San Diego runs on locals.
Magpie is building San Diego's founding creator roster now: people who live here, post honestly about the businesses here, and get comped by the places their own followers can actually visit.
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Magpie is free for creators. Always. Businesses pay the platform. You never pay to join, to list, or to get booked.
Local businesses in San Diego comp local creators a meal, a service or an experience, and creators post honestly, with the goal of posting within 48 hours of the visit.
How it works: claim your spot in about a minute, get your decision, finish your profile, and take first pick of comp offers when San Diego opens. Paid cash campaigns sit on top of comps, and Headliners (15,000+ followers) are first in line for them. Invite other creators with your personal link and earn Momentum points: +3 per sign-up, +10 per approval. Points order the creator list businesses see.
The San Diego market
California · Founding sign-ups open
San Diego is a founding Magpie market, listed by its anchor city. Founding sign-ups are open now: the San Diego founding roster forms in application order, and the market opens in a launch wave once its roster is ready. The full metro definition for San Diego is published as the market opens.
Magpie keeps this page honest on purpose: no invented neighborhoods, no borrowed lists. What is true today is that San Diego creators and businesses can claim founding status now, in sign-up order, before the market opens.
Creator tiers in San Diego
One roster for San Diego, three bands. Magpie starts at 500 total followers across your platforms. Tiers are set automatically by your total audience across platforms, and they rise as you grow.
- Everyday people with a local following
- Comp only
- Perfect first step into local posting
- Regular local posters, the roster's sweet spot
- Comp plus roster perks
- Priority access to new businesses
- Established local creators
- Comp plus eligibility for paid hero campaigns
- First pick of grand openings and launches
Magpie starts at 500 total followers across your platforms. Your tier is set automatically by your total audience across platforms, and it moves up as you grow. What gets you booked past that founding bar is an audience that is actually local and actually engages.
For San Diego businesses
When the San Diego market opens, local businesses post comp offers (a meal, a service, an experience) and founding creators claim them, visit like real customers, with the goal of posting within 48 hours of the visit. Every post is tracked; if a week passes with no post, the visit is replaced, and no creator can ever be required to post positively.
Ads reach everyone except the people who live nearby. Magpie puts San Diego creators who live here inside your business, posting to neighbors who can walk in this week.
Join the founding list
Applications are reviewed in order. Your category spot in your trade area is held from the day you apply, and founding pricing is held while you remain subscribed.
Pick your plan
Self-Service at $199 a month (up to 5 creator visits a month, about $40 per visit), Growth at $349 a month (up to 10 visits), or Managed at $699 a month (up to 20 visits) with a coordinator running everything. Three-month minimum, then month to month.
Activate at launch
Your plan begins when San Diego opens, in a launch wave as the founding roster completes. Nothing is charged before that.
Apply as a founding business How Magpie works for businesses
Straight answers
Is Magpie live in San Diego yet?
Founding sign-ups are open in San Diego now. Offers launch in waves as the founding roster fills. Creators who sign up now are founding creators: their status and their place in application order never expire. Businesses join the founding list now and activate when the market opens.
How do I join Magpie as a creator in San Diego?
Sign up free in the Magpie app at app.magpielocal.com with San Diego as your market and your real home city. Magpie starts at 500 total followers across your platforms. Your tier is set by followers: Neighbors (500 to 2,000), Locals (2,000 to 15,000) or Headliners (15,000+). When San Diego opens, founding creators see every comp offer first.
How does a San Diego business join?
Apply for the founding business list on the business page. Your category spot in your trade area is held in application order, founding pricing ($199 a month Self-Service, $349 a month Growth or $699 a month Managed) is held while you remain subscribed, and your plan begins when the San Diego market launches. Nothing is charged today.
What does Magpie cost a business in San Diego?
Published pricing, the same in every market: $199 a month for Self-Service (up to 5 creator visits a month, about $40 per creator visit), $349 a month for Growth (up to 10 creator visits a month, about $35 per creator visit) or $699 a month for Managed (up to 20 creator visits a month), with a 3-month minimum and then month to month. Founding businesses get $100 off the first month. Visits you don't use roll into the next month, then expire. The only other cost is the comp the business chooses to offer, provided at its cost, not retail.
I live near San Diego, not in it. Can I still join?
Yes. Sign up in the app with your real home city. Founding sign-ups are open in San Diego now, and creators in any city can apply once they reach 500 total followers across their platforms: if your city is not a listed market yet, your sign-up starts its list, your founding place is held in sign-up order, and signup counts are how Magpie picks what opens next.
Somewhere else? Your city could be next
Magpie is expanding rapidly, and anyone can sign up from any city, listed or not. Sign up now and finish your profile, and you are in your city's founding circle when it opens: first pick of its first businesses goes to completed founding profiles. Cities open where creators pile up first, and every completed profile moves its city closer.
San Diego's founding roster is forming in sign-up order.
Creators join free and hold founding status forever. Markets open in waves as rosters fill.