Flare

A social playground built on a live world map. Users drop flares at their location, discover nearby explorers, and jump into shared mini-games. Runs on a fully self-hosted Supabase stack with realtime channels driving presence and game state.

The Problem

Map apps show you places; social apps show you feeds. Nothing showed you the people exploring around you right now, or gave strangers a playful, low-stakes way to interact in the same physical space.

The Solution

A social playground on a live world map: users drop flares at their location, discover nearby explorers, and jump into shared mini-games together. Presence and game state ride on realtime channels over a fully self-hosted Supabase stack.

What I Built

• →Live world-map presence — see explorers around you in real time
• →Location-anchored flares as a lightweight social signal
• →Shared mini-games running on realtime channels
• →Fully self-hosted Supabase backend in Docker

Highlights

• →Live world-map presence
• →Shared mini-games
• →Self-hosted Supabase backend

Outcome

• →Designed as an app-like experience that can evolve into mobile packaging when needed
• →Realtime architecture built to keep presence and game state in sync as the map fills up