alt.hn

7/6/2026 at 10:28:32 AM

Show HN: Paint the Earth on a live, interactive globe (collaborative art.)

 https://earth.tattoo

by earth-tattoo

7/6/2026 at 9:34:39 PM

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

by sightspinner

7/6/2026 at 5:52:23 PM

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.

by Stedag

7/6/2026 at 1:05:15 PM

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

by smashini

7/6/2026 at 1:27:25 PM

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.

by voodooEntity

7/6/2026 at 7:13:59 PM

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

by earth-tattoo

7/6/2026 at 10:31:47 AM

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?

by whatsupdog

7/6/2026 at 12:38:26 PM

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.

by beardyw

7/6/2026 at 10:41:02 AM

suggestion: show a heatmap of areas with most activity in the past 24 hours or so. That will tell visitors where to go.

by cadmeup

7/6/2026 at 1:07:12 PM

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.

by everyone

7/6/2026 at 1:31:18 PM

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

by Jayendra06

7/6/2026 at 7:11:07 PM

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

by earth-tattoo

7/6/2026 at 12:43:27 PM

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.

by pixel_popping

7/6/2026 at 7:11:27 PM

Thanks. Will look into it.

by earth-tattoo