Notes
What we're thinking.
Product decisions, design choices, open doubts. We write here when something is ripe enough to be read from the outside.
A walk is an event
We put walking at the top of the activity grid. Not an athletic choice: a social one.
Sixteen languages, one square
Translating a proximity chat is different: your neighbor's language is not a market, it is a neighbor.
When words become plans
Events were born watching conversations that ended with 'come on, let's set it up'.
Eleven themes: why so many, and why exactly these
A short list of coding traditions, nothing more.
Why we started from proximity
Distance isn't a feature of the product. It is the product.
Offline, on purpose
GeoChat also works with no network, over Bluetooth. Not a demo trick: consistency.
The radius is not a filter
Two hundred meters is not a technical setting: it is a promise.