imagine if yourevery block was a chat room
New York, cut into hexagons about a ten-minute walk across.
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The grid
The city, in hexagons.
Each one about 0.57 miles across. A ten-minute walk.
Your block
Every block is a chat room.
The one you’re standing on, and the six around it.
Talk with the people around you.
Ask any block
Ask anywhere.
Hear from people who are there.
Only people on the block can answer. The block confirms the one that stands.
Privacy
Your coordinates never leave your phone.
Your phone works out which block you’re on and sends only that.
Everything posted is gone
after 24 hours.
No archive. No search. No way back.
Then the world.
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blocks on the grid, worldwide
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dara
Rivington & Ludlow · your block
14m
found a set of keys by the bike rack, left them with the deli
best slice around here? settle an argument
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nell
Broadway & Washington Pl
8h
someone left a sofa out front, decent condition honestly
is it worth walking over to Mercury tonight?
doors just opened, maybe fifteen people outside
882a1072cbfffff ← only this is sent
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