auspicious timing: we just built this. and it’s working.
it's called small world. it's designed to serve real life, not the other way around
it's a coordination & connection tool that increases the surface area of serendipity
everyone in the comments is asking how this makes money. the economics are easy now that you need 5 devs instead of 5000
on a $110 server we can handle 1-2 million daily active humans. the team is 5 people and 9 $200 codex + claude subs
small world is an extended trust network, so word of mouth only. if you know me personally or we’ve meaningfully interacted, comment or DM and i’ll send you an invite
sml.world
It feels pretty obvious at this point that someone’s going to make billions building a social app that’s just for friends, no AI slop, no brainrot, calm design, chronological feed and no concept of followers