

Tease it, don't demo it yet, it is not live. Hint at the idea: you fly somewhere new, open the app, and it shows the meetups and locals already there. The lonely-traveler hook is gold, we will tell you when to film it for real.

On-screen textlanded in Lisbon, found my people by lunch

03The craft

The thirty-second shape

Every clip is the same three beats. Keep it around thirty seconds, sixty at the most. Post native, vertical, no watermark.

0 to 3s

The hook. One line of text, one striking frame. The pin drop or the map.

3 to 22s

The feature. One of the nine, shown clearly. Phone in frame doing the thing.

22 to 30s

The payoff, then get it. The stamp or the free coffee, then "it's free, link in bio."


04The references

Copy these clips

Your reference set. Watch how each one holds attention, then make it yours with a CafeRadar feature.

@nomadtable.app · the model, study this one

Cafe and food discovery done right: fast cuts, crisp b-roll, warm grade, strong sense of place, the location tag doing half the work. This is the exact energy CafeRadar content should have. Copy: the sip and space shots, the "hidden gem you'd walk past" framing, the pacing, and how the place is the star.

Reference reel · the pace

The exact cut rhythm and on-screen-text timing we want. Copy: the beat where the text hook lands a moment before the visual, and the tight three-cut structure.

The difference for us

NomadTable makes you want the cafe. Our clip makes you want the cafe and shows the app is how you find it, walk to it, and start earning toward a free one. Same aesthetic, one extra beat: the phone doing the thing.


05The rules

The rules, quick

Specialty, not chainsCafeRadar is independent coffee. No Starbucks, no bars.
Warm, not salesyTalk like a friend who found something good. Never an advert.
No em dashesIn captions and text, use commas or periods.
Tag bothThe cafe and @caferadar.app, every post.
Always your linkYour ref code is how installs get credited to you.
Thirty seconds, sixty maxIf it drags, it dies. Cut hard.

What you earn. Once approved as a creator, you make on every real install from your link, paid when that person takes their first check-in. There is a monthly ceiling per creator. Your first job is to get approved and post one clip we can feature.