Show HN: A New Kind of Chat Room

[slapspin]

https://beescribe.com/

I’ve developed an application that reimagines chat rooms by integrating them with a world map. Each user can claim a rectangular piece of land on the map, referred to as a "banner." Users within close proximity are grouped into a chat room by the app. The banner’s size can expand or shrink based on the density of users in the area and the number of coins in the user’s account. Key Features:

    Real-World Interaction Model: Users are pseudo-anonymous, akin to real-world interactions. Coin balance determines user size and visibility ("stature"), while endorsements and other activities form a unique endorsement chart, serving as a digital representation. This allows for interaction without revealing one’s entire social or professional network.

    Community Clusters: Users can form open communities based on real-world locations. New users can discover and join these clusters via heatmaps, without needing specific URLs or hashtags.

    Initial Coins: New users start with 1000 coins. These coins can be used to endorse other users' content, earning stakes in the endorsed banner. When others endorse that banner, the original endorser gains more coins. This endorsement economy is experimental, and could eventually involve crypto tokens.

Useful Points:

    Banner Interactions: Clicking on a banner opens it fully. A button with a chart icon on the top right flips the banner to display the activity chart.

    Compatibility: The application currently works best on Google Chrome.

    Heatmap View: Zooming out on the map reveals a heatmap of banners.

    Side Panel Tabs:
        First Tab: Displays a feed of content from the visible map area.
        Second Tab: Contains the cluster chat.

    Current User Base: At the moment, only my friends and family are using the application, so banners are predominantly found in the Chicago area.

For more details, refer to the white paper provided. I’m excited to share this application and look forward to your feedback!

[pants2]

I can't figure out what it is or what to do when I open the home screen. I see a map with some glowing areas, but clicking on it does nothing. Clicking on the quotes in the top left or the logo does nothing. In the "about" page, it says "Beescribe is a democratic notice board on top of the world map that incentivizes you in crypto tokens." It doesn't say what it really is or why I would want to use it. My first reaction is to close the page because "notice board" sounds super boring and I'm not interested in farming worthless tokens.

[slapspin → pants2]

Can you please lookup "Millennium Park, Chicago" in the search bar on the map and once your map goes to that area you should be able to see a cluster of banners. I have also conceptualized this as a different kind of notice board where content is organized in the two dimensions of the world map. I am really experimenting with the token concept, these are currently not crypto tokens.

[slapspin → pants2]

I will make changes so that clicking in the hot areas of the map zooms into the area. Will post a reply once it is ready. Thanks!

[yogini]

I loved the map design, it's quite fresh. But I kept on clicking the purple dot but it did nothing. Maybe because this is an alpha version.

[slapspin → yogini]

Thanks for the kind words. Yeah, I am going to make changes so that clicking in the purple areas would zoom in. I will reply to this post once the changes are in.

[handfuloflight]

How about letting me at least see an example "banner" without having to login?

[slapspin → handfuloflight]

I read HN's suggestions to make things easy to use without needing to login just today. I will try to make changes so that you can do that, but I will need some time.