The Orion Constellation · Our Mission
The good nights
never happened
on your phone.
We're building the opposite of doomscrolling.
Most apps want your hours. The longer you stay, the more they make, so everything about them is tuned to keep you sitting there, thumb moving, going nowhere.
Explorers is built to lose you — to a rooftop, a trailhead, a friend's show across town. The feed isn't where you're meant to end up. It's just the nudge that gets you out the door.
Nothing you do here is rewarded by scrolling. You earn awards by turning up in person. Go to a show, a run, a dinner with people you barely know yet, and it lands on your profile as a badge. Over a year, your page stops being a highlight reel and starts being a record of what you actually did.
You earn it by showing up
Go to an event and the award is yours. Skip it and it isn't. The whole game rewards one thing: being there.
Your profile does the talking
Your five best awards sit in a banner at the top of your page. It's the first read anyone gets on the kind of life you keep.
Anyone can host
Spot a free Thursday? Post a pickup game, a gallery walk, a 6am run. If people come, you both got a night out of it.
Made for your people
The feed is the friends you follow, out doing things nearby. Less performing for strangers, more "you around this weekend?"
The Cassiopeia Constellation · What It Is
A social app
that pays you
to leave it.
Four parts, one job: get you to something real.
Home
A wall of what your friends have been up to lately, laid out so you actually want to look. Tap a post to see the event behind it and tell people you're coming.
Map
A satellite view of what's on near you. Type your zip, narrow it to tonight or this weekend, and the events show up as pins you can tap.
Content
Short clips shot at the events themselves. Same swipe-up format you already know, except everything in the frame is something you could go to.
Profile
Your page, topped by a banner of your five best awards. The rest fills in with the events you've been to — proof of the year you actually had.
Life
The Lyra Constellation · The Demo
See it
for yourself.
The early build, with stand-in content. Have a poke around.
Working Preview
This is the app
we're actually building.
Everything to the right runs in the browser — the same build from our work sessions, dressed in placeholder posts and people. It's rough on purpose; the point is to feel the shape of the thing before the real data lands.
- Scroll the Home feed of friends' posts
- Tap any post to open the event behind it
- Open the Map for live Boston events
- Check Profile for the top-five awards banner
Explorers
Clips from events
Short vertical video, all of it filmed somewhere real.
Coming laterEvent
Event
The Cygnus Constellation · Contact
Come build
this
with us.
Early user, event host, investor, or just curious — say hi.
Get In Touch
We read everything that comes in.
Want in early? Throwing events worth showing off? Backing the idea, or just wondering what this is? Drop us a line and Wyatt will write back.