Večernji list, one of Croatia’s largest daily newspapers, published a feature on Nema dima (“No Smoke”), the app built by Crisp founder Martin Kajtazi. Until now, the only way to find out whether a café allowed smoking was to walk in. Nema dima answers that question in advance, which matters most to non-smokers and families with children.
Speaking to Večernji, Martin explained that the project grew out of his own frustration: as a non-smoker, he was tired of having to check whether smoking was allowed every time he went out for coffee. After finding social media groups full of people sharing the same problem, he decided to build a proper solution: developing, maintaining and funding it entirely on his own.
The site covers more than 13,000 venues across Croatia, including cafés, restaurants and bars, and lets users filter by their own preferences: smoking venues, smoke-free ones, or those with separate rooms. The community can vote, report inaccurate information and add missing venues.
Within just a few days of launch the site recorded more than three thousand individual users, with people from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina reaching out to say they would love to see something similar in their own countries.