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PlacedMaybe just around your cornerEvery find makes someone’s dayHow it works
From paintbrush to world tour
Making a happy stone takes an afternoon. Following it can take years. Here’s how it works, for makers and finders.
1. Paint your stone
Take a smooth stone and turn it into something cheerful. Acrylic paint and a coat of clear varnish work best — that way your artwork survives rain and sun.
Tip: write "happystone.id" on the back so the finder knows where to go.
2. Register & get an ID
Create a free account and register your stone with a photo and a name. It gets a unique ID like HS-7F2K — write it on the stone. That ID is its passport: every find is linked to it.
3. Place it somewhere
Leave your stone where someone can find it: a bench, a tree stump, a windowsill. The app saves the GPS location and the status switches to "placed".
Don’t bury it or hide it where animals live — visible is better.
4. Someone finds it
The finder enters the ID and logs the find. You get a notification and instantly see where your stone turned up.
5. And it travels on
The finder may keep the stone, but it’s more fun to place it again somewhere new. Every stop lands on your stone’s journey page. Some stones cover thousands of kilometres.
A stone’s journey
Four statuses, one story
On the map, in lists and on the journey page you see the same colours and icons everywhere.
Owned
In your pocket: registered, not yet placed.
Placed
Outside: waiting somewhere for a finder.
Found
Found: someone logged the find. Celebration!
Lost
Lost: no news for a while. It can always turn up again.
Found a stone?
See its journey with one ID
Enter the stone’s number and you instantly see where it came from. Logging the find happens in the app.
