Short answer
The live map is where asking happens in the Help Me iPhone app. You can request help or, if your helper review is current, go online. Open requests show as rough areas about 500 meters wide, not pins. It is a working tool, not a feed to scroll for entertainment.
The facts, in one place
- Request help, or go online as a helper.
- Open requests are rough areas, not pins.
- Offers go privately to helpers nearby.
- It is a tool, not a social feed.
Two actions, one map
Request help is how you post an ask. I can help is how a helper with a current review goes online. The map of Fargo-Moorhead is the shared picture, with open requests drawn as rough areas and no list of names.
What you will not see
A pin on anyone's house. A national heat map. A feed you can scroll for fun. Offers go privately to helpers nearby, and the map is operational, not social.
- No pins on people or houses.
- No public list of who needs help.
- No leaderboard of who helps.
How it sits next to Home and Community
Home carries the daily brief and a card into the map. Community carries official events and local posts. If you came for a jump start, open the map. If you came for a show at the FARGODOME, open Community, where it is attributed to Ticketmaster. Helpers can apply to be reviewed by our team. Help Me does not run background checks.
Help Me is not an emergency service. If someone is in immediate danger, call 911 or your local emergency number.
Questions people actually ask
No. Open requests can show as rough areas, but the ask itself is shown privately to helpers nearby. It is not a timeline.
Yes. Requesting help and browsing the map do not make you a helper. Helping needs a current review and an explicit online state.
The product is built for this metro. It launches one zone at a time.
Keep going
- How it worksHow Help Me worksAsk in one sentence. A neighbor nearby can say yes. You chat privately and meet in a public place. Four steps, for the small stuff in Fargo-Moorhead.
- GlossaryApproximate locationHelp Me shows a request as a rough area about 500 meters wide, not a pin on you. Precise location is opt-in after a yes and ends at completion.
- GlossaryA help requestA help request is a short, private ask from the live map. Helpers nearby can say yes. There is no public feed, one live request at a time, two-hour window.
- GlossaryThe daily briefHelp Me Home opens on a short daily brief for Fargo-Moorhead: a welcome, a card into the live map, and a rail of upcoming official events.
- GlossaryOnline statusA helper with a current review chooses when to go online on Help Me. Going offline, closing the app, or going quiet takes you out of the list.
- Fargo, NDFargo: ask your block for the small stuffAsk Fargo neighbors for the small stuff: a phone charger, directions, a daylight jump start. Public places, a private chat, and a closer block than you think.
Help Me is a community app for adults in Fargo–Moorhead. It is not a K–12 student program, not a youth chat, and not campus police.