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Show HN: Paint the Earth on a live, interactive globe (collaborative art.)
Earth.tattoo divides the earth into 510 million 16x16 pixel "tiles" that you can own and paint as you like. You can claim one free tile per hour.
- whatsupdog 4mo agoLooks like wplace.live. But you can get 256 pixels an hour, instead of 60 and ownership of tiles is permanent. Cool idea. Do you really expect a lot of people to pay for tiles?
- cadmeup 4mo agosuggestion: show a heatmap of areas with most activity in the past 24 hours or so. That will tell visitors where to go.
- beardyw 4mo agoThe problem is the world is too big. If you could get a rough fix on where your user is and start with a focus on their local area you might get some engagement. Allow just how big it is to be something they might discover.
- pixel_popping 4mo agobug: firefox-esr Linux latest, when I clicked on Wander, it had a grey frame instead of the globe, and it shows only after moving/zooming.
- earth-tattoo 4mo agoThanks. Will look into it.
- smashini 4mo agoReminds me of that buy a pixel website back in the 2000s. Cool concept! blocks are bit small...
- harvey9 3mo agoStill up! https://milliondollarhomepage.com/ https://milliondollarhomepage.com/
- everyone 4mo agoSo, like The Million Dollar Homepage, except that was an original idea that caught peoples imaginations over 20 years ago. This would be cool if it was free and everyone could just draw.. There are plenty sites like that atm tho.
- voodooEntity 4mo agoJust out of curiosity - Whats the plan against well "missuse" in terms of depicting "forbidden/problematic" symbols/Words/....? This is one of the major issues that made the reddit variant a rather big nightmare for mods.
- earth-tattoo 4mo agoThe site has a "report" feature. Maybe at some point I'll integrated openrouter to automatically flag problematic tiles.
- Jayendra06 4mo agosuggestion: add undo shortcuts (ctrl+z) to remove last pixel changes rather than having to undo everything for a small mistake
- earth-tattoo 4mo agoThank you. It's already on the roadmap. Will bump it up.
- Stedag 4mo agoI feel like the minimum price of purchase proportional to the value of contiguous tiles so that vandalism can be mitigated. The most valuable investment people are making initially is with their time so that should be encouraged. It would be nice to have a sort of wayback mode too so you can see all art that hasn't been modded away.
- sightspinner 3mo agoHa, basically like that website from the 90s where advertiser could by single pieces of the grid.