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Do you not like any of them?

It's like yin and yang

That's very interesting and I wonder if it is related to your physical fitness? Social interaction and going out does require more from your body and I wonder if this is something you can train for like you train your muscles

Yeah the online interaction can't convey the human warmth as well as irl does for sure.

This is one of those things that if you find people into the same thing, you can instantly bond over since it is quite niche

Those are so important! I often struggle to suggest activities other than sports

Right, the whole aspect of shared culture passed down many generations contain the wisdom that makes sure everyone has a role in the society

Classes are actually so great for meeting new people. Caveat: needs to be in person

Def on the higher end of social media IQ spectrum

Gotta meet where the people are to get them unstuck!

Tennis and rock climbing. Sports are easy gateways for friendship

True that. Especially if you layer the fact that people are less used to socializing so the very act of it becomes emotionally taxing

It is quite drastic. And the number of close friends follow a similar trend too

We built the app with anonymity and privacy in mind where people can communicate using their voice without any vanity (e.g. photos or profiles). We believe voice communication is much better than texts for providing the sense of connection that humans crave since it is the primal method of communication. So far, 100s of people came on and left voice messages. Some even reported that, had it not been for this app, they wouldn’t be here today. We will continue to strive to end loneliness in the world. We would appreciate your feedback!

We've incorporated many feedback from our previous launch 1 month ago. They include: - Location accuracy reduced further for less-dense regions - Map is more performant

And the major feature update is voice call! You can talk to strangers without vanity, and engage in nuanced and deep conversation much of which is lacking in today's society. If you enjoy a conversation with someone and want to continue at a later time, you can click 'Send name card' to send each other anonymous contact mechanism.

Feel free to reach me at albert@bubblic.co

I think it was caused by too frequently updating map. If you get a chance to check it out again, let me know if the issue has been resolved :)

cool, DM/email me :)

That game is real cool! There was a comment on its Steam page, describing the game like, this is a game that shouldn't exist yet it does. The fact that this game is selling shows that there is a market for a product like this. People are lonely out there.

:) thanks!!

Hm.. maybe then the website is not for you.

Hey supernihil, could you expand on your comment? I would like to know so I can make the changes. Did that happen in the past few hours? I made changes 8 hours ago to fix some minor issues btw

No offense taken! I just wanted to share where I was coming from, and the future readers of this post would get a better context this way anyways.

Hopefully I can go further than making people feel good momentarily. I will think and work endlessly for that end.

I just turned off map-jumping for now. You should now have uninterrupted map-scrolling experience. Please refresh the page for the updated version. Sorry for the confusion :P

What if I framed it as “helping people with what I can offer”? I am one person with one set of experiences. I would not claim to know what causes loneliness for everyone, and the helping hand that I offer might be of no help to many. But I try my best, based on my personal experience of loneliness and what I had wished to be there when I was lonely, maybe I can build something for that other person who may be going through something similar and they would cope with it faster and better that I had.

That is all. I am no messiah claiming to have a panacea for loneliness, but just a human being offering help to other human beings.

all the lonely people~ where do they all come from~ they are all around us, suffering silently.

That seems to be focused on creators. I want a platform for the people.

Great point. I need to look into this. If you find a link to it, please keep me posted

I think I have the recipe for the secret sauce, which I am running tasting sessions in my head and my partners haha

Definitely, there is a need to actually TALK to people, not just shouting into the void. I think there are plenty of forums/text messaging apps out there. I am trying to solve with voice, but a bit nuanced from Clubhouse, Discord, or Twitter spaces. Hope to add the feature soon here!

Nice, I love the graphics. Which framework did you use? Phaser? or just React?