Deep Social · a social network in beta
The map is the home screen
A social network that inverts the feed: your city's map, live, with people and events as pins filtered by shared interests — and one tap from "I see you" to a chat to an actual meetup. Built to compress online discovery into real-world encounters, under radical data minimization.
live a sketch of the idea, computed on this page: the map as the home screen, members roaming, events as pins.
SIMULATION Everything currently populating the app is a simulation, for demonstration purposes only. The members roaming the map, the event attendance, the chat participants — none of it is real user activity. The demo world is deliberately labelled, and it is built to retract itself as real activity arrives. Sign-in works (including a no-account guest mode), and the beta has rough edges.
The idea
Feeds convert discovery into consumption; the bet here is that a live map converts it into meetings. Events are pins you can join with one tap; the people nearby are pins too — if, and only as much as, they choose to be. A QR "handshake" turns a real-world encounter into a connection without either person typing a name. The open question the beta exists to answer is written into the project's own brief: how much discovery utility survives when the usual surveillance machinery is simply refused.
Privacy as structure, not policy
The privacy commitments are implemented in the database rather than promised in a document: no movement history is kept, presence expires in hours, and there are no trackers and no analytics SDKs — ever. What strangers can see of you is a three-step visibility ladder — Ghost, Observer, Beacon — enforced in row-level security, so the server itself refuses to answer questions your setting doesn't allow; friends always see you, strangers see what you chose. New users appear only as anonymous, location-blurred dots; identification is opt-in and invisibility is one tap away.
Status
Feature-complete beta with Luxembourg as the demo territory; iOS build on TestFlight; EU launch is the target. Like everything on this site, it is the work of Jérôme Verony directing AI agents under adversarial verification — and the beta is itself one of the experiment's questions: whether that method sustains professional quality at solo-operator scale.
What this does not claim
- That anyone is using it. Every member, event and movement in the demo is simulated; there are no users and no real activity.
- That the concept is validated. The demo shows what the network would feel like, not that people want it.
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