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Radi.li?

2026 · Croatia-first map product and owner dashboard for opening-status operations · Digital public utility service

radi.li is a Croatia-first map and dashboard service focused on reliable open-now status, especially for Sundays and holidays where wrong information causes immediate user friction.

radi.li -- karta i nadzorna ploča koje pouzdano pokazuju radi li nešto sada, s posebnim naglaskom na hrvatske nedjelje i blagdane.

This project credentials: Product & software development

Notes from the producer

Radi.li started as somebody else's idea of a public good and became mine to rebuild. I took an earlier scaffold -- it still carries some legacy "otvore.no" naming in the corners -- and rebooted it in April 2026 around one question I actually wanted answered: is this place open now, on a Sunday, in Croatia, without me driving there to find out.

I made two decisions I stand by. First, when the data is uncertain, the app says unknown instead of pretending -- a service that lies once loses you for good. Second, no ads; small operators pay a flat annual fee to keep their own hours honest. What I have not done is pretend it is finished. The config, branding and hardening are done and checked; the dashboard's session handling after magic-link sign-in was still misbehaving when I last logged it, and there is no revenue to brag about. There was earlier press around a product of this name, but that work was not mine, and I am not going to borrow the credit.

- Matija Radeljak

The story

When Croatia tightened the rules on Sunday retail trading, a small but genuinely annoying question worked its way into everyday life: is this place actually open right now? Chains adjusted their hours, exceptions multiplied around public holidays, and the honest answer was usually a shrug. Radi.li is Aning Film's attempt to replace the shrug with a reliable yes, a reliable no, or -- and this is the part most services get wrong -- an honest "unknown".

The product that carries the name today is a 2026 reboot, rebuilt from an earlier scaffold and repositioned around a single decision point. On 20 April 2026 a new PRD (version 0.2) reset the direction: answer open-now for a nearby location, with explicit handling of the Sundays and holidays where wrong information costs someone a wasted trip. The architecture splits into two surfaces -- a map-first public view for the quick check, and an owner dashboard where a small operator maintains schedules, holiday exceptions, and manual status overrides.

The engineering posture is deliberately conservative. Rather than guess availability, radi.li shows uncertain status as unknown; trust is tied to verified, paying operators; and the whole thing runs behind Cloudflare with Google Maps for location and an annual-only subscription model instead of ad noise. Through late April 2026 the work was consolidation rather than spectacle: a development-journal entry on 22 April records pruning inherited code and hardening the runtime with lint checks, and by 30 April the product and design references were aligned under the radi.li identity, with a brand library of 66 prepared images and full operational metadata -- legal entity, payment rails, category scaffolds, bilingual copy -- staged for deployment.

What radi.li proves is the studio's product and tool-building side rather than a finished consumer launch. The configuration and hardening are real and verified; a dashboard session-continuity issue after magic-link sign-in was still open in the latest notes, and there is no booked revenue to report. It is, honestly, a working utility caught mid-build -- a small operator-facing system designed to be maintained, not a demo.

Milestones

2026-04-19 — Cache-policy source of truth set (Cloudflare-first caching for HTML and static assets)
2026-04-20 — PRD v0.2 formalizes the reboot around open-now reliability in Croatia
2026-04-22 — Legacy code pruned and runtime hardened, with lint verification
2026-04-28 — Brand library of 66 matched images prepared for launch surfaces
2026-04-30 — Product and design references aligned under the radi.li identity

Outcomes

Runtime hardened — Legacy code paths pruned and runtime hardened with lint verification recorded in the development journal.
Deployment-ready configuration — Operational metadata populated with legal entity, payment rails, and annual subscription tiers.
Brand library prepared — 66 matched images across two datasets readied for launch surfaces.
Open blocker — Dashboard session continuity after magic-link sign-in remained unresolved in the latest notes.

Radi.li?

Notes from the producer

The story

Milestones

Outcomes

Credits

Press & links

Aning Film