Creator city guide

When your content comes from creators — food bloggers, video makers, local influencers — the home screen should feel like their posts, not a database of places. This screen is a city guide built from creator posts:

• Navigation bar — a capsule search field in the center and the current city on the right (a menu when you pass cities). Both stay pinned while the page scrolls; on iOS 26 they float as glass.
• Local creators — 100pt rounded-square portraits, name, and "N spots" (how many places that creator recommends in this city). Shimmer while loading, colored initials tile if there's no photo.
• New finds — a two-column waterfall. Each card is one post: the cover at its real aspect ratio (so the columns stagger naturally, like Xiaohongshu / Pinterest), the place name set on the photo in a frosted material, two lines of the creator's take, then the creator's avatar and name with an upvote count.
• Search — typing filters finds by place, creator or text, highlights every match in brand green and hides the creators rail; clearing restores it.

Extracted from a shipped food-map app (originally Chinese-only; rebuilt here in English) with the backend, location services and caching layers stripped out. Data comes in as plain structs; taps, city changes, pagination and refresh go out through closures.