About Diskuva

Your personal, on-demand guide to Melbourne — built by the people who know it best.

Diskuva is a mobile-first platform for immersive, self-guided tours of Melbourne. Local experts — photographers, historians, walking tour guides, and passionate residents — create rich interactive guides that travellers can explore entirely at their own pace.

Think of it as a digital bookstore for local experiences: creators are the authors, travellers are the readers, and every guide is a curated journey through the stories, places, and hidden details that make Melbourne unlike anywhere else.

What a guide includes

Each guide is a themed collection of places — a walking tour of Gold Rush laneways, Melbourne's best coffee spots, iconic street art precincts, or the city's most photogenic corners. For every stop, you get:

• Video and audio content that tells the story of the location
• An interactive map with precise navigation to each spot
• Insider knowledge — the kind a local friend would share, not a guidebook
• Complete flexibility — explore in any order, at any pace, on any day

There are no tour groups, no fixed schedules, and no hurrying to keep up. Purchase a guide once and it is yours to return to whenever you visit.

The traveller experience

Imagine arriving in Melbourne with a guide built by someone who has spent years photographing its laneways, researching its Gold Rush history, or hunting down its best kept-secret cafes. Instead of piecing together fragmented blog posts or following a generic top-ten list, you have a personal companion in your pocket — one that builds anticipation before you go, brings each place to life while you are there, and leaves you with stories worth sharing.

Travellers consistently discover places they would never have found on their own: the tiny cafe down an unmarked laneway, the building facade that hides a remarkable story, the viewpoint that only the locals know. That is the Diskuva experience.

The creator experience

Diskuva gives Melbourne's local experts — photographers, videographers, historians, guides — a place to turn their knowledge into lasting work. Social media content disappears into feeds. A Diskuva guide stays valuable: a traveller might purchase it months after a creator published it, on the day they land in Melbourne.

Creators repurpose their best photos and short videos into structured, navigable experiences, or build entirely new in-depth content that simply does not fit the short-form format of other platforms. Each guide becomes a digital asset — earning income over time rather than fading after 48 hours.

The feedback creators receive is different too. Not likes or follower counts, but messages from travellers who say a guide completely changed how they saw the city, or that they found a hidden gem they still talk about years later.

Currently available in Melbourne

Diskuva currently focuses on Melbourne, Australia, with guides covering the CBD, inner suburbs, laneways, food and wine, street art, history, public transport, and walking tours. The platform is designed to expand to other cities as local creator communities grow.

Follow us

For behind-the-scenes content, new guide announcements, and Melbourne inspiration, follow Diskuva on Instagram: @diskuva