01 · Principle
Records that stay put
Every entry has a permanent home. We update it in place instead of publishing a new version every week.
About
A quieter way to catalogue what matters.
Mahestaan is a working catalogue with two shelves — a directory of places and a library of references — kept usable, current, and quietly connected.
Our approach
Structure without stiffness.
We built this because most of what we needed was scattered — a place lived in one app, a reference in another, and neither pointed at the other.
So we made one catalogue with two shelves and a single search. A place cites a reference. A reference names a place. Both stay in view.
No feeds, no rankings, no timelines to keep up with. Just records that stay put, get verified, and get better over time.
Values
How we work — and why.
02 · Principle
Two shelves, one search
The directory and the library share metadata, so one query returns places and references side by side.
03 · Principle
Quiet by default
No notifications, no dark patterns, no infinite feed. Just the catalogue and a way to search it.
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