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https://earth.tattoo

earth-tattoo · 2 days 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.

10 comments

  • whatsupdog · 2 days 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 · 2 days 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 · 2 days 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 · 2 days 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.

          • earth-tattoo · 2 days ago

            Thanks. Will look into it.

          • smashini · 2 days ago

            Reminds me of that buy a pixel website back in the 2000s. Cool concept! blocks are bit small...

          • everyone · 2 days 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.

            • voodooEntity · 2 days ago

              Just out of curiosity - Whats the plan against well "missuse" in terms of depicting "forbidden/problematic" symbols/Words/....?

              This is one of the major issues that made the reddit variant a rather big nightmare for mods.

              • earth-tattoo · 2 days ago

                The site has a "report" feature. Maybe at some point I'll integrated openrouter to automatically flag problematic tiles.

              • Jayendra06 · 2 days ago

                suggestion: add undo shortcuts (ctrl+z) to remove last pixel changes rather than having to undo everything for a small mistake

                • earth-tattoo · 2 days ago

                  Thank you. It's already on the roadmap. Will bump it up.

                • Stedag · 2 days ago

                  I feel like the minimum price of purchase proportional to the value of contiguous tiles so that vandalism can be mitigated. The most valuable investment people are making initially is with their time so that should be encouraged.

                  It would be nice to have a sort of wayback mode too so you can see all art that hasn't been modded away.

                  • sightspinner · 1 days ago

                    Ha, basically like that website from the 90s where advertiser could by single pieces of the grid.