Lists of groups we don't scroll, notifications from people we haven't spoken to in years, endless threads where only three people are really talking. Tools made to maintain what already exists, not to make something new.
When we want to meet someone new, the only channel left is the social network: profiles, followers, performance. The conversation comes after, if it comes.
What changes with proximity.
Convosphere starts from a simple idea: proximity is already a filter. If two people are in the same neighbourhood, the same café, the same bus stop, they share something they don't need to declare. That something is the place, and it's enough to begin.
The app opens on a map. You see messages published around you, choose the radius (from 200 metres to a whole city), write. There's no global board. There's no algorithm deciding who you see first. There's only geography.
What we decided not to do.
- No followers, no public metrics.
- No push notifications for messages that don't concern you.
- No ads inside conversations.
- No selling data to third parties.
- No algorithm reordering messages.
What we decided to do.
- Approximate position, never exact.
- One-tap invisibility from the map.
- Direct chats for one-to-one conversation.
- Topic channels for those who want to keep talking from a distance.
- Sfera, a quiet assistant that helps only when called.