About Us

About llyn.live — Why we built the Llŷn’s own live guide

Built here. For here.

llyn.live is the Llŷn Peninsula’s own live guide — and a shop window for every business on it.

Every summer, thousands of people arrive on the Llŷn asking the same questions. Is the sea safe to swim today? What’s open in Aberdaron on a wet Tuesday? Where’s a good chippy near the beach?

Until now, the answers were scattered — buried in a dozen Facebook groups, out-of-date websites, and word of mouth. Visitors muddled through. And local businesses, the ones who actually make this place special, were invisible to the very people standing three streets away looking for them.

We built llyn.live to fix that.


Why we made it

A living map of the whole peninsula

llyn.live shows the Llŷn as it is right now. Live weather and tides. Beach water quality straight from Natural Resources Wales. Every café, pub, shop, campsite, beach and attraction on one map — filterable, bilingual, and free for anyone to use.

No other guide does this, because no big national directory cares enough about one Welsh peninsula to keep it live and local. We do — because this is home, and Anything Digital, the business behind llyn.live, is based right here.


Our aim

Keep visitor spending local

2026 has been hard on Llŷn high streets. Rising costs and the rates revaluation are squeezing exactly the independent businesses that give this place its character. We can’t change your rates bill. But we can make sure that when a visitor is standing on the peninsula with money to spend, they find you — not a chain forty minutes away, not a search result for somewhere else entirely.

Our single objective is simple: turn the Llŷn’s visitors into the Llŷn’s customers. Every feature we build serves that.


For business owners

What it does for you

  • A page that works while you don’tYour own listing with photos, opening hours, directions and a live “open now” badge — found by visitors searching the map at the exact moment they’re deciding where to go.
  • Post your own newsToday’s special, an event, a job, something for sale — publish it yourself in seconds, and it shows across the site. No web developer, no waiting.
  • Your own window QR codeStick it in your window. Visitors scan it to open your page, add you to their trip, and find you again later — and you see exactly how many did.
  • Proof it’s workingYour dashboard shows real numbers: how many people viewed your page, scanned your code, and clicked through to your website. No guessing.
  • Bilingual, by defaultYour listing works in English and Cymraeg — reaching every visitor and every local.

The offer

Free to join in 2026

We’re building the most complete guide to the Llŷn there has ever been — and we want every genuine local business on it. So for 2026, claiming your listing is completely free, with the full toolkit: your page, your specials, events, jobs, QR code and stats. No catch.

★ Founder 500

Free for 2026 · limited to the first 500 businesses

The first 500 businesses to claim become Founders — our earliest supporters, who helped build the Llŷn’s own platform. Founders get a badge on their listing, priority placement, and our best rate locked in for the future. When we introduce pricing in 2027, Founders are looked after first. Get in early; the 500 spots won’t last a busy summer.


Who’s behind it

A local business, not a faceless directory

llyn.live is built and run by Anything Digital — a web and digital studio based on the Llŷn. We’re not a Silicon Valley app dropping in to hoover up a corner of Wales. We’re your neighbours, we know the difference between Abersoch in August and Aberdaron in January, and we’ve staked our own name on getting this right.

That’s also why we do things properly: real businesses only, no padded listings, and your data treated with respect. The trust of this community is the only thing that makes a platform like this work — so we guard it.

If you run a business on the Llŷn, this was built for you. Come and claim your page — and let’s make sure this summer’s visitors find their way to your door.