17 points pawelwentpawel 37 minutes ago 7 comments

Hi HN!

flat.social is a fun spatial online meeting app for remote teams and communities. It's largely built like a web multiplayer game, and the 3D virtual spaces are highly customisable with elements and activities (I recently added surfing!).

Live demo to try it out: https://app.flat.social/f/demo-flat

Here's a quick demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeinBNqL23s

It's a solo, bootstrapped project built with Three.js, LiveKit and Rapier for physics. I built the first version during the pandemic and posted it here back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31833415

I had a couple of months off this year, so I locked myself in an (almost) jungle house in Brazil and rebuilt it into what I've always wanted it to be.

Would love to hear what you think!

zacharycohn 21 minutes ago | parent

This is super neat.

pawelwentpawel 21 minutes ago | parent

Thank you!

findthebug 15 minutes ago | parent

i call this the end game of social media

mtford 14 minutes ago | parent

Very impressive, well done!

dangond 12 minutes ago | parent

As someone who has seen and used (and disliked) many similar pieces of software, something about this feels much better and natural (I think it's that your avatar is just a circle with your video on it). Great job on nailing the feel of it!

pawelwentpawel 10 minutes ago | parent

Thank you! Getting the vibe right was definitely a challenging part, especially light and colours