Made for your free time

One plan worth doing.
People to do it with.

What's on around you, the local communities behind it, and one thing you can start right now. All in one place. Not ten tabs.

Live it, don't tick it.

A Hic plan in Lugano: the walk Hermann Hesse painted, with lunch at a grotto after
Communities

140 communities. All of them local.

Run clubs, cineclubs, student associations, theatres, jazz nights and 78 museums. Follow the ones that are yours. Their events and news land in one feed, and you know who else is going.

● Lugano

692 Run Club

Runs by the lake, apero after. Everyone welcome.

● Lugano

LuganoCinema93

The cineclub since 1993. Tuesday nights at the Iride, original language.

● Lugano

Fuoricorso

The nights Lugano actually shows up for.

● Ascona

Jazz Cat Club

Jazz, soul and blues nights since 2008.

● Lugano

Giochintavola

Board games every Friday night at the Foce.

● Verscio

Teatro Dimitri

The theatre the clown Dimitri founded.

Run a community in Ticino? Bring it to Hic.

What's on

Tonight, this week, near you.

Concerts, exhibitions, films, talks and club nights, from the city's own agenda and from the communities that run them.

  • Tap Going or Interested. See which friends are in.
  • Add it to your calendar in one tap.
  • Or build a plan around it: dinner before, a drink after.
An event on Hic: Artiglio, a techno night at Porto Bello in Lugano
How it works

Start with one thing. Go.

The hour, the weather and what you like decide the first stop. You decide the rest.

1

Open Hic

One place worth going to, right now. No forms, no filters, no planning session.

2

Add what fits

Lunch after? A drink before? Add the next stop with a tap, or leave it at one.

3

Tap Vamos

Walk there. When you arrive, the place tells its story. At the end, your day becomes a card.

Lugano on the Hic map, with places and communities
The city, with its communities on the map.
The story of Parco Ciani, opened on arrival
You arrive. The story opens.
A finished day in Lugano as a shareable card
Your day, as a card. Keep it or share it.
The idea

Every place wears a surface: the first result, the bar everyone already knows. Underneath is the layer that's yours. Hic shows it when you can still act on it.

Stories, people, music, food, architecture. The same street can be nothing to one person and everything to another.

Parco Ciani · Lugano
Just a park. Unless…
✦The two stone lions on the gate are all that's left of a 1622 palace.
◷With an hour free, it's late light under the big trees, then the shore.
◐From the gate, the lake and Monte San Salvatore, framed.
What Hic is not

The competitor isn't an app. It's friction.

Too many options, too much research, too little certainty to actually go, and the evening slips away. Hic is built for confidence over abundance.

Not a search engine Not a map full of pins Not a "top 10" list Not an endless feed Not a group chat that never decides
The Hic mark, a tree's cross-section
The mark

Why the logo is a tree.

The Hic mark is the cross-section of a tree: rings of history and meaning laid down around a single place, no two alike. Every place has layers. Hic finds the one that's yours.

Hic

Here. Now. Go.

Live in 14 European cities, on iPhone and Android. To live is to explore, so start tonight.

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