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Show HN: Paint the Earth on a live, interactive globe (collaborative art.)

https://earth.tattoo
10•earth-tattoo•2h ago
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.

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whatsupdog•2h ago
Looks 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•2h ago
suggestion: show a heatmap of areas with most activity in the past 24 hours or so. That will tell visitors where to go.
beardyw•46m ago
The 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•41m ago
bug: 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.
smashini•19m ago
Reminds me of that buy a pixel website back in the 2000s. Cool concept! blocks are bit small...
everyone•17m ago
So, 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.

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Show HN: Paint the Earth on a live, interactive globe (collaborative art.)

https://earth.tattoo
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